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November 29, 2005
New AdBlock?
New AdBlock? It looks like this Firefox extension has been updated, but I'm unable to find decent release notes. AdBlock blocks ads on websites, a two-edged sword if you rely on ads to pay for the labor you put into your site. There was some problem with it during Flash Player 8 beta -- the Macromedia site had some mention of it but today all I find is a mirrored quote at Ray Camden's blog. I researched this today because a blogsearch showed a live post of problems, with advice to go back to Flash Player 7 -- the latter recommendation is definitely not recommended for security reasons, but that's what people are telling each other online. Google has more citations of current conversation. The AdBlock comments at MozDev imply that the extension was abandoned but now has a new version... I'd feel more confident if I could find strong source info for all the above, instead of trying to read between the lines of various incomplete statements. Anyway, if you want to use AdBlock, then there's a new version that apparently doesn't balk at the new Player like the old one did. If you've got links to better source info then I'd appreciate it in comments here, thanks.
Posted by John Dowdell at November 29, 2005 04:08 PM
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I have found this to be a constant case with that plugin. I hope to see full support for AdBlock as it also has another bug where if you view a page that has Flash it sometimes will "disappear" if you hit the back button, the problem is under my tests Flash is still running it is just not visible.
Matt
Posted by: Matthew at November 29, 2005 05:08 PM
Thanks to Jennifer Chang of Macromedia for this link... it shows the test case for the problem (apparently a varying rewrite of the HTML page by the Firefox extension), and that it was addressed by someone working on the extension. (I'm still unclear why the most recent version of the extension is not on the Firefox site, however... it looks like it forked somehow, but I don't have context yet.)
Posted by: John Dowdell at November 29, 2005 05:32 PM
Comments at Mozillazine indicate more problems with AdBlock in Firefox 1.5.
Posted by: John Dowdell at December 1, 2005 03:25 PM