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    Re: So something strange just happened to me...

    Which version of Firefox? I am still using 23 but was about to consider installing 37. But if I'm going to get ads...
    I have a Toshiba Satellite C50D laptop with 3.4 GB of RAM and (AMD E1-1200 APU @ 1.4 GHz with Radeon HD Graphics) x 2 processor; (older posts refer to 8.04, 9.10, 12.04 on this or other hardware).

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    Re: So something strange just happened to me...

    So far,I'm not seeing them..That's all we need,more stupid ads we have no interest in.
    A friendly & helpful Linux community who has started a large cursor theme project. If you are sick of tiny cursors, go here and get one.
    http://linuxinternationals.org/forum...orum.php?f=166

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    Re: So something strange just happened to me...

    Ah, yes. I see. I seldom open a blank new tab, and for me personally the ads there aren't bothersome. Not like content-blocking popups or embedded video.

    Oh, these silly Mozilla geek devs. I was curious about the mouseover effects -- I use NoScript -- and found the page uses XUL. I was not aware of the Ghost-buster references in XUL, but there it is in the page source:

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    xmlns:xul="http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul"
    Sheesh.

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    Re: So something strange just happened to me...

    the problem of too much stuff...

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    Re: So something strange just happened to me...

    well i think the reality is that mozilla receive very little money from donations, unlike wikipedia for example. so to stay alive they must work something out with businesses

    mozilla's total revenue 2012: $311 million [google]
    mozilla's total donations 2014: $3.2 million

    wikipedia's total donations 2013: $50 million

    i am not sure of the running costs of mozilla, but i have vaguely glimpsed them on their website, if someone cares to look

    also interesting to note, as a european myself, is that north americans donate almost double per person than europeans, to wikipedia. but anyway
    Last edited by fkkroundabout; April 22nd, 2015 at 07:22 PM.

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    Re: So something strange just happened to me...

    I personaly use Midori, not Firefox. I stopped using Firefox when i found out they supported Net Newtralaty. (Sorry if I spelled something wronge, spell check doesn't want to work.)

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    Re: So something strange just happened to me...

    Have you heard of AdBlock Plus? It's an open-source, free adblocker plugin for literally every web-browser out there.
    "That's not a bug, it's an undocumented feature!"
    All things are possible except skiing through a revolving door.

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    Re: So something strange just happened to me...

    Quote Originally Posted by Kpenguin View Post
    Have you heard of AdBlock Plus? It's an open-source, free adblocker plugin for literally every web-browser out there.
    Does that also block the ads the Firefox itself puts up?
    I have a Toshiba Satellite C50D laptop with 3.4 GB of RAM and (AMD E1-1200 APU @ 1.4 GHz with Radeon HD Graphics) x 2 processor; (older posts refer to 8.04, 9.10, 12.04 on this or other hardware).

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    Re: So something strange just happened to me...

    It can if you want it to. You can pick and choose which ads you want it to block, and which ones you don't. You can create custom parameters for it, or tell it to block certain images/text.
    "That's not a bug, it's an undocumented feature!"
    All things are possible except skiing through a revolving door.

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