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Lifestyle => Tha G-Spot => Topic started by: Jome on July 23, 2004, 10:26:03 PM
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Pop-ups is a problem of the past, but flashing ads, moving ads, and especially those with sound is still annoying to many people.
At least to those who haven't heard about the award winning netbrowser Mozilla Firefox (http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/). (The whole program is only 5 MB)
It closes pop-up's by default, and if you want to remove regular advertisement and flash animations as well, install the plug-in called Ad-Block (http://update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&id=10&vid=215).
When this is installed, Ad-Block blocks a whole range of known advertising URL's, and you can easily remove other ads manually.
Mozilla Firefox Screenshot:
(http://img15.exs.cx/img15/1475/Mozilla01.jpg)
The CNN, MTV, OHH, Hiphopsite logos you see is so-called "tabbed browsing" - you can have 20+ sites open in 1 window, pretty handy.
Btw, WCC should have a logo like that, didn't the old board have that Seer.. ??
See the Google logo up in the right corner, you can search Google directly from the searchbar, or Yahoo if you rather like that.
Blocking ads manually:
Ad-Block blocks 90% of all ads by default, the rest you have to remove yourself, but it's quickly done..
It blocks so many ads, that I had to go through 10 websites to actually find a ad.
Right-click the ad, then choose "Adblock image"
(http://img15.exs.cx/img15/7577/Mozilla02.jpg)
This convo appears:
(http://img15.exs.cx/img15/2869/Mozilla03.jpg)
Hit "Ok", and whoops:
(http://img4.exs.cx/img4/414/Mozilla04.jpg)
You'll never see that ad again..
Some sites have Flash, Macromedia, etc. that you can not right-click, for those ads this little icon appears:
(http://img13.exs.cx/img13/1934/Mozilla05.jpg)
IMDB shows a fucking movie trailer as ad, fuck outta here!
Hit the little partly invisible icon in the left bottom of the ad, and it'll be gone in a second.. 8)
You can even add "wildcards", which removes every ad on a certain site.
Tothegame.com uses the adress "http://www.tothegame.com/res/ads/" for all their advertisements:
(http://img48.exs.cx/img48/7922/Mozilla06.jpg)
Make it say "http://www.tothegame.com/res/ads/" instead, all ads from this site will be blocked:
(http://img48.exs.cx/img48/3185/Mozilla07.jpg)
Of course, FireFox is several times faster than IE, + no spyware & adware is written for it.. 8)
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That program seems nice as hell. I may have to say goodbye to IE.
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fuck outta here! Avant Browser baby!
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I stopped usin IE a couple weeks ago and switched to it, I've been lovin it ever since. One question, how do you delete your temporary internet files from Mozilla?
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fuck outta here! Avant Browser baby!
8)
all about Avant!!!
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u guys can give this program a try dis shit is tyte i use it SECRETMAKER u can get it off download.com it duz everything and it upgrades every 10 days or so so its always on task ;)
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I stopped usin IE a couple weeks ago and switched to it, I've been lovin it ever since. One question, how do you delete your temporary internet files from Mozilla?
Tools > Options > Privacy > Cache > Clear cache
Tried Avant once, but it couldn't do half the things FireFox & Opera can do..
myIE is also wack. >:(
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I stopped usin IE a couple weeks ago and switched to it, I've been lovin it ever since. One question, how do you delete your temporary internet files from Mozilla?
Tools > Options > Privacy > Cache > Clear cache
Tried Avant once, but it couldn't do half the things FireFox & Opera can do..
myIE is also wack. >:(
so what do u recomend?
but avant has been really good...
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I stopped usin IE a couple weeks ago and switched to it, I've been lovin it ever since. One question, how do you delete your temporary internet files from Mozilla?
Tools > Options > Privacy > Cache > Clear cache
Tried Avant once, but it couldn't do half the things FireFox & Opera can do..
myIE is also wack. >:(
Thanks 8)
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I stopped usin IE a couple weeks ago and switched to it, I've been lovin it ever since. One question, how do you delete your temporary internet files from Mozilla?
