2008apr07. Mail.
Re: Firefox 3 betas and extensions
This tip works:
http://lifehacker.com/355973/make-your-extensions-work-with-the-firefox-3-beta.
Ah! Thank you for that. Another reader tackles the problem farther down the gridiron:
Sr. Tarjetacasa,
I have run into the same ad blocking issue as you [I’ve been running nightlies of Flock, the “social” browser based on Firefox]. AdBlock wasn’t working anymore, so to get around it I started blocking at the host level, which is a tip I originally learned from @Man’s websi+e ten years ago but which has been carried to extremes by these dudes, who update their list religiously and even packaged an installer:
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
It doesn’t collapse the banners the way Adblock does, but at least there’s nothing in there anymore. Note that it does not kill banners hosted on the si+es themselves like the J-list one for Cardhouse, which is ok with me.
Ho! I had abandoned that methodology years ago when Adblock came into vogue ... I’ll have to give it another eyeballing. Many thanks.
