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Adblock Plus - Today's Browser Tip
by Jordan Running Jan 25th 2006 at 8:00AM
Adblock is an excellent
Firefox extension but has its failings. Among my Adblock pet peeves are its lack of a whitelist and general absence of
options. Adblock
Plus is an extension that tries to succeed where Adblock does not. It (as of version 0.6) is a complete rewrite of
Adblock that does everything its successor does but adds whitelisting, preferences to control how it behaves, and a
sidebar that will show you all of the objects on a page and let you choose what to block.
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wormeyman said 8:36AM on 1-25-2006
Adblock plus 0.6 is considered a fork and is actually the 2nd adblock plus and should more appropriately be called adblock plus-light for it's small footprint/missing features.
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Zak said 9:08AM on 1-25-2006
Adblock Plus is even better when you install the Adblock Filterset.G Updater extension.
"This extension automatically downloads the latest version of Filterset.G every 4-7 days. Filterset.G is an excellent set of filters maintained by G for Adblock that blocks most ads on the internet."
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=1136
Works great!
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Tom said 3:47PM on 1-25-2006
Glad to see you are reccomending tbis, I found it a few weeks back, and it is definately a plus over adblock.
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Brian Pipa said 4:13PM on 1-25-2006
I upgraded to the latest version of AdBlock last night and the new version has lots more features - including whitelists.
Brian
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