Okay, I installed adblockplus when I first started using Firefox a few months ago, and it was great from the start: no ads, faster page loads, exactly what I wanted, and it did it all automatically. I'm not much of a techie in some ways, so to be honest, the whole filters & rules thing in prefs is a bit mystifying, and there are no thorough explanations.
A couple of days ago, it just stopped working--just like that. Says it's enabled, but doesn't block a single ad on any page. I tried uninstalling & reinstalling--twice--and everything else I could think of, but it seems my only option is to block each and every ad on each and every page by hand in the prefs--assuming I could even figure out how for most of them. What's up? Did the extension just stop being automatic? Is there any way to get back what I had & loved? If I have to work that hard to make this work, then it's not really worth it to me, but I'd miss it...
Any help would be appreciated.
oh--for info purposes: I'm on an iBook G3 with OS X 10.3.9, Firefox v. 2.0.0.1
abp isn't working automatically
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Wladimir Palant
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literaterose
and that's what I just don't understand. What are "filter subscriptions" and where would I find them? When I open the prefs window, I don't see anything that says that. Here's what I see:
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(Along the top): Filter Rule/ Enabled/ Hits
Add filter...
Exception Rules
@@|http://www.mozilla.org/
Advertisement Filters
*/adbanner/*
*/advertisements/*
http://*.adserver.example.com/* http://ad.doubleclick.net/adi/N1942.yah ... 2084464290?
http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12flg0o1f/M ... yahoo.com/
http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12h0jqont/M ... eardiploma
http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/ ... hd_l_1.gif
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That is *exactly* what I see: nothing more, nothing less. (Well, except the design elements: dividers, arrows, etc., which I can't replicate w/copy & paste.) That's what's there as of a fresh installation, with me doing no new settings, tweaking, etc.
I don't know, from your reply what I'm supposed to look for, or what to do if/when I find it. Please remember: I'm an end user, not a programmer or the kind of person who plays with code or other internal workings of a program. I assume a "preferences" box is going to be straightforward, with settings that I can understand and adjust as needed. I don't understand this, and more importantly.... why do I have to do this now, when I didn't have to for months after the original install? Did Adblock change, and this is the result of an autoupdate?
I'd love actual help with this...or I guess it's back to ad-loaded pages until I find another app that works...
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(Along the top): Filter Rule/ Enabled/ Hits
Add filter...
Exception Rules
@@|http://www.mozilla.org/
Advertisement Filters
*/adbanner/*
*/advertisements/*
http://*.adserver.example.com/* http://ad.doubleclick.net/adi/N1942.yah ... 2084464290?
http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12flg0o1f/M ... yahoo.com/
http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12h0jqont/M ... eardiploma
http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/ ... hd_l_1.gif
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That is *exactly* what I see: nothing more, nothing less. (Well, except the design elements: dividers, arrows, etc., which I can't replicate w/copy & paste.) That's what's there as of a fresh installation, with me doing no new settings, tweaking, etc.
I don't know, from your reply what I'm supposed to look for, or what to do if/when I find it. Please remember: I'm an end user, not a programmer or the kind of person who plays with code or other internal workings of a program. I assume a "preferences" box is going to be straightforward, with settings that I can understand and adjust as needed. I don't understand this, and more importantly.... why do I have to do this now, when I didn't have to for months after the original install? Did Adblock change, and this is the result of an autoupdate?
I'd love actual help with this...or I guess it's back to ad-loaded pages until I find another app that works...
In the same window at the top should be menus that say
Filters|options|help
Under Filters second option under add filter... is add filter subscription... That is where the subscriptions are located. After clicking on that a new window should open and you use the drop down arrow to select a subscription. Or you can visit the subscriptions list. Click on which ever sub you want and it should auto install.
All this assumes you are using the latest ABP.
Edit: PS my favorite one is [url=abp://subscribe/?location=http%3A%2F%2Feasylist.adblockplus.org%2Fadblock_rick752.txt&title=EasyList]Rick's Easylist[/url] Click that for auto install.
Filters|options|help
Under Filters second option under add filter... is add filter subscription... That is where the subscriptions are located. After clicking on that a new window should open and you use the drop down arrow to select a subscription. Or you can visit the subscriptions list. Click on which ever sub you want and it should auto install.
All this assumes you are using the latest ABP.
Edit: PS my favorite one is [url=abp://subscribe/?location=http%3A%2F%2Feasylist.adblockplus.org%2Fadblock_rick752.txt&title=EasyList]Rick's Easylist[/url] Click that for auto install.
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literaterose
yes! IceDogg, thank you! That's exactly the kind of simple instruction I needed--it's done, and now it's all working perfectly!
Believe it or not, I used to be a tech writer (back in the bad old days of printed manuals) and it was all about explaining how-to for the folks who have no tech background at all. On some things, I'm great, but in situations like this, I just need a knowledgeable person who can be clear without being condescending: you succeed admirably. Kudos!
Believe it or not, I used to be a tech writer (back in the bad old days of printed manuals) and it was all about explaining how-to for the folks who have no tech background at all. On some things, I'm great, but in situations like this, I just need a knowledgeable person who can be clear without being condescending: you succeed admirably. Kudos!
Thanks, I'm glad I could help.
We (ones that are familiar with ABP) sometimes forget that others might need more of a step by step explanation. I'm guilty myself sometimes.
PS I looked in the FAQ's and I didn't see a walk through for this either. Maybe it should be added? A simple how to add a subscription or something similar? Fact I didn't see much about subscriptions in the FAQ at all. I don't think that's been updated much since the added feature of being able to subscribe to filtersets. Just a thought.
We (ones that are familiar with ABP) sometimes forget that others might need more of a step by step explanation. I'm guilty myself sometimes.
PS I looked in the FAQ's and I didn't see a walk through for this either. Maybe it should be added? A simple how to add a subscription or something similar? Fact I didn't see much about subscriptions in the FAQ at all. I don't think that's been updated much since the added feature of being able to subscribe to filtersets. Just a thought.