Never look at an advertisement in your web browser again

What if similar to virus definitions, someone kept an exhaustively maintained list of advertising servers on the net, and you could use this list to exclude the ads from appearing in your browser? Sounds great – which it is. To get this going, first make sure you’re using the latest version of the Firefox web browser (which I won’t link to today – the recent release of version 1.0 has left their webservers completely overwhelmed – no sense pouring gas on the fire). Once you have Firefox running, Use the tools menu to install new extensions. Install the Adblock extension. Out of the box it will block and extensive % of the ads you see. Then head on over to this geocities site, read the instructions.txt file, and install the appropriate definitions file. While that sounds complex it’s actually really easy and will work absolute wonders on your browsing experience.

I’ll make the standard comment about how most of the websites you’re visiting rely on those ads to pay their bills, so follow your own conscience. Me, I installed it, and the flashblocking extension as well. This would be absolutely perfect if they could autoupdate the definitions files in the same way

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  1. Jesse says:
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    I am not happy so far with firefox. I think it gives up too easily. I can’t connect to a number of sites. I instantly get a “connection refused” message when I try to go to that extentions page. I also get it from Gmail. It happened somewhere else last night, I dont remember where. The main page loaded, but none of the links would work. I can get to Gmail fine through Safari.

    Also, global spellcheck is not available, so I have to think for myself.

    It is noticeably faster than Safari though. But Safari is plenty fast already. I think I’m going back.

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  2. dlh says:
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    safari is good, firefox is much better though. You cant get to the extensions page because all geeks on earth are in the midst of installing 1.0 which just came out. Wait a few days and try again.

    Global spellcheck and just about every other feature you can imagine is available in extensions. Firefox is all about extensions.

    Your gmail problem seems unique to you, as is your connection refused issue, or at least, I have encountered no other mention of it including on the mozillazine and developer blog.

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