Yahoo frames - Pulse, Search Highlights, Small Business, etc

[markchulinusa]

If you want to get rid of -correction: hide some of the Yahoo frames on the main page, then try these filters:

yahoo.com#div(class=minimantle)
-- gets rid of "Small Business" and "Featured Services"

yahoo.com#div(class=md)(id=mantle2)
-- "Inside Yahoo! Small Business"

yahoo.com#div(class=md)(id=pulse)
-- "Pulse - What Yahoos Are Into"

yahoo.com#div(class=md)(id=popsearch)
-- "Today's Search Highlights"

yahoo.com#div(class=md)(id=footer)
-- "Advertise with Us | Search Marketing"


Reasons I have posted this:
I like a cleaner main page, so I wanted to get rid of everything that I never use. I tried searching the forum for an answer, but could not find it (I admit it - I am a newbie when it comes to the "/d+\.gif$/" stuff). Hence, I have posted my findings, thinking that others out there might also want a cleaner Yahoo main page.

If this is common knowledge or a repeat of another topic, then please link the topic that explains how to get rid of items/frames that do not show up when you right-click it.

Please let me know if these filters affect anything outside of the intended areas.

Happy Web Surfing!


P.S. If you want to know how I found my solution, then feel free to post the request/reply.

[Adblock Plus Fan]

P.S. If you want to know how I found my solution, then feel free to post the request/reply.

Good job. *raise hand*
How did you find this solution?

[rick752]

Good job. *raise hand*
How did you find this solution?

He just blocked those elements, Fan ... nothing more. EHH shows them.

[Adblock Plus Fan]

Yes well, I was only asking just in case he used something else, then we could always point at that program if he didn't know about it

[markchulinusa]

rick752 is right, this newbie did not do anything new.

I just figured out that 1) you could get rid of some of the frames even though they don't show up on right-click, 2) EasyElement had a filter "yahoo.com#div(something)" that had gotten rid of one such Yahoo frame, 3) I opened the page source, 4) did a search for what I wanted gone, like "pulse", 5) copied as best I could the "yahoo.com#etc..." with a little modification and added it to the filter list. It was a little bit of trial and error before I figured it out.

From another post by rick752, this method I copied does not stop the browser from downloading these elements, just hiding it on the browser. I would like to learn more about this.

Is there a post where I can learn these command symbols? Or does EHH make it redundant?

Is there a glossary for some of the terms? I had a little trouble figuring out what EHH means. I am assuming that there are other acronyms. A glossary would be nice, even for obvious ones like ABP -Remember, newbie here. Which leads to my next question:

Is there a READ THIS FIRST post that would help a newbie like me find the answers to some of the above questions? I read "Problems with Adblock Plus? Please read this first" http://adblockplus.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=925 but that does not lead to more links that can educate a newbie, without having to wade through a few dozen topics first.

[Adblock Plus Fan]

I just figured out that 1) you could get rid of some of the frames even though they don't show up on right-click, 2) EasyElement had a filter "yahoo.com#div(something)" that had gotten rid of one such Yahoo frame, 3) I opened the page source, 4) did a search for what I wanted gone, like "pulse", 5) copied as best I could the "yahoo.com#etc..." with a little modification and added it to the filter list. It was a little bit of trial and error before I figured it out.

Page source? That's pretty hardcore...
I used to do the same, except I used code examples from rick, Stupid Head and the others from the old threads for templates, and instead of page source I used DOM Inspector which is pretty nifty because it automatically pictures the tree structure for you and you can blink each element to make sure that's the one you want. But even then I had crapton of errors before I could generate a code though luck, I can only imagine how difficult it is with only page source

From another post by rick752, this method I copied does not stop the browser from downloading these elements, just hiding it on the browser. I would like to learn more about this.

That is very specific, I'm not sure if there's more to learn about that.
Normal codes like this: "domain.com/banner.jpg"
will save your bandwidth.
Codes like these: "domain.com#div" or "domain.com##div"
are still downloaded, like you said. That's all there is to it I think.

Is there a post where I can learn these command symbols? Or does EHH make it redundant?

<_< not sure, maybe here: http://adblockplus.org/en/filters#elemhide_basic
Anyway EHH is Element Hiding Helper: http://adblockplus.org/en/elemhidehelper
It pretty much makes most of your steps above redundant.
If you know how to navigate a page source, using EHH should be easy pie for you

EDIT: Using EHH I can highly recommend you to use the 'W', 'N' and 'V' buttons. W and N are for zooming in and out to more easily pick the element you want. V is so you can see attributes of an element. For example when the red selection frame covers what you want to hide, you can use V to check the elements attributes, then if things don't look right, you can try W and N to enlarge or shrink the red selection frame slightly and then use V again to see if hiding is viable.

I'm not sure about the rest.

[rick752]

@markchulinusa

Here's a couple of posts on my forum that might help. These were made before EHH was invented and we were using the Firebug extension to find the elements. I actually still use it because you can see all the html code while you are searching for the elements ... EHH is not quite as friendly as far as looking through the code itself. But Firebug does not automatically convert the code to "ABP usable" code .... you would have to do that yourself.

But these posts may give you an idea how element-hiding works in ABP:
http://www.richsterling.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=557
http://www.richsterling.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=707

[markchulinusa]

Thanks for enlightenment. I will definitely read those links.