Best ad blocker add-on for Firefox?

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Lately I am finding that many pages I normally visit have become slow to load. 20 seconds to log on to Facebook and My Yahoo. These are not the only examples. I am using Firefox 19.0.1 which I recently fresh installed after I uninstalled Firefox 19.0.0. My internet connection is 15 Meg cable and my download speeds are good. I have done full scans with my antivirus, Malwarebytes, SuperAntispyware and Emisoft Antimalware and they all found nothing.

I currently use an old proxy server that helps to bock ads and customize the page called Proxomitron. The filters set I use is old. I am looking for an add on to help block some of the off site stuff that I believe may be causing the slow down.

My PC is a little over 2 years old, but at the time was a near top of the line unit.

Can anyone make any suggestions or suggest an add on that might speed up page loads?

Thanks

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I use Addblock Plus and then when I use Internet Explorer I wonder why it’s slow and has all the junk around the edges!

cheers, Paul

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Thanks, heard of that one before, but when I put ad blocker into the add ons search window it did not come up. Putting in Addblock Plus did bring it up. I will give it a try. Thanks

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@ldb
Run Adblock Plus with these TWO filter lists: EasyList and Fanboy’s list.
I found that tip a while ago in a MozillaZine thread and haven’t seen any ads since I did install the second list.

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+1 for AdBlock Plus. I have it installed on Firefox and Chrome and wouldn’t surf without it.

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AdBlock Plus. You can certainly try the others, serially, but I think you’ll find Adblock to be the best and easiest to use and customize for different sites. Use the default subscription for your location.

I also use Ghostery to block all the bugs, widgets, trackers, whatever, that are used – several thousand of them. By default, I enable disqus, and a few Googly things on a few select sites. If you’re using Facebook and similar sites, there are a number of items you’ll have to unblock – it may take a bit of fiddling to figure out which ones.

I don’t know from using a proxy (having rarely done so) but consider that you are adding another hop, with attendant latency, congestion, and bufferbloat.

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+1 for Adblock Plus. I also use Ghostery with virtually no ill-effect.

While I’m on the subject….

I also use Ghostery to block all the bugs, widgets, trackers, whatever, that are used – several thousand of them. By default, I enable disqus, and a few Googly things on a few select sites. If you’re using Facebook and similar sites, there are a number of items you’ll have to unblock – it may take a bit of fiddling to figure out which ones.

…..I find that Facebook works fine unless you want to play games, in which case you can click the Ghostery icon and select Pause blocking. Or you can make it “sticky” by selecting Whitelist domain.

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In addition to AdBlock Plus, when using Chrome as my browser, I also use an extension called ScriptSafe for additional protection. When using Firefox, I use the NoScript extension to accomplish the same thing.

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So far, so good with ABP. I do not miss my proxy server one. I will check into adding those lists later. Thanks

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Can’t resist adding my vote for AdBlock Plus! Used it for years and love it.

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I’ll add my vote for AdBloc Plus. I’ve been using it for years with Firefox. I always update Firefpx to the most current version. Never had any problems with this combination. Wouldn’t be without it.

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Abine DoNotTrackPlus, NoScript and Ghostery. This combo doesn’t get you blocked from sites which don’t like AdBlock.

-- rc primak

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I recommend AdBlock Plus (ABP) and DoNotTrack (DNTMe), which I have been using for a long time.
As I understand it, they do quite different things and can be used together.
Here is my naive question: by adding Ghostery, would I cause these 3 tools to get in each others’ way and make my machine slower?
Thanks.

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I use Adblock Plus and Ghostery.

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I use Avast as my Antivirus suite and so use their Adblock service which is(ADBlock PLus). It works seamlessly for me on my AMD 64 Windows 7 machine. However be sure to remove Adblock Plus addon as AdBlock Plus will not allow the Avast version to run at the same time. But why would you want that anyway? As a side note for this reason I am liking Avast all that much more. I recently uninstalled MSE and installed Avast as some things were not getting reconnized by MSE even though they were not of great severity. Plus Avast offers so much more in the way of information on what it is doing. MSE just seemed to sit there and do nothing. I like the feedback Avast offers. The nice cloud based data base allows you to choose which programs, Ads etc you wish to allow as well.

Jim

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I see that everybody seems to be sold on AdBlock Plus which I also was sold on from the beginning; but with the ads on the right side of Outlook and G-Mail inboxes cutting my screens short I disabled AdBlock Plus and downloaded Webmail Ad Blocker 3.9.1 and the ads are gone, screen if full, and ads are being blocked as well….
Try it, it has impressed me and that’s not easy….. You’ll like it a lot …….. Cheers to you all……

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I see that everybody seems to be sold on AdBlock Plus which I also was sold on from the beginning; but with the ads on the right side of Outlook and G-Mail inboxes cutting my screens short I disabled AdBlock Plus and downloaded Webmail Ad Blocker 3.9.1 and the ads are gone, screen if full, and ads are being blocked as well….
Try it, it has impressed me and that’s not easy….. You’ll like it a lot …….. Cheers to you all……

Have you tried them together?
Also AB+ can be configured to eliminate them.
I use http://adblockplus.org/en/elemhidehelper to assist with that chore.

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Also use AdBlock Plus. One note when using this AND using the Shutterfly photo site. I had to disable ADB+ when using the Shutterfly “projects” function. Bob

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I too, use AdBlock Plus at home. Wonderful software. Many of the ads aren’t very friendly and blinking and distracting.
At work, we must use IE. I haven’t found any way to block ads there – any ideas? The only thing I’ve been able to do is list some sites manually in the restricted list.

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I use Firefox on Windows XP with only 512MB RAM and a single-core Pentium P4M processor. Avast is too big a program, and runs too many background processes, for this configuration.

I use the Comodo Firewall (no Comodo antivirus), MSE-4 and Comodo’s DNS Service to reduce issues with unwanted ads. That’s in addition to the Firefox add-ons. This configuration remains fast and secure, with little bother from ads and browser hijacking. Again, my Firefox add-ons are Ghostery, NoScript and DoNotTrackMe.

-- rc primak

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The best way I’ve found to speed up page loading is disable all non essential apps, extensions and add ons. I’m running a 13 yo Athlon IV 975mhz, 512mb Ram w/ literally 1000’s of hrs of use and the only app I”ll allow to run full time is Ad Blocker pro. 1 more tip, Chrome really does load and surf faster than FF (b4 I get tarred and feathered, I’ve been a loyal Netscape, FF user, beta tester etc for 15 years and finally couldn’t take the slow speeds and bugs in the last year of FF. I know Chrome seems to be a memory hog but it simply works better on this dinosaur) Oh 1 more thing, don’t even say IE in my presence

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And remember, some sites depend on add revenue. I think this site probably does. That is why I have it White-listed.

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