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Thorny

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Re: Firefox 3
« Reply #15 on: June 24, 2008, 10:56:59 AM »
Not exactly on subject, but has anyone else noticed more pop under ads using Firefox 3?

I have found in particular that if I log into ITV.com F1 site that I always get two pop under ads loading once I tab a news item, the interesting thing is this does not happen doing exactly the same thing with Firefox 2?

I have ticked the stop pop up tab in both, but have not loaded any extensions so both versions are currently running as downloaded.

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Re: Firefox 3
« Reply #16 on: June 24, 2008, 12:24:49 PM »
Hi Thorny,

Yep, man, the ad-launchers get smarter all of the time, ABP blocks most of them, furthermore a nice one for these persistent things is the RIP add-on for Fx 3.0, and you can make these pop-unders rest in peace for ever. Another way to go about it is to block Flash with NoScript (general settings) so that you are asked all the time you wanna let the Flash thingies run inside the browser, just a question of one allowing click on the specific link, but with RIP they are gone forever: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/521 (If not compatible first take on the Nightly Tester Tools and enforce the Remove It Permanently: Firefox add-on that way).

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Re: Firefox 3
« Reply #17 on: June 24, 2008, 05:03:44 PM »
Finjan is my choice.
Other options will be SiteAdvisor and Scandoo.
Finjan isn't compatible with version 3  ??? ???
Neither are SiteAdvisor.Netcraft Anti phishing toolbar,and DrWeb link checker,as I've just found out.Wished I'd waited a  while. >:(

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Re: Firefox 3
« Reply #18 on: June 24, 2008, 05:05:59 PM »
Wished I'd waited a  while. >:(
It's sad (or unbelievable) that FF3 was in beta since last year as Gran Paradiso (if I'm not wrong) and till now there are a lot of non-compatible, non-developed, addons.
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Thorny

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Re: Firefox 3
« Reply #19 on: June 24, 2008, 07:43:08 PM »
Hi Polonus,

Thanks for the reply and info, giving ABP a try, so far good results:)
Have Back up plan, downloaded Opera!

Not sure that I actually like FF3, does seems not to run as smoothly on my setup as FF2, and I really don't believe its any faster.

Cheers,

Thorny

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Re: Firefox 3
« Reply #20 on: June 24, 2008, 07:50:26 PM »
Hi micky77,

You can change to Flock, and there you have all the goodies of your late Fx 2.14 back and some extra's,
Flock is good, is Mozilla, runs with Yahoo in stead of Google as standard search engine, all your FF add-ons work inside Flock as well,

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Re: Firefox 3
« Reply #21 on: June 24, 2008, 09:04:29 PM »
Hi micky77,

You can change to Flock, and there you have all the goodies of your late Fx 2.14 back and some extra's,
Flock is good, is Mozilla, runs with Yahoo in stead of Google as standard search engine, all your FF add-ons work inside Flock as well,

polonus
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Re: Firefox 3
« Reply #22 on: June 24, 2008, 09:24:10 PM »
Once again:
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=33717.0
it's a 3 months old replica from our friend POLONUS!!! It works fine for me! ;)
nobody is considering this option to get all old ff extensions compatible in 2-3 mouse clips. it's dangerous but it works fine ;D

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Re: Firefox 3
« Reply #23 on: June 24, 2008, 09:42:54 PM »
Hi gdiloren says it is dangerous, well only for a very small number of add-ons/extensions that are really incompatible: the wrong version of Locationbar2 for instance, and extensions that start to interfere with the right functioning of your browser (that is seldom seen go back one page and go forward, searchbox etc).

In normal cases it is just the gui setting of the add-on that is being checked, and removing this makes it work again normally, another way is to enforce working of older add-ons with Nightly Tester Tools.
One thing always have the latest versions of whatever add-on inside Fx 3.0 or Flock for that reason,

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Re: Firefox 3
« Reply #24 on: June 25, 2008, 02:12:18 AM »
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it's dangerous but it works fine  ;D
It may work fine but when the time comes to remove anything, that's when the
headaches will start.

I'd rather play it safe and wait till the add-ons are actually updated and are 100% compatible.
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Re: Firefox 3
« Reply #25 on: June 25, 2008, 05:48:47 AM »
I spotted Flock 2 is going to be based on Firefox 3 at Dan Burkhart's blog site.  Pocket Flock 2.0 beta 1 version is available here (The name Pocket Flock 2.0 is rather misleading since it actually is beta 1 of it).  I am using it with the same profile as FF3.

As for FF3, I have already turned on the compatibility check since every addon of my choice works fine now.

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Re: Firefox 3
« Reply #26 on: June 25, 2008, 02:07:00 PM »
That is going to be interesting if it is based on FF3 then will it work with the win9X, winME users, I think not.
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