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n brown Wild Motorhomer Posts: 2,288 Likes: 1,470	adblocker Jan 21, 2013 16:07:07 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by n brown on Jan 21, 2013 16:07:07 GMT i know that using an adblocker is anti social,but i really can't stand to watch ads on crap i'd never buy when all i want is to see a sbort clip.soo,any recommendations?

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Post by Firefox on Jan 21, 2013 16:16:08 GMT

I installed ad blocker from adblockplus.org/en/

But a caveat to other people. Sometimes these blockers can stop other content from working eg Pop up forms as part of a shopping website. That's what has happened to me previously with these.

So if something else doesn't appear to be happening, you may need to work round it

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Graph of visits per day to FMUK. The left hand red dot shows the highest for the previous few months, the right hand red dot shows the current days views, and it will fill up as the day progresses

Graph of visits per day to FMUK. The left hand red dot shows the highest for the previous few months, the right hand red dot shows the current days views, and it will fill up as the day progresses

n brown Wild Motorhomer Posts: 2,288 Likes: 1,470	adblocker Jan 21, 2013 17:32:31 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by n brown on Jan 21, 2013 17:32:31 GMT is that just for firefox Firefox?

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Post by Firefox on Jan 21, 2013 17:46:21 GMT

Nope they also do it for Chrome

adblockplus.org/en/chrome

(and Android and Opera if you have either of those)

I don't think they do IE - it is not a very nice browser to work with (or use!) so the free software developers don't often support it.

There's maybe someone else who does.

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Graph of visits per day to FMUK. The left hand red dot shows the highest for the previous few months, the right hand red dot shows the current days views, and it will fill up as the day progresses

n brown Wild Motorhomer Posts: 2,288 Likes: 1,470	adblocker Jan 21, 2013 17:54:58 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by n brown on Jan 21, 2013 17:54:58 GMT ah!the only reason i don't use chrome is i can't work out how to get a favourites toolbar!

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Post by Oldish Hippy on Jan 21, 2013 18:07:54 GMT

Jan 21, 2013 17:54:58 GMT n brown said:

ah!the only reason i don't use chrome is i can't work out how to get a favourites toolbar!

go to far right three lines icon click that and go to settings

settings
first section
sign in

second section
on start up

third section down
appearance

Always show the bookmarks bar put tick in that box

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Post by Firefox on Jan 21, 2013 18:33:13 GMT

True... that little three lines icon on Chrome holds a lot of secrets!

For example I like a Home button where I store an online or offline page with a load of personal links. I use this instead of the favourites feature.

It can be added on with Chrome and Firefox as can everything else but you do have to mess around somewhat... this is something I feel they could have made a lot more intuitive.

Once you are set up though you should find it's a lot faster than IE and a lot safer surfing the web. Chrome especially is good - Firefox has got a bit bloated but it's still miles better than IE. I only use Firefox on this machine because the OS doesn't support Chrome (I use Chrome and Opera otherwise)

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Graph of visits per day to FMUK. The left hand red dot shows the highest for the previous few months, the right hand red dot shows the current days views, and it will fill up as the day progresses

n brown Wild Motorhomer Posts: 2,288 Likes: 1,470	adblocker Jan 21, 2013 18:39:11 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by n brown on Jan 21, 2013 18:39:11 GMT cheers chaps,i managed all that so far and will have a muck about with it! more questions to follow probably!

Oldish Hippy Wild Motorhomer Posts: 1,280 Likes: 289	adblocker Jan 21, 2013 19:22:34 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Oldish Hippy on Jan 21, 2013 19:22:34 GMT well ihave chrome firefox safari lunascape ie not opera as didnt like it and was to slow need all to play around with and get some backdoors into see what the scripts are running

vwT5surfbus Wild Motorhomer Posts: 491 Likes: 2	adblocker Jan 23, 2013 13:16:31 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by vwT5surfbus on Jan 23, 2013 13:16:31 GMT works well with chrome