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Encyclopedia > Adblock Plus

Adblock is a popular content-filtering extension for the Mozilla Firefox web browser. Adblock allows users to block page elements, such as advertisements, from being downloaded and displayed. Similarly to the Mozilla Firefox built-in image blocker, Adblock filters elements subject to their source address. It is, however, more flexible, as it allows filtering based on the regular expressions, and as, beside images, it can also block IFRAMEs, scripts, Flash, and more. Firefox extensions are software plugins that add new features to the Mozilla Firefox web browsers. ... Mozilla Firefox is a free, cross-platform, graphical web browser developed by the Mozilla Corporation and hundreds of volunteers. ... Online Advertising is advertising on the internet. ... A regular expression (abbreviated as regexp, regex, or regxp, with plural forms regexps, regexes, or regexen) is a string that describes or matches a set of strings, according to certain syntax rules. ... IFRAME is a tag used in web page designing. ... JavaScript is an object-based scripting programming language based on the concept of prototypes. ... Macromedia Flash, or simply Flash, refers to both the Macromedia Flash Player and to a multimedia authoring program used to create content for it. ...


Unlike most of its competitors, Adblock doesn't come with pre-installed set of filters. A popular third-party filterset for Adblock is Filterset.G. Filterset. ...


The last official release of Adblock, with a baroque version number Adblock 0.5 development build 2 nightly 42, works with all major releases of Mozilla Firefox, including version 1.5. A version is a state of an object or concept that varies from its previous state or condition. ... A version is a state of an object or concept that varies from its previous state or condition. ...

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Alternate versions

Due to stagnation in the upstream development, some forked versions of Adblock have been created, including additional, frequently requested, features. In software engineering, a project fork or branch happens when a developer (or a group of them) takes code from a project and starts to develop independently of the rest. ...


AdBlock Plus

The most popular is Adblock Plus which has the following additional features:

  • Whitelisting
  • Added support for blocking background images.
  • The ability to block DIV sections allowing a much greater range of images to be blocked.
  • Can hide ads on a per site basis instead of globally.
  • Various bugfixes.

In addition, AdBlock Plus fixes the memory problems that users often experience when running Adblock with Firefox 1.5. [1]


See also

Macromedia Flash, or simply Flash, refers to both the Macromedia Flash Player and to a multimedia authoring program used to create content for it. ... Ad filtering or ad blocking is a service available in some web browsers which allows advertisement pictures, Flash movies, and sometimes even website frames or scripts to be blocked from being run in the browser. ... Online Advertising is advertising on the internet. ... Firefox extensions are software plugins that add new features to the Mozilla Firefox web browsers. ...

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Macromedia Flash - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (3525 words)
The file format specification document is typically obtainable by subscribing to Macromedia's membership system and license restrictions.
Probably due to wide usage of Flash in web advertisements, tools have emerged for blocking Flash content in some or all web sites, or temporarily or permanently turning Flash Player off, such as FlashBlock and Adblock for the Mozilla Firefox browser.
Many web sites rely on Flash being available by default on a user's web browser and will not check to see if it has been disabled.
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