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Tene reviewed v0.5.3.043 Development Build on Jun 19, 2007

It's nice to see the official Adblock (without the Plus) being worked on as well. This is fine (and perhaps advantageous due to its relative speed) if you know your regexp. Adblock Plus just seems more intuitive and easy to use though, plus that has full element hiding abilities.

mjm01010101 reviewed v0.5.3.043 Development Build on Jun 18, 2007

I've always used this without fail.
adblock + caused high CPU the first time I tried it out.
I have a filter list and never see ads, it does what I want.

minklein reviewed v0.5.3.043 Development Build on Jun 18, 2007

Ad Muncher it is not.

werwin reviewed v0.5.3.042 Development Build on Feb 9, 2006

After being a fan of Adblock for many months, I tried Adblock Plus, and found it to be more effective and user friendly.

mdew reviewed v0.5.3.042 Development Build on Feb 3, 2006

seems faster than adblock-plus, not too sure which one i'd choose so far. Adblock-plus has the features, but is slower, this is ok.

Paradise-FH- reviewed v0.5.3.042 Development Build on Feb 2, 2006

I give this a one for being deceptive: "Now blocks everything -- backgrounds, script-serialized nodes... and yes, even scripts." Adblock does not block divs and further never will according to the authors. I guess divs aren't a part of "everything" though.

i still have to recommend adblock plus .5.x over this.

mjm01010101 reviewed v0.5.3.042 Development Build on Feb 2, 2006

How odd. This version has been out like 2-3 weeks now.

bounty1990 reviewed v0.5.3.042 Development Build on Feb 2, 2006

Wow this makes those ad full site look full.

WhiteZero reviewed v0.5.3.042 Development Build on Feb 2, 2006

robmanic44, why run an extra program when this is an integrated extension?

robmanic44 reviewed v0.5.3.042 Development Build on Feb 2, 2006

Get a web filter and you won't have to worry about this garbage. Privoxy and Proxomitron are free and they work quite well. Privoxy even works on X64.

benZin reviewed v0.5.3.042 Development Build on Feb 2, 2006

Vive Adblock! Excellent.

Don Juan reviewed v0.5.3.042 Development Build on Feb 2, 2006

I can live with restarting my browser every once and a while if adblock plus has a memory leak. The additional features it has definitely outweigh the fault of the memory leak.

mjm01010101 reviewed v0.5.2.056 on Dec 1, 2005

adblock plus has a nasty bug where pages take longer and longer to refresh the longer you have the browser open. It's easy to reproduce, press F5, watch a page reload normally, at the end of the reload, it will "pause" the whole system, use 100% CPU. Very annoying.

zaga reviewed v0.5.2.056 on Dec 1, 2005

Great stuff.
Thank you Betanews for posting new FF-Extension versions.

davygiven reviewed v0.5.2.056 on Dec 1, 2005

Re: ye110mann

At the time of writing this version of Adblock does not appear when I manually update my extensions.

Thanks for the heads-up Betanews.

ye110mann reviewed v0.5.2.056 on Nov 30, 2005

Are you kidding me?! This is why I'm opposed to Betanews posting Firefox extensions.
1. Firefox has an updater. No need for Betanews to post it.
2. There are too many extensions.
3. Betanews is usually behind.

In this case Adblock isn't even officially in development anymore. This "update" is just to maintain compatibility. Adblock Plus is superior in every way.

KOLE89 reviewed v0.5.2.056 on Nov 30, 2005

I agree with Paradise-FH- , Adblock plus is much better than Adblock.

sn0wflake reviewed v0.5.2.056 on Nov 30, 2005

cowgaR: You'll probably not notice any speed difference if you're on a 1 MB or above connection. The big deal with Adblock is that you can remove all those annoying Flash/animated GIF/big banners/etc. Adblock is the primary reason I use Firefox instead of Opera and Internet Explorer just plain suck ;)

chimpypimpy reviewed v0.5.2.056 on Nov 30, 2005

"I wish there was some default -ads- list or something."

Your wish is my command.
http://www.pierceive.com/filtersetg/

cowgaR reviewed v0.5.2.056 on Nov 30, 2005

too much fame to what it offers, at 1st(cca year ago) I thought installing this famous extension I will get a ferrari to my firefox or something.

I don't get it yet, I have to manually add everything to addblock, what I can currently do with normal FF, just block-images-from-this-site and its the same.

edit:
sn0wflake: read again, you can do the same with vanilla FF and block-images-from...
chimpypimpy: thank you, I take it that it is the most used filter...I loaded it, looks ok.

I installed AdBlock, and it DEFINITELY helped me in browsing although I am on DSL. I don't usually install extensions, as I am always on nighties testing, but this one seems O.K. and the rendering is faster, maybe not rendering, but this little waiting for the page to load.

To AdBlock Plus -> how it can be better if they have such a lame bug, that it installs to program-files directory.

As to commercial extension, nice to have it, but it is no need to blame AdBlock for offering less features. I can't imagine paying for extensions thought, lately we just got one free browser that was commercial, now we are going commercial again? No way.

kise reviewed v0.5 Development Build 2 on Sep 22, 2005

There's som .39 versions out there.. someone posted this link earlier: http://aasted.org/adblock/viewtopic.php?t=2264

Try that.

Btw. I Made my own [\W] regex expression for catching .(swf|gif|jpg)?=(http|www|.asp|.html) etc..

Developers Only.

Tenoq reviewed v0.5 Development Build 2 on Sep 21, 2005

Small. Simple. Elegant. Effective.

The use of wildcards means you can create a blocklist within a minute that captures 90% of ads. Beyond that, you can block anything else you don't like. I love this little add-on.

Arakiel reviewed v0.5 Development Build 2 on Sep 21, 2005

Metshrine, you need to get out more before you go postal over open source software. Seriously, you have issues.

Love this plugin. The ease of use and simple effectivness of it means I have a much more enjoyable surfing experience. The best part is that it not only just blocks the ad images, but actually removes them from the page giving the page a nice neat appearance as well as keeping it ad free.

Flemens reviewed v0.5 Development Build 2 on Sep 20, 2005

well, Metshrine. You can whine about freeware, but anybody who is using Firefox has no need of spending money on admuncher or anything that costs money. There are free extensions for almost any need.
With this extension one sees no ads. If one wants to block ads and spyware through the hostsfile, one can use hostsman (it works perfectly with IE too) wich is updated frequently - and its free. One can take that money and give it to charity instead.

Personally I use Adblock plus. It hase a nice feature where one can whitelist sites if one wants to support a ad driven site.

trebor reviewed v0.5 Development Build 2 on Sep 20, 2005

There's AdBlockPlus which is a straight evolution of Adblock and Adblock Filter.G Updater, which pulls down the latest expert list of sites and adds to block. Together they will do as good a job as Admuncher. They both work in Deerpark/FFX 1.5 Beta1 too.

Metshrine reviewed v0.5 Development Build 2 on Sep 20, 2005

This is why I use ad muncher, yes it costs money, but I get a huge return on my investment. A server supplied list that updates 4-5 times a week automatically without me having to do a thing, a program that is under CONSTANT development and new beta versions released every couple of weeks, a program that doesnt require any user intervention to work properly (or work at all), just install and let it sit. Ad block i snice, but the problem with it is that you have to hunt for a default list (or create one on your own which requires a lot of time to do, unless you copy other peoples work), and update it each time a new ad is found. Plus, Ad Muncher is not browser dependant so it works with any http enabled application or game. Oh and guess what, ad muncher doesnt break each time you upgrade your browser! This is one case where freeware is not better than its commercial counterparts. Ad block is good, it works, but it just doesnt give me the ease of use that ad muncher provides nor does it have the functionality that ad muncher does.

Now let the flaming against me begin for bad mouthing everyone's much beloved freeware. I know, I should be sent to hell for bad mouthing freeware as most firefox users have taught me.

EDIT - 08OCT05

By the way, I have nothing against open source software, I use firefox, thunderbird, gaim, filezilla and several other open source projects. I do have a problem with the open source community (namely firefox) not recognizing when another COMMERCIAL app supercedes the free/open source app in functionality. They instead bash it and flame anyone who expresses the possibility of a bug/flaw/lacking feature

The MAZZTer reviewed v0.5 Development Build 2 on Sep 20, 2005

I thought this was the new 50 build, but it's not, it's the old 39 build. IT DOWNGRADED MY PLUGIN, THANKS ALOT. >:(

Anyways, 50 fixes compatibility with flash in Firefox 1.5b1, among other things.

You can grab it here: http://aasted.org/adblock/viewtopic.php?t=2264

SacrificeX reviewed v0.5 Development Build 2 on Sep 20, 2005

I was excited to finally see Adblock being updated, only to notice it is the same version that has been around for ages. Great extension, just wish they would finally update it.

mjm01010101 reviewed v0.5 Development Build 2 on Sep 20, 2005

This is an older version, if you already have adblock, nothing is different. the XPI is dated 2004.

lordnaastik reviewed v0.5 Development Build 2 on Sep 20, 2005

works with firefox 1.5 beta.seems to work with seamonkey 1 alpha.great extension.

dalmiroy2k reviewed v0.5 Development Build 2 on Sep 20, 2005

Works great with firefox 1.5 beta