1) I'm not familiar with this
##airbus.com format of the old adblock.
But I can say that it is useless to import that format as it is, the first 6 items on your list will invoke Element Hiding Rules which will have zero practical effect the way they are now.
If you can explain to me what these "##" codes did in your original Adblock, I can probably emulate them for ABP. (or some of the other guys can probably help you with that
)
The rest can be implemented just fine, though the second last of your list is a little too short. I'm talking about the
*poker* filter which only has 5 characters(wildcards doesn't count), it is recommended that you use filters which are at least 8 characters long for optimal performance, specifically it should be 8 unbroken characters.
Examples:
http:*
.googlesyndication.* =Fast filter
http://*
.doubleclick.* =Fast filter
http://adimage* =Fast filter
http://common.ziffdavisinternet.com/*.js =Fast filter
http://*i.a.*cnn*.net*
/312x70.gif =Fast filter
http://*abc*def*ghi*jkl*mn.*com* =Slow filter
http://*adblock* =Slow filter
http:*.goog*les*yndi*cat*ion.* =Slow filter
The first 5 examples are fast filters because they each have an uninterrupted sequence of 8 characters(marked red). So filters with at least 8 characters in a row is recommended, if all your filters are like this you could have even Hundreds of them and they wouldn't slow down your computer at all.
As for the importing, it can be done very easily. First make a .txt file, name doesn't matter.
At the beginning of the file write this code:
Then underneath that, just paste your filters as they are now like this:
Code: Select all
[Adblock]
http:*.googlesyndication.*
http://*.doubleclick.*
http://*intellitxt.com*
http://ad.doubleclick.net*
http://ad.firstadsolution.com*
http://ad01.mediacorpsingapore.com*
http://adimage*
http://adimg.com.com/*
http://adlog.com.com*
http://admanager.cyberone.com*
http://www.youtube.com*
http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/images/*/312x70.gif
http://survey.novatris.com*
http://common.ziffdavisinternet.com/*.js
http://*.foreseeresults.com/*
http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/images/time/186x70b.gif
http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/story/misc/top.quicken.jpg
http://*/slide.js
http://controller.foreseeresults.com/*
*poker*
http://www.flirt4free.com/*
(I still recommend you to replace the *poker* filter)
After you saved the txt file, go to ABP preferences, There should be a menu called 'Filters' in the upper left corner, and under that menu is the import filter function, then you select the txt file, and choose to either overwrite or append to your current list.
Cad wrote:2)If I'm able to import my own list, which folder will my own list be kept? (so that I can edit it later)
It will not have any specific folder, all the filters you created/imported will be listed either under Whitelist, Blacklist or Element Hiding Rule.
All the filters you created/imported will be available for editing/deleting.
Cad wrote:3)How many subscriptions can one have? if you have more than 1 subscription will it slow down FF? I currently have:
1)Easylist (US)
2)Cedrics (Deu)
3)Liste (FR) + Easylist
You can have as many as you want. But it's true that more subscriptions will make FF slower, but not necessarily by any significant amount.
Though with your current setup you have Easylist twice, this isn't good I think. Just delete your stand alone "
1)Easylist (US)" and the other two should do the same job just fine.
Liste FR is very short and seems to be optimized to be used alongside Easylist, so those two as combinations are guaranteed to be fine.
I don't have any tool to test their performances but in my experience having 2 or 3 of the optimized lists isn't all that different from having just 1. In this case you basically have 2 (3rd is so small and insignificant), so I think you'll be fine.
Cad wrote:4)FF and AdblockPlus are doing a great job in blocking pop-ups/ads, however there are some pop-ups which are bundled with a download link button, e.g. when you go to certain site to download some files and you are forced to click on the "download" button in order to activate the download process and this is when the bundled pop-ups will pop open a new FF window with ads! Is there anything I can do about this?
I have experienced this too, unfortunately I haven't found any real solution either.
Some of the sites allow you to "right-click, save as.." to avoid the popups. This patch solution only works for some sites tough.
For now, I've found out I can live with it with this temporary solution:
If the popup is from Partypoker.com, I add these two codes to ABP:
Then I only get an empty white window popup that loads instantly.
But I remember Wladimir posted a solution here in this thred:
http://adblockplus.org/forum/viewtopic. ... 0577#10577
Though it requires an extension called GreaseMonkey to work. (I haven't tried it yet)
, whereas with AdblockPlus I've to learn from the start again 
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, it's in .ini format (patterns.ini), no wonder I couldn't find it yesterday (I kept looking for .txt extention 
)
