

If you have the " Adblock Plus" extension, you also need to install filters - without filters, the extension will do nothing. Features: Easy to add customized filter and whitelist items with help from menus and by manually creating your own filters. Filters are required - "EasyList USA" subscription is recommended to start with - additional subscriptions and your own filters can be added as well. Eliminating ads helps protect your system, speeds up downloads, and helps protect your system. Ads, particularly third party ads, are a primary source of malware and viruses. Adblock Plus provides more flexible filtering to deal better with annoyances than it does with malware, Both types should be used along with Anti-Virus protection.Įliminate ads. It should be considered as a primary protection against malware and prevalent major annoyances, but usage is not very flexible as it relates only to a host domain.

A hosts file provides cross-application protection, regardless of what Firefox profile is used or what browser is used, or other applications accessing the web. Hosts file blocks some things that cannot be blocked by extensions. This file is loaded into memory (cache) at system startup, then the system (Windows/Linux) checks the Hosts file before it queries any DNS servers and, bad domains are blocked and will not be seen. The hosts file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Hosts File is a file not an extension, it blocks ads, banners, 3rd party Cookies, 3rd party page counters, web bugs, and even most hijackers. Adblock Plus: Element Hiding Helper is a companion extension for Adblock Plus designed to make creating element hiding rules easier and is invoked from the Adblock Plus button's context menu. The original project page can be seen at - adblock: index.Īdblock Plus is an improved version of Adblock with a better user interface, and interfaces better to filter subscriptions so that your own filters and multiple subscriptions will not interfere with one another. Adblock as an extension in current Firefox versions is dead replaced by Adblock Plus.

It can hide graphics on pages, block them from ever loading, block JavaScript files, embedded frames (IFRAMEs), and Flash movies. Adblock is an extension for Firefox and the Mozilla Suite.