Tools > Options > Privacy > Cache > Clear cache
Tried Avant once, but it couldn't do half the things FireFox & Opera can do..
myIE is also wack. >:(
so what do u recomend?
gee, well I'm just gonna take a fuckin shot in the dark here and take a wild fuckin guess. I would guess that jome is reccomending mozilla firebird. but remember, this is just a fuckin shot in the dark, so I probably have a good 90% chance of being wrong, almost as good of odds as you hitting puberty within the next 2 years. keep up the intelligent fuckin posts einstein.
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I stopped usin IE a couple weeks ago and switched to it, I've been lovin it ever since. One question, how do you delete your temporary internet files from Mozilla?
Tools > Options > Privacy > Cache > Clear cache
Tried Avant once, but it couldn't do half the things FireFox & Opera can do..
myIE is also wack. >:(
so what do u recomend?
gee, well I'm just gonna take a fuckin shot in the dark here and take a wild fuckin guess. I would guess that jome is reccomending mozilla firebird. but remember, this is just a fuckin shot in the dark, so I probably have a good 90% chance of being wrong, almost as good of odds as you hitting puberty within the next 2 years. keep up the intelligent fuckin posts einstein.
LMAO, thanx for doin that for me, cuz if you werent, i was going to....
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how u install this shit?
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Thanx
Here is 1 4 ya Jome
I get these pop us messages even when I aint browsing
I could be on a Game and the twats pop up
How can I stop it ?
Nice 1
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I Just Got Avant, Pretty Tight...What Differences Does FireFox Have That Avant Doesnt?? Or The Other Way Around???
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http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/download.html?http%3A//ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/0.9.2/FirefoxSetup-0.9.2.exe
^^link for firefox.
Jome i will die a happy man if we can convert everyone to firefox :)
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i use firefox too.....don't gotta worry about all that bullshit on IE
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I stopped usin IE a couple weeks ago and switched to it, I've been lovin it ever since. One question, how do you delete your temporary internet files from Mozilla?
myIE is also wack. >:(
I use MyIE2 and I was wondering how is Firefox better? From the screenshot the two look really similar so I don't know if I should switch or not.
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thanks for that Ad-block plugin.
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Quick Tip!
If you want ad-block to catch everything (basically everything)
http://www.spuler.us/extensions/adblock.txt
Save-As that text file and place it in your firefox folder (So you can easily remember where it is). Then go to
(in firefox) Tools>Adblock>Prefrences>AdBlock Options>Import List
Select that text file you downloaded. Then there should be alot of words in that adblock window. Then click done.
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Quick Tip!
If you want ad-block to catch everything (basically everything)
http://www.spuler.us/extensions/adblock.txt
Save-As that text file and place it in your firefox folder (So you can easily remember where it is). Then go to
(in firefox) Tools>Adblock>Prefrences>AdBlock Options>Import List
Select that text file you downloaded. Then there should be alot of words in that adblock window. Then click done.
thanks. i'ma gonna try it.
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this shit looks dope, i muight have to try it out, ive been using IE for a long time now
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Thanx
Here is 1 4 ya Jome
I get these pop us messages even when I aint browsing
I could be on a Game and the twats pop up
How can I stop it ?
Nice 1
Sounds like you have adware installed on your computer, which will start pop-ups and ads in the background..
Kazaa, Morpheus and a lot of other programs installs these kinda ad-programs..
Try searching your computer with Ad-Aware (http://www.download.com/Ad-aware/3000-8022-10214379.html?tag=lst-0-2), this will find/remove all spyware/adware/dialers & other BS on your comp, first time I ran it, it found almost 100 different dodgy programs/cookies/dialers, etc..
Removing these programs makes the computer a lot faster as well.
Using Firefox or Opera instead of IE will keep you from getting more adware.. almost all adware/spyware is built for IE.
And Firefox & Opera closes pop-ups.
Jome i will die a happy man if we can convert everyone to firefox :)
Word, I always plug Mozilla & Opera because so many people use IE and don't even know about better alternatives..
