Firefox 3.5.7 and Adblock Plus

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Hi –

Downloaded Adblock Plus (1.1.3) and when I went to Tools/Add-Ons, I see it’s not compatible with Ff 3.5.7. So, I uninstall, or should say I TRY to uninstall. After Firefox is restarted, it still s shows in Extensions with legend “this add-on will be uninstalled when Firefox is restarted.”

Questions:
1) how to unstall it

2) is it known when it will be compatible with Ff 3.5.7?

thank you all.

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Hi –

Downloaded Adblock Plus (1.1.3) and when I went to Tools/Add-Ons, I see it’s not compatible with Ff 3.5.7.  So, I uninstall, or should say I TRY to uninstall.  After Firefox is restarted, it still s shows in Extensions with legend “this add-on will be uninstalled when Firefox is restarted.”

Questions:
1) how to unstall it

2) is it known when it will be compatible with Ff 3.5.7?

thank you all.

I think you are mistaken. I have Adblock Plus 1.1.3 working with Firefox 3.5.7 and the Adblock Plus page here says “Works with Firefox: 3.0.12 – 3.7a1pre” which seems to include 3.5.7 in the range of versions it works with.

Ian

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I’m running Adblock Plus 1.1.3 on Firefox 3.5.7 on three PC’s and have not seen nor noticed any compatibility issues. Did your download come directly from the Mozilla web site?

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Thank you, and Ian. I had downloaded Adblock Plus from the Mozilla web site. Today, I downloaded it from Tools/Add-ons, “browse all” and it loaded fine. (It does say, when clicking on Extensions, “Ads were yesterday.” Don’t know what that means.)

Now– since I had royally messed up my Adblock settings, I want to have a clean start. I removed my “adblockplus” directory in my [Mozilla/Firefox]user profile. Then I went to about:config and reset [user] preferences starting with ‘extensions:adblockplus.”

I’ve restarted the PC & Firefox several times but still no “success” – – meaning no ads are shown. . Bottom line: how do I undo all my preferences?

Thank you!

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Close Firefox, go to your profile folder
In that folder delete extensions.cache, extensions.rdf, extensions.ini and compatibility.ini
When you restart Firefox you can try re-installing Adblock Plus. If one of those 4 files is corrupt it can cause problems installing and uninstalling add-ons.

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Hi, agaian –

I think I discovered what was wrong: in Tools/Options/Content, the “Load Images Automatically” was unchecked….

But, it would be good to know how to undo Adblock choices…..

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Hi, agaian –

I think I discovered what was wrong: in Tools/Options/Content, the “Load Images Automatically” was unchecked….

But, it would be good to know how to undo Adblock choices…..

Not sure what you mean – perhaps Adblock has it’s own configuration/preferences settings (right click on the Adblock Plus Icon).
Use this – not Firefox configuration/options.

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Thank you, TerryB.

I had first tried to configure Adblock settings, to no avail. Then, when I allowed image to load, all was well. It seems that overrides other settings???

I must admit that I find working with Adblock a mystery…

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I must admit that I find working with Adblock a mystery…

There is a forum specifically geared to questions regarding performance of ABP which you might find helpful.

Adblock Plus forum

Hey Jude

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There is a forum specifically geared to questions regarding performance of ABP which you might find helpful.

Adblock Plus forum

Hey Jude

Thank you. I had looked at the site but not carefully enough. I really have to sit down and understand what the program is about.
Appreciate your response!

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Thank you. I had looked at the site but not carefully enough. I really have to sit down and understand what the program is about.
Appreciate your response!

If you go to Tools> Add-ons> Adblock Plus> Options> Filters> Add Filter Subscription> check EasyList USA if you are in the US and click Subscribe> Apply> Ok and you should be all set. Try that and see what happens.

If you aren’t in the USA then there are other options.

Hey Jude

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