Adblock plus showing ads?

You may have noticed that recent versions of Adblock plus do not filter out certain ads. Here is how to get rid of this “feature”:

First you go to Tools → Addons → Extensions → Adblock Plus to open the Adblock Plus preferences and click on Filter Preferences…

Adblock Plus preferences

Alternatively you can right-click on the Adblock Plus Icon (an octagonal stop sign with the text ABP on it) to open its context menu and select Filter Preferences… or use the Ctrl+Shift+F shortcut. No matter which method you use, simply open the Adblock Plus Filter Preferences window.

In this window go to the Filter subscriptions tab and uncheck Allow some non-intrusive advertising.

Adblock Plus Fiter Preferences:
Filter Subscriptions → Allow some non-intrusive advertising

That's it.

FxIF

FxIF (Firefox exIF) allows you to view meta information data contained in JPEG images. Most digital cameras add EXIF data to all images you take and much editing software adds or allows you to add more informations on the picture and you the creator.

Install order for Firefox add-ons

Allow me to suggested an order in which to installing Firefox add-ons. Note that you typically need not restart the browser after installing each and every add-on. However, I cannot guarantee that not doing so will not run you into trouble.

First of all you should ensure that you keep the configuration free from unused options. In order to do so allow me to suggest that the first add-on you install is one that helps you with this (i.e. before you mess up the config).

Note that if you manually modify config settings it may be a good idea to document what you did. Otherwise you will sooner or later forget for what purpose you made which modification and it may even occur that you altogether forget that you made a certain modification – and chances are that you will need to recall precisely that forgotten detail.

• Preferences Cleaner - Restart after installing this add-on to make sure that it is in place before you install anything else.

Now you should add some protective measures:

• Adblock Plus
• Adblock Plus Pop-up Addon
• BetterPrivacy
• Cert Viewer Plus
• Certificate Patrol
• CS Lite Mod
• Element Hiding Helper for Adblock Plus
• Ghostery
• NoScript
• NoRedirect
• Redirect Cleaner
• RequestPolicy

Once the above add-ons (or at least the ones in bold) choose from the other add-ons listed on this page. Allow me to start with a set of suggested add-ons that aim at tuning Firefox:

• Add-on Update Checker
• Copy Link URL
• CopyTitle
• Disable Ctrl-Q Shortcut
• Download Statusbar
• Downloads in Tab
• Element Properties
• Extended Statusbar
• Extension Options Menu
• Fasterfox Lite
• Find To Center
• Hide Find Bar
• Is It Compatible?
• Load Tabs Progressively
• Multi Links
• Open Image In New Tab
• Open in Browser
• OPML Support
• SiteLauncher
• Popup ALT Attribute
• Print Edit
• Restartless Restart
• Scriptish
• Secure Or Not
• Stylish
• Tab Mix Plus
• Text Link
• Textarea Cache
• ToggleDocumentColors_
• Tools > Options… for Linux
• UnloadTab
• User Agent Switcher
• Vertical Toolbar
• View as Text
• XHTML Mobile Profile

The purpose of the next bunch of add-ons is providing features to Firefox that are not site-specific:

• AutoPager
• Bookmark Highlighter
• ChatZilla
• CheckPlaces
• Copy ShortURL
• FireFTP
• FireSSH
• Flagfox
• FlashGot
• NetVideoHunter Video Downloader
• Quick Locale Switcher
• Screenshoter
• Shrunked Image Resizer
• Space Next
• URL Flipper
• Video DownloadHelper

This bunch of add-ons improve the GUI:

• Bookmark Autohider
• ColorfulTabs
• CuteButtons - Crystal SVG
• HashColouredTabs+
• Hide Menubar
• Hide Tabbar
• lolifox - Fierr MOD
• Movable Firefox Button
• Padlock
• Tile Tabs

The next bunch is for looking up words and phrases:

• Dict.cc Translation
• LEOs Dictionaries
• Perapera Chinese Popup Dictionary
• rikaichan

Finally here is a bunch of quite site-specific tools:

• Discreet Tab Badge
• FireSoup
• Google Documents Viewer
• Google Shortcuts - All Google Services at a glance...
• GoogleReaderPlus
• GReader Panel
• OptimizeGoogle
• ProxTube

You may wonder why I am so insane that I wrote this text. Actually this has little to do with sanity – the above documents in which order I actually added the listed bunches of add-ons after my Firefox config had gotten too messy ☺

2012-01-02, 17:46 UTC: I removed Easy App Tabs from the list as its feature is provided by Tab Mix Plus.
2012-01-02, 18:3 UTC: Added GoogleReaderPlus (forgotten)

Quick Locale Switcher

Quick Locale Switcher allows you to quickly switch to a different language (User Interface, Spell Checker Dictionary and Website content) in your Mozilla application.

Preferences Cleaner

Preferences Cleaner allows you to automatically track installation or uninstallation of Firefox extensions. When uninstalling an extension, you can automatically remove all its preferences. Alternatively, you may opt to remove them later manually.

rikaichan

rikaichan is a Japanese to English/German/French/Russian dictionary. Just hover the mouse pointer over a word, and a popup with both the reading and the meaning appears. The add-on automatically de-inflects verbs and adjectives and has a detailed kanji view. For Dictionaries see http://rikaichan.mozdev.org/.

Perapera Chinese Popup Dictionary

Perapera Chinese Popup Dictionary allows you to look up the pronounciation and meaning of any Chinese word that occurs on a webpage by just hovering the mouse pointer over it. Dictionaries for English (built-in), German, and French are available, it supports Pinyin and Zhuyin as well as simplified and traditional characters.

• Perapera Chinese-French Dictionary File
• Perapera Chinese-German Dictionary File

Copy Link URL

Copy Link URL copies the URLs of selected links to the clipboard.

Extended Statusbar

Extended Statusbar provides a Statusbar with speed, percentage, time and loaded size (similar to Opera's one)

Multi Links

Multi Links lets you open, copy or bookmark multiple links at the same time rather than having to do them all individually.

HashColouredTabs+

HashColouredTabs+ improves tab identification by providing a small colored icon for any site which doesn't have its own favicon.

Is It Compatible?

Is It Compatible? displays Firefox or Thunderbird compatibility versions for each addon in the addons window

Load Tabs Progressively

Load Tabs Progressively limits the number of concurrent loading tabs and/or unread loaded tabs. A good idea if you have many open tabs and/or tend to open many tabs at once.

Print Edit

Print Edit allows editing of the web page content while in Print Preview mode. Editing the web page prior to printing can compact the layout and remove unwanted content such as adverts, sidebars and blank pages. Any element can be formatted, hidden or deleted.

Secure Or Not

Secure Or Not allows you to identify which links on a page are secure and which are not, where “secure” means an encrypted connection, nothing more, nothing less.

Hide Find Bar

Hide Find Bar hides the Find Bar after a certain interval of inactivity has elapsed.

Hide Tabbar

Hide Tabbar allows you to hide/unhide the tabbar by just pressing a key.

Open Image In New Tab

Open Image In New Tab adds a context menu item for opening images in new tabs.

UnloadTab

UnloadTab unloads inactive tabs in order to save resources. An unloaded tab is restored back to its original state when you need it again. Features include automatic and manual unloading of tabs, control over tab loading at Firefox start-up, and exclusion of tabs from unloading.

User Agent Switcher

User Agent Switcher adds a menu and a toolbar button to switch the user agent of a browser. Especially helpful for those “intelligent” sites that do not display due to a User Agent string their creators were not aware of.