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Anyone else having "adblock" Firefox problems?
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Anyone else having "adblock" Firefox problems?
May 16, 2014 at 10:41 am (This post was last modified: May 16, 2014 at 11:11 am by Silver.)
I have ads galore, and my filters are not blocking them on Firefox.

Is this happening to anyone else?

Anyone good with computers know how to fix this? Right clicking over the content to add it to the filter is not an available option, it seems.
The only thing that fixed the problem was uninstalling and then reinstalling Firefox.
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RE: Anyone else having "adblock" Firefox problems?
May 16, 2014 at 11:46 am
My adblock plus is working as it always has... damn well!
Check your filter subscriptions. I only have one, EasyList. I think it's updated every day.
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RE: Anyone else having "adblock" Firefox problems?
May 17, 2014 at 4:58 am
I use two pieces of software for browsing:

1. Hotspot Shield-- allows me to spoof my location so I can watch free station content in England and the US, and gets by Korean anti-porn laws.

2. Adblock Plus-- really effectively shuts down almost all popups and ads.
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RE: Anyone else having "adblock" Firefox problems?
May 17, 2014 at 7:30 am
(May 16, 2014 at 10:41 am)Kitanetos Wrote: Anyone good with computers know how to fix this?

Yeah.

Use Chrome.
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RE: Anyone else having "adblock" Firefox problems?
May 17, 2014 at 12:12 pm
^This.
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RE: Anyone else having "adblock" Firefox problems?
May 17, 2014 at 12:23 pm
Chrome has HTTP Switchboard. It's like the Iron Curtain separating me from bad web things.
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RE: Anyone else having "adblock" Firefox problems?
May 20, 2014 at 7:56 am
(May 17, 2014 at 7:30 am)Napoléon Wrote:
(May 16, 2014 at 10:41 am)Kitanetos Wrote: Anyone good with computers know how to fix this?

Yeah.

Use Chrome.

Use Chromium, it doesn't send your every click & search back to the Google Mothership.

Personally, I stick with Firefox because Chrome / Chromium only has about 1/2 of the extensions I use.
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RE: Anyone else having "adblock" Firefox problems?
May 20, 2014 at 1:23 pm
Ad Blocking is resource intensive. You will get lowered performance. Especially on machines that are anemic for both processing time and memory.

Here is a posting at Mozilla (the guys who make motherfucking browsers) that looks at the performance of ad blocking:
https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/201...ory-usage/

Plain and simple – nothing is for free. When you are blocking domains off of an HTML page that is being parsed as data comes in, you will have to check each sub- element against a very large table. This means that for increasing complexity pages, you'll be spending an increasing amount of time to check, parse, reparse, and manipulate the DOM while also traversing a large table in memory.
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RE: Anyone else having "adblock" Firefox problems?
May 20, 2014 at 1:34 pm
My Ad-Block is working fine.

Maybe try reinstalling?
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RE: Anyone else having "adblock" Firefox problems?
May 20, 2014 at 1:38 pm
I did have to reinstall it.

Also, I am not a fan of Chrome because it crashes on me too much.
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