Ad Blockers for Firefox

[ameerat42]

Hi All,
Just two quick Qs.
1) What are some good ad blocking add-ons for Firefox 3.6.18?
2) Do they help speed up page display?
Ta, Am.

[Tannin]

Am, you will get a more visible speed increase by upgrading to either Opera (http://opera.com) or a newer Firefox. V5 is just a new number grafted on top of Firefox 4, but Firefox 4 was nevertheless a huge improvement over the old 3.x. With Firefox 4, for the very first time, they delivered a browser that is around about as fast as Opera (which is to say very fast indeed). It's quite a difference.

I can't tell you anything much about the Firefox 5 blocking add-ins except to say that there are plenty to choose from. You can already block or allow pretty much anything you want with Opera straight out of the box.

[ameerat42]

Thanks, Tannin. I guess I will just have to install V 4(-5).
Am.

Ah, PS: With FF4 or 5, do the add-ons for EXIF and Histogram still work OK?

[Xenedis]

Adblock Plus.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/

It's very effective. I've been using it for a few years.

I don't see ads (not that I ever paid attention to them before using Adblock Plus).

I cannot say I know whether there's a noticeable speed increase as a result of blocked ads; I wasn't interested in Web site performance; I just didn't want to see ads.

[Mark L]

....... and the Histogram Viewer (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/histogram-viewer/) works just fine if you force compatibility.

I installed this 3 minutes ago on FF5. Worked with no compatibility problems. :th3:

[ameerat42]

Thanks, Xenedis, Richard and Mark.

I installed Ad Blocker yesterday into my present version and it's great so far.

Soon I'll do the upgrade to V5, and thanks for all the advice.
Am.