Admuncher

[AWS]

I know Cindy uses this. I am starting to use IE more and more. I do have custom accelerators to filer websites. Problem is it leaves empty spaces all over the sites when it removes ads.

I am used to Adblock on Firefox and Chrome which removes not only the ad it also removes the ad container.

So before I go to installing this does it remove everything so I'm not left with a bunch of empty space when an ad is removed?

Will I be able to then remove the other filter lists I have enabled?

Last question. Does this work as well as Adblock and will I be able to use this as a replacement for Firefox?

 

[allheart55 (Cindy E)]

I think AD Muncher works better than AdBlock Plus and it absolutely can be used as a replacement for AdBlock in Firefox.

Rich used to use it all of the time with Firefox.

It does remove both the ad and the ad container. You can't even see that the ad was ever there to begin with.

You can actually use AdBlock and Ad Muncher together, they don't seem to interfere with each other or cause problems together.

I've been using them both without any issue for the last month.

 

[Rich-M]

True I never removed Adblock Plus and was going to when I installed Ad Muncher on both desktops but then didn't see a reason to.

 

[AWS]

The problems I've been having with Firefox lately all stem from using Adblock and Noscript. My plan is to create a new profile after I install Admuncher and only load the extensions I need which are minimal.

As much as I'd like to use IE 100% of the time I can't. I need Firefox so I can use Firebug to debug style issues. If I didn't have Firebug I would still be working on the styles for the site.

Looks like I'll be installing Admuncher and starting fresh with Firefox one more time.

 

[Rich-M]

Bob have you ever tried Pale Moon? It is Firefox but without the issues. It is a Mozilla browser that takes all the Firefox addons.

 

[DSTM]

I use IE and Firefox.
I have 250 speed dial entries in Firefox and I am not going to give them up.
Wish IE had a speed dial similar to FF

 

[N3]

Rich.....What about the pdf problems you are having with Pale Moon?

 

[allheart55 (Cindy E)]

Rich.....What about the pdf problems you are having with Pale Moon?

He figured it out and it's all straightened out now.

 

[N3]

Cindy......I want to know how he figured it out? I may remove Firefox & go to Pale Moon.

 

[allheart55 (Cindy E)]

Cindy......I want to know how he figured it out? I may remove Firefox & go to Pale Moon.

It's here, N3. Chrome Beta

 

[AWS]

I found the main culprit of my Firefox problems. It was Adblock Plus. I removed it and all the issues I had disappeared. I installed Admuncher and all is good. Firefox issues cured and full ad blocking with no left over containers in IE and Firefox. It even works with Opera which I rarely use anymore.

 

[Rich-M]

N3 I finally realized I had to go into "Tools", "Options", "Applications" and then make sure all "Adobe Document Types" Actions are set to "Adobe Reader" and then pdfs are a piece of cake. I was 75% home with an addon called "pdf viewer" but that did not handle embedded pdfs such as checks in banking software but this fixed it! I have Adobe Acrobat installed which contains Adobe Reader and you would have thought as I did that handled all pdfs as well but it didn't and this small change fixed the whole problem possibly because I have Adobe Acrobat 9.0 installed which is really not the current Adobe Reader version. Now I am quite happy with Pale Moon as it is so much more stable than Firefox and I never had any other issues, but to have to leave Pale Moon before and open Chrome or IE to read a check in a bank statement drove me straight up a wall, otherwise I never would have left. I also didn't like that you don't see "Downloads" without opening "Tools", "Downloads" but Bob reminded me of the toolbar addon and that solved that issue.

 

[Rich-M]

I found the main culprit of my Firefox problems. It was Adblock Plus. I removed it and all the issues I had disappeared. I installed Admuncher and all is good. Firefox issues cured and full ad blocking with no left over containers in IE and Firefox. It even works