12.14.07
AdBlock Plus for MicroB
I know a lot of people love blocking ads and now there’s an effective way to handle this on your Nokia Tablet. Adblock Plus has been developed from the full Firefox version to work on the tablet. I’ve yet to try this on my own system, but here are a few shots of what to expect…
Before:
After:
I’d recommend reading the installation and usage instructions as there are a few differences in what’s possible on the tablet from within Firefox.
Technorati Tags: maemo, microb, mozilla, extensions, adblockplus, n810, n800, OS2008
Olivier said,
December 14, 2007 at 1:14 pm
OMG! Finally! I’m so happy! That’s one of the most useful thing for an Internet Tablet. All those ads slow down underpowered devices like the N8xx and this will help us get a much improved Web 2.0(tm) experience.
Thank you to the devs of this!
Ok, on my way to make a donation now…
Cheers!
pupnik said,
December 15, 2007 at 11:36 am
Web designers simply make bloated sites that can bring a modern 300-watt PC to its knees. Loading it down with flash, java, javascript and scads of links to external code.
The devices are not ‘underpowered’. You are implicitly comparing performance on a portable device that consumes under 1 watt of power to a device that consumes 300 watts of power. If you can grasp what this means, you will not call them ‘underpowered’ again.
smo said,
December 15, 2007 at 12:06 pm
Nice work! Just one problem: Starting the browser takes much longer (5-7seconds?) than before. Does this problem just exist for me(N800+OS2008)?
smo
Jonathan Greene said,
December 15, 2007 at 1:05 pm
I actually can’t get this to work on my n800. no change in load time and no way to set prefs
raf said,
December 15, 2007 at 3:05 pm
sadly it does not work for me on a N810 with 1.2007.42-19
rw said,
December 22, 2007 at 7:19 pm
I’ve been using privoxy on my n800/os2008 as my adblocker and works pretty well with the default settings.
IRC-URLs.net said,
August 17, 2008 at 10:17 am