Topic awaiting preservation: FF Question

So I've pretty much won a convert as the first part of this message indicates... but the problem he's having I cannot figure out... Help would be appreciated. Also when he refers to Explorer he means IE.
Anyway... any help... great. =)

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I downloaded Firefox, and that tab feature is very nice, particularly for my
grain marketing stuff, as I can have charts, futures markets, commentary,
etc. all open there for the perusing. Cool.

One thing I have noticed, and I don't know how to change it, but I'm sure
there must be a way. I've been watching the Masters golf tournament
leaderboard at www.golfweb.com/tournaments/masters/leaderboard. If I go
there using Explorer, the picture on the right hand side, which is
advertising is blocked by Explorer, and my view of the leaderboard is not
interrupted by the intermittent transfer of data that changes that picture
every few seconds. I'm not sure where to choose that option in Firefox. As
it is, the screen refreshes every 10 or 15 seconds without any prompting
from me to change that advertisement. Mildly irritating to say the least.

I went to Tools, Options, Privacy, and unchecked the "allow sites to set
cookies" box, reasoning that Explorer Privacy Report indicates Blocked
stuff, but that didn't fix it. Could be Explorer's pop-up blocker doing the
job?

Is it possible to set something in Firefox to fix this, or would I need
another piece of software when I am using Firefox to block this?

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I thought it might be IE pop-up blocker but apparently not... wait a minute... I wonder if he did a reboot. That always seems to fix everything... doesn't it? =)

Look for a FF extension called "adblock"

{{edit - https://addons.update.mozilla.org/extensions/?application=firefox/

it's in the 'top extensions' listed at the top

(Edited by DL-44 on 04-09-2005 23:53)

Ahhh.. ok. Different animal... different gun. =)
Thnx..

Tools->Options>Block Pop-up Windows.

Worked for me.

Still a no go it seems...

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I give up.

I downloaded ad block and even though I block the same cookies as IE says it is blocking, I still get a refresh every 10 or 15 seconds on Firefox that is not happening on IE. In addition to that, there are even some that IE says it is blocking, and if I block those with adblock in Firefox, I don?t get the leaderboard image.

Seems simpler to me just to use IE this weekend on that website! It may even be that there is some kind of ?auto-refresh? thing in Firefox to reflect changing scores in the golf tournament that is set to do its thing on a more frequent basis than what IE is. I?ve done a cursory perusal of features, and can?t find anything.

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Would be nice to figure it out... but obviously not essential. =)

This doesn't appear to be an ad issue but some scripting stuff.

I couldn't and didn't want to reverse engineer all the JS on the site. But there is this bit of script:

<!--



var agt=ua.toLowerCase();

var badMAC = ( MAC && (agt.indexOf("msie 5.0")>0) )  ? 1 : 0;



// if IE then make theLeader td for updating

if (IE && !badMAC) {

    document.write('<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td id="theleaderdata">Loading Data...</td></tr></table>');

    }

// else if windows NS or Mozilla then lbT will be written and page set to refresh

else if (DOM || NS4 || badMAC) {

    document.write('<pre>' +  theLeader + '</pre>');

    setTimeout("location.reload()",150000);

    }



// -->

Anyway this isn't ad related it's how they are updaring the leaderboard. They are doing it seperately for FF and IE



.:[ Never resist a perfect moment ]:.

Ok... Great...thanx. We won't seat it then. =)

But interesting.

Try Nuke Anything. It will let you right click on this leaderboard and select an option to remove it. It only works one time however, and it will appear again if you reload or subsequently visit the page.

With adblock installed:
right click on annoying picture--> choose "adblock image"
Or ad

An other option would be using the anidisable extension
1) install anidisable
2) right click on anoying image
3) select anidisable choose either:
- "Normal" shows an animated gif normaly
- "Once" shows the animated gif normaly but just one time then freezes the gif
- "None" the gif is frozen and won't be reloaded


<edit> right the page keeps reloading, and keeps putting in ad on the right side and the topright.
After right clicking the top image i could block this by choosing "adblock iframe" which complety blocks the iframe which holds those annoying add (they seem to use both animated gifs and flash movies...)

When right clicking ont he righ side image i was able to block the images by changing the adress in the adblock popup box to

http://images.sportsline.com/images/ads/*

After that even other ads apeared on the right, and i needed to make another adblock rule this time i changed the adress in the pop-up to

http://m3.doubleclick.net/*]

Even an third add adress was used so i also blocked

http://www.golfweb.com/ads/*

Where the star stands for all files in a lower level on the adres/folder.

This took out the adds however the page keeps refreshing it self...
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(Edited by Rinswind 2th on 04-11-2005 03:35)

R2: Thanx for that.. I'll pass it along. He's new to the 'alternative browser' side of things period but
he's waaaay quicker than yer average no-fear bar so I'm sure he'll give it a go.

Had another email from my friend since... and other than 'this' particular hitch he's really
quite enjoying the 'experience.' Nice to see if for no other reason than... how do I put this??
Just seeing somebody kinda go...' wow this is kinda cool I wasn't aware 'alternatives'
were available... now what can you tell me about this 'Opera thing?' Just 'opening eyes'
I guess is what I'm trying to say. =)

'Cool Beans' as someone is wont to say. =)

(Edited by NoJive on 04-13-2005 03:52)

You might want to give him some shades, with his eyes open the bright wordl could scare him....

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