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Waiting for extension adblock plus how to#
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Waiting for extension adblock plus update#

We are working on some of the issues, others will unfortunately be unavoidable however. The processing of blocking rules and especially the element hiding rules is sometimes different from Firefox and Chrome.There is no first-run page to indicate that Adblock Plus was installed correctly - this is work in progress.It should show a menu instead that will at least allow disabling Adblock Plus on a website without going to preferences. Currently the ABP icon doesn’t do anything beyond showing the Adblock Plus preferences.

Waiting for extension adblock plus how to#

Of course, displaying a hint explaining how to enable the status bar isn’t a solution - we are still looking for a proper solution here. However, the status bar is hidden by default in newer Internet Explorer versions so this isn’t a great location. The ABP icon shows up in the status bar of Internet Explorer.However, it won’t shut down when the last Internet Explorer window is closed. The AdblockPlusEngine.exe process starts automatically when you start up Internet Explorer with Adblock Plus.Our primary goal was to make this work at all (which proved surprisingly difficult) and we will improve later. The user interface is suboptimal and chances are that the updater will ask you to restart Windows - sorry about that.

Waiting for extension adblock plus update#

The development builds will update automatically but the update experience is far from being great.

The goal is to have a single installer of course that will choose the installation package automatically but we don’t have it working correctly yet.

Waiting for extension adblock plus 64 Bit#

You will have to choose a different installation package depending on whether you are running 64 bit Windows or not.

There is still room for improvement of course: YouTube ads can be blocked) and also provides element hiding functionality. In particular, Adblock Plus for Internet Explorer has much better support of our blocking rules (e.g. The important news first: this work progressed to a point where we can give you development builds that are even usable to some extent - and compatible to Internet Explorer 6! In our tests it worked quite reliably and is a vast improvement over Internet Explorer’s tracking protection lists that are limited to say the least. This means that we could no longer ignore Internet Explorer and so a few months ago we started working on an Adblock Plus port to Internet Explorer. In order to change the web we need to provide all users with the option to run an ad blocker.

However, the goals of the Adblock Plus project got more ambitious since that post has been written. But you will certainly be happy to know that I was right: creating a usable ad blocker for Internet Explorer means tons of work. Remember this blog post of mine six years ago? Probably not.

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