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Chowchilla

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Registered: 2011-11-13

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[SOLVED] Adblock Plus issue in Firefox 14

Not my day for browsing it seems!

I only today noticed that ABP wasn't working. Don't know for sure whether it began after the upgrade to Firefox 14 a couple weeks back, as I haven't really used the browser much since then other than for a few quick searches. Anyway, I naturally went to check the extension's settings (right click it in extension list > prefs), however the portion of the window which should contain the various options was completely blank. I eventually figured out that disabling and re-enabling the extension fixes the problems (prefs appear and ads blocked as expected). The problem is that it needs to be done on every launch of firefox.

I've tried removing ABP and reinstalling, tried older versions and development builds, but no luck. Then tried removing firefox via pacman and deleting ~/.mozilla and then reinstalling but still the same result. Note that my other extensions, NoScript and HTTPS Everywhere work fine, so it's not an issue that affects all extensions. I have Firefox 14 running on a Debian install with the exact same setup down to the tiniest option, and there are no problems whatsoever.

Last edited by Chowchilla (2012-08-04 03:47:11)

drcouzelis

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Re: [SOLVED] Adblock Plus issue in Firefox 14

I'm not sure what the issue is ("It works for me" ). Are you using an Arch Linux Adblock package or are you using the Firefox add-ons website (which is what I use)?

Chowchilla

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Re: [SOLVED] Adblock Plus issue in Firefox 14

I installed it via Firefox's add-ons website.

Lone_Wolf

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Re: [SOLVED] Adblock Plus issue in Firefox 14

Check if you have the last version,  i have 2.1.2 and this doesn't have preferences in the right-click menu.
It uses options instead now.

Last edited by Lone_Wolf (2012-08-01 16:19:34)

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kichawa

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Re: [SOLVED] Adblock Plus issue in Firefox 14

confirm!
adblock 2.1.2
fx: 14.0.1

I can't turn on flash on yt because of adblock.

Chowchilla

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Registered: 2011-11-13

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Re: [SOLVED] Adblock Plus issue in Firefox 14

My flash still works fine, so I've no issues there. But this does suggest it's a fault with ABP not FF.

Chowchilla

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Registered: 2011-11-13

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Re: [SOLVED] Adblock Plus issue in Firefox 14

The solution that fixed my problem with chromium:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=146244

also seems to have fixed this issue also. A simple:

pacman -Sc

Although I haven't tested ABP more thoroughly than a quick check on a ad block test page, and a few sites known to be riddled with ads, I'm pretty confident things are sorted.