Adblock Plus.

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Trumpton
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Adblock Plus.

Post by Trumpton »

I'm on Firefox and have discovered that I can download some add-ons. One is Adblock Plus. It blocks out those annoying adverts that seem to take forever to download. Has anyone use it? Is it any good?

Thanking in advance.

Jacques
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Re: Adblock Plus.

Post by Jacques »

Yes and yes.

Don't leave home(page) without it.

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Trumpton
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Re: Adblock Plus.

Post by Trumpton »

Ta Monsieur Minky !thumbsup!

I'll download it.

Trumpton
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Re: Adblock Plus.

Post by Trumpton »

Oops - forgot to ask. What size is the software?

Sam Slater
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Re: Adblock Plus.

Post by Sam Slater »

I think with adblock you can use the preinstalled settings on which urls are blocked, or teach it yourself by right-clicking ads and blocking them. The latter helps stop it blocking stuff you actually want to see. (if it still works this way)

The inbuilt adblocker in Opera works fine for me !thumbsup!

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Trumpton
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Re: Adblock Plus.

Post by Trumpton »

Ta muchly Prof. !thumbsup!

sparky
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Re: Adblock Plus.

Post by sparky »

Yes I have it and yes it works well.

Not that big to download.
Not sure about load on PC resources.

Trumpton
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Re: Adblock Plus.

Post by Trumpton »

sparky wrote:

> Yes I have it and yes it works well.

Excellent.

> Not that big to download.

Good.

> Not sure about load on PC resources.

OK. You see I only have 256 megs processor on my laptop and I'm just wondering whether this piece of software is a heavy resource user?

Sam Slater
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Re: Adblock Plus.

Post by Sam Slater »

Don't you mean 256mbs of ram, Trumpy?

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Trumpton
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Re: Adblock Plus.

Post by Trumpton »

Prof wrote:

> Don't you mean 256mbs of ram, Trumpy?

!oops! Yup, that's right. I realised I'd boobed after I'd pressed the 'post' key.

Btw, what's the difference between total physical memory and total virtual memory?

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