[PLUG] Minor Issue: Firefox-1.5 No Longer Blocks PopUp Ads

Dale Zeutenhorst dale at zeutenhorst.com
Sun Feb 12 03:01:32 UTC 2006


Rich Shepard wrote:

>   I wonder if anyone else has found that the upgrade from 
> Firefox-1.0.7 to
> -1.5 has changed the was the ad block extension works. Or, is it 
> something
> here that I lost?
>
>   In 1.0.x versions I had the ad block extension in place and once I had
> marked the frames/images in the sites I regularly visited, they no longer
> appeared. Now it appears that the blocking is momentary at best. I have
> popups blocked in the preferences as well as having installed the proper
> version of the extension.
>
> Suggestions welcome,
>
> Rich
>
Both the Windows and Linux versions seem to working OK for me. I find 
that many ads seem to be coming from new domains at yahoo though.





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