I've been running Firefox 3 beta versions for a while now. It comes as the default browser on Ubuntu and my new Vista box runs Firefox 3 beta 5. I have my own list of Firefox plugins, the most useful ones I use are Forecast fox and that's probably it. Well no. I use a plugin called Adblock Plus and a companion of that, that has lists of ads to block. You never really know that it is even in play until you stop using it.
At any rate, neither of those plugins work on Firefox 3 beta 5. Yet. As a result, every page that I visit (including the BBC of all places!) has advertiesements galore. You know those things that blink in a multitude of colours getting in your way of reading whatever it is that you're trying to read. Facebook is littered with them, many of the blogs I read are full of them, pretty much any page I searched for on google ends up having these darn things all over the place. I hate web ads. I don't think I have ever bought anything from the web because of a web ad. I buy plenty of things online; most of them are things I want to buy and I usually see a post about it being on sale on slickdeals or techbargains or gottadeal or redflagdeals (Canadian) and I buy them. Or someone tells me X is available for purchase. Like the time Anton told me about the GPS unit at Costco.
I sure hope most if not all people out there who use firefox take advantage of adblock plus... to get rid of those annoying ads... and I cannot wait for the plugin to be released for beta 5.
At any rate, neither of those plugins work on Firefox 3 beta 5. Yet. As a result, every page that I visit (including the BBC of all places!) has advertiesements galore. You know those things that blink in a multitude of colours getting in your way of reading whatever it is that you're trying to read. Facebook is littered with them, many of the blogs I read are full of them, pretty much any page I searched for on google ends up having these darn things all over the place. I hate web ads. I don't think I have ever bought anything from the web because of a web ad. I buy plenty of things online; most of them are things I want to buy and I usually see a post about it being on sale on slickdeals or techbargains or gottadeal or redflagdeals (Canadian) and I buy them. Or someone tells me X is available for purchase. Like the time Anton told me about the GPS unit at Costco.
I sure hope most if not all people out there who use firefox take advantage of adblock plus... to get rid of those annoying ads... and I cannot wait for the plugin to be released for beta 5.
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