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lorenb
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 Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2003 2:50 pm Post subject: MozillaFirebird / Ad Blocking |
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I'm trying to get ad blocking working in Mozilla Firebird. I followed the instructions at http://texturizer.net/firebird/tips.html#lay_adblocking and put their userContent.css into /home/lorenb/.phoenix/default/yi24en27.slt/chrome
It doesn't work though, I still see all the ads. I'm not sure what the problem is. I just re-installed my system (due a GCC upgrade gone horribly wrong) but this had been working just fine previously.
Anyone have any ideas on how to make this work? |
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Decibels
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| Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2003 3:44 pm Post subject: |
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I don't use Firebird much, but found it in:
Toolbar at top, goto:
Tools/Options, then click on Web Features. Put a check mark in Block Popup Windows.
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lorenb
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| Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2003 3:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Decibels wrote: | I don't use Firebird much, but found it in:
Toolbar at top, goto:
Tools/Options, then click on Web Features. Put a check mark in Block Popup Windows. |
That's pop-up window blocking, which is on by default. I'm talking about blocking banner ads, flash advertisements and what not. I did have it working fine and it was great. |
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Decibels
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Oh, sorry. That is usually what I consider AD's. Other ads I usually have a mental block to just ignore them and read only what I want to.
Put a AD blocker on Windows once, but got tired of always having to add them to the list to block, seemed more trouble then the AD's.
I just found the content you were mentioning earlier and says it blocks 99%.
How bout this though. Try this: (AdBlock 0.3)
http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=3270
Says available for Mozilla Firebird.
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lorenb
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| Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2003 4:15 pm Post subject: |
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The userContent.css thing does block 99% of the ads, it was great, that's why I want it back 
By the way, it should work in any Mozilla based browser from what I understand, it's not firebird specific.
I'm re-emerging mozilla-firebird-cvs right now to see if that helps. If not, I'll check out that AdBlock. Thanks. |
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syscrash
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| Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2003 4:16 pm Post subject: |
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| lorenb wrote: | The userContent.css thing does block 99% of the ads, it was great, that's why I want it back
By the way, it should work in any Mozilla based browser from what I understand, it's not firebird specific.
I'm re-emerging mozilla-firebird-cvs right now to see if that helps. If not, I'll check out that AdBlock. Thanks. |
Thanks for the original link lol, it works great for me |
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xlyz
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| Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2003 5:23 pm Post subject: Re: MozillaFirebird / Ad Blocking |
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| lorenb wrote: | I'm trying to get ad blocking working in Mozilla Firebird. I followed the instructions at http://texturizer.net/firebird/tips.html#lay_adblocking and put their userContent.css into /home/lorenb/.phoenix/default/yi24en27.slt/chrome
It doesn't work though, I still see all the ads. I'm not sure what the problem is. I just re-installed my system (due a GCC upgrade gone horribly wrong) but this had been working just fine previously.
Anyone have any ideas on how to make this work? |
why don't you just use the "block images from this server" function? in 1 or 2 weeks you will have blocked mostly if not all of the adv server of the sites you vist more often |
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lorenb
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| Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2003 5:37 pm Post subject: Re: MozillaFirebird / Ad Blocking |
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| xlyz wrote: | | why don't you just use the "block images from this server" function? in 1 or 2 weeks you will have blocked mostly if not all of the adv server of the sites you vist more often |
The userContent.css method had worked for me for many months without issue. It wasn't a problem until I had to re-install my system yesterday. |
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lorenb
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| Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2003 6:13 pm Post subject: |
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I found out what the problem was. There was something about the way I cut/paste the code into userContent.css that Firebird didn't like.
I re-created the file and it works fine once again. Woo hoo! |
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lorenb
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I found out what the problem was. There was something about the way I cut/paste the code into userContent.css that Firebird didn't like.
I re-created the file and it works fine once again. Woo hoo! |
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st. anger
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| Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2003 6:34 pm Post subject: |
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| This should be moved to Documentation, tips and tricks, this an awesome tip! |
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