Computer FAQs & Tips

Browsing on internet could get frustrating sometimes when there are heavy load of ads on the website you are visiting. If you are on a slow speed connection, you'd just close the site go to an alternative one. However you might want to get some interesting information of that site, so you just have to put up with it! bad move..!

Not anymore..., if you are using Firefox "the web browser legend", you can now block a certain ads that you don't want them to load.

There are two ad-on available which has the same core function and does slightly different job, AdBlock and AdBlock Plus.

Here I am showing you how to use AdBlock Plus on Firefox and where to go when you need support or answer to the question you want to ask.

Get it

• Go to Firefox Add-ons website and click on Add to Firefox
• Accept and install it
• Restart your Firefox
• Now it will prompt with a filter subscription windows. Optionally you can subscribe one of them (I'd prefer the Easy List (USA) if I subscribe). However, you can do this latter whenever you wish.
• You will notice the red icon button on the top right corner of your Firefox browser. This is where you can and edit your ads blocking preferences.

Personally, I block the ads manually, and only block those heavy graphic ads such as over-size, flash video/animation. I don't usually block text-base ads such as Google adsense or the like.

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FAQ & Tip AdBlock, Blocking-Ads, Firefox

Today, the number of internet domains is exponentially increased and keep counting. There are wanted and unwanted websites/domains to visit. In most case users have no control of how/what page contents are being displayed. Some users can affort to purchase a software which run at the system level to block unwanted contents while some cannot affort or they don’t like to purchase the third party software because of the cost is not reasonable enough.

Well, you don’t have to live with it if you don’t want to. There are some work-around to prevent a certain page content from being displayed while you are browsing. Let's take advantage of the hosts file and make your browsing experience more pleasure.

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This file contains a list of mappings of IP addresses to host names. You can use this file to block an unwanted or ads site/domains by following a few simple steps below.

Locating hosts file

This will depends on which OS you are using

• Windows 95/98/Me : %windir%
• Windows NT/2000/XP : %SystemRoot%system32driversetc
• Linux : /etc
• Max OS X : either /private/etc or /etc

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FAQ & Tip AdBlock, Blocking-Ads