Then there's the spyware, adware, casino/porn-bars, etc. autochanging startpage, dialers, pop-ups etc..
Even a seasoned cpu user can catch virus/spyware/adware from IE..
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safari is the best around :) www.apple.com/safari/
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how do I install this fuckin plug-in callad ad-block
and all those other plug ins to view sites properly wtf that's fuckin annoying >:(
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how do I install this fuckin plug-in callad ad-block
and all those other plug ins to view sites properly wtf that's fuckin annoying >:(
Ad-Block (http://update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&id=10&vid=215)
Hit "Install now" on the page, and then "Install" when the question pops up,.. done.
And of course you gotta have FireFox installed..
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(12.621 post per day) is that a record Jome ;D
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Naww, I think I'm maybe in top 10 or 15 of the members.
And then there's your aliases, they're not counted, so maybe I'm top 50..
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Naww, I think I'm maybe in top 10 or 15 of the members.
And then there's your aliases, they're not counted, so maybe I'm top 50..
LOL your humor is dry.
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how do I install this fuckin plug-in callad ad-block
and all those other plug ins to view sites properly wtf that's fuckin annoying >:(
Ad-Block (http://update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&id=10&vid=215)
Hit "Install now" on the page, and then "Install" when the question pops up,.. done.
And of course you gotta have FireFox installed..
LoL awesome!
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I still havent Installed It, But is this just an "Skin" Of Sorts For IE just like Avant, only thing that makes it different is a ad blocker and tabbed webviews????????? im still contimplating downloading it, i dunno, i think i just might...but if this is a totally different browser, would i have to install Flash & Shockwave and all those plugins again for this Browser???
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how do you do that shit with the tabs. i've been usin mozilla Firefox but i never found out how to do that.
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I still havent Installed It, But is this just an "Skin" Of Sorts For IE just like Avant, only thing that makes it different is a ad blocker and tabbed webviews????????? im still contimplating downloading it, i dunno, i think i just might...but if this is a totally different browser, would i have to install Flash & Shockwave and all those plugins again for this Browser???
No, it doesn't use IE at all..
It's a little separate program on 5 MB, easy install, easy to use, and easy to get rid of if you like IE better. (You will not)
Flash, Shochwave, Acrobat, etc. everything else will still work fine in Firefox.
Firefox is a LOT faster than IE, blocks pop-ups, blocks ads/sounds and flash ads, it's totally configurable, better bookmarks/favorites, easier to use, etc., you can download separate skins to make it look like whatever you want.. even has a "Google searchbar" built in, which you can change to whatever search function you want.
+ I use a plugin called "Quicknote", it's like "notepad" built into Firefox..
how do you do that shit with the tabs. i've been usin mozilla Firefox but i never found out how to do that.
Use the button on your mousewheel.. click a link by pressing the mousewheel down.. 8)
Strange in the beginning, but awesome when you get used to it.
Opens a new tab with the link you pressed.
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this is pretty dope, i downloaded firefox last night, and i really like it :)
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I stopped usin IE a couple weeks ago and switched to it, I've been lovin it ever since. One question, how do you delete your temporary internet files from Mozilla?
Tools > Options > Privacy > Cache > Clear cache
Tried Avant once, but it couldn't do half the things FireFox & Opera can do..
myIE is also wack. >:(
so what do u recomend?
gee, well I'm just gonna take a fuckin shot in the dark here and take a wild fuckin guess. I would guess that jome is reccomending mozilla firebird. but remember, this is just a fuckin shot in the dark, so I probably have a good 90% chance of being wrong, almost as good of odds as you hitting puberty within the next 2 years. keep up the intelligent fuckin posts einstein.
^^^lmfao...... 8) ;D :D 8)
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it doesnt work with firefox 1.02..
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^^ Well, this is a old topic, but this should work with the new version:
https://addons.update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&version=1.0&os=nt&id=10 (https://addons.update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&version=1.0&os=nt&id=10)
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now that i installed firefoxxx anyone know if its safe to remove IE from my pc? i hate havin shit that i dont use on my pc