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Adblock Plus.
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 6:44 pm
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.
Re: Adblock Plus.
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 6:49 pm
by Jacques
Yes and yes.
Don't leave home(page) without it.
Re: Adblock Plus.
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 6:53 pm
by Trumpton
Ta Monsieur Minky !thumbsup!
I'll download it.
Re: Adblock Plus.
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 6:55 pm
by Trumpton
Oops - forgot to ask. What size is the software?
Re: Adblock Plus.
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 6:59 pm
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!
Re: Adblock Plus.
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 7:03 pm
by Trumpton
Ta muchly Prof. !thumbsup!
Re: Adblock Plus.
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 7:40 pm
by sparky
Yes I have it and yes it works well.
Not that big to download.
Not sure about load on PC resources.
Re: Adblock Plus.
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 8:13 pm
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?
Re: Adblock Plus.
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 8:23 pm
by Sam Slater
Don't you mean 256mbs of ram, Trumpy?
Re: Adblock Plus.
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 8:28 pm
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?