Reviews for AdBlock for Firefox
AdBlock for Firefox by AdBlock
3,463 reviews
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 13602447, 7 years agoThis is a really poor app. A lot of the on screen prompt instructions are very technical and I have no idea what they mean. And perhaps the most idiotic: There a feature to 'block a particular ad on a site'. I've used it and it works pretty well. But it's only a visible option when the page or site is already blocked. So why block an ad when all ads on the page or site are already blocked? Makes no sense.
So, to carry that further, I'm thinking I'll unblock the site but selectively block ads on the site. But once I unblock the site or page, the option to block a specific ad is no longer available.
Very poorly designed, poorly thought-out app. I'll try some others. They may be just as convoluted, but I'll try.Developer response
posted 7 years agoHi, and thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts with us! We have a feature called "Block an ad on this page." It's available at all times when AdBlock is running, whether or not any ads on the page are being blocked or there are any ads at all. It can be used to hide things other than ads. Obviously, it can't be available when the extension is paused or the page or site is whitelisted, because AdBlock isn't running then.
However, you can also use AdBlock to exclude specific filters to see ads that have been blocked or hidden. That would allow you to selectively block ads on the page. We have more information here:
* https://help.getadblock.com/solution/articles/6000066991-use-adblock-s-manual-blocking-wizard-to-block-ads-and-more
* https://help.getadblock.com/solution/articles/6000087883-how-can-i-see-what-adblock-is-blocking-or-hiding-
You're absolutely right about the on-screen help text being less than helpful. That's one of the things we're planning to improve in an upcoming release.
You're always welcome to open a ticket on our support site, https://help.getadblock.com, for help with how to use AdBlock. We want to make it as useful for you as possible. :)
- Rhana, AdBlock Community Manager - Rated 1 out of 5by jonwww-1364600639.0, 7 years agotried to add adblock, I have latest Firefox version, wasn't able to add adblock because my version was detected as an older one
no goodDeveloper response
posted 7 years agoHi jonwww, thanks for sharing your thoughts with us! I'm not sure why you got that error. AdBlock works fine with the latest version of Firefox. Would you mind opening a ticket on our support site, https://help.getadblock.com? I'd like to look into this for you. Thanks!
- Rhana, AdBlock Community Manager - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13923716, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13921894, 7 years agoI love this extension on my browser because it removes those annoying ad's when ever i find a video or searching something on the web they get in the way but thanks to this extension adblock it solved my problem i love this extension so much that's why i give it 5 stars
- Rated 5 out of 5by Madhavan Malolan, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13913454, 7 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13912045, 7 years agoAdBlock uses 200M of RAM on my machine verified with SystemMonitor before and after disabling (no other changes), the symptoms were gray unusable Firefox for several seconds frequently, this does not appear to be a bug rather a design error
Developer response
posted 7 years agoThanks for letting us know. Oftentimes, high memory usage like this can be the result of having a large number of filter lists enabled. Do you happen to know how many you have enabled? If it's more than 3 or 4, you can experiment with some of the filter lists to see if that helps.
Thanks.
The AdBlock Team - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13910761, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13907013, 7 years agoFrom the first day that I used AdBlock it became my favorite Firefox add-on.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13905825, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13905806, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13902288, 7 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 12572586, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Ian Franco, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13893506, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13892574, 7 years agoOnly problem is that some sites are blocking the use of adblock, but its very good