September 7, 2008
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Adblock Plus
As the next installment of my Firefox Plugins series, I’d like to talk about Adblock Plus. This plugin is necessary on dial up and other slow Internet connections. You can have it subscribe to a list of advertisements to block. Also, it does a very good job of picking out content to block – that is, it rarely shows me an ad or hides something I want to see.
When it does miss something or overstep the line, you can easily do a manual edit. For pictures, just right click and select “Adblock image”. When it tried to block some parts of my university’s site, I just added an exception for any page on the university site.
This plugin also has several optional supporting plugins. I don’t know what they all do since I’ve never tried them. But I can guess: some work to keep the subscription list up to date. Others try to help you manage what to block.
Overall, this plugin is non-obtrusive and efficient. I would recommend it for every Firefox user.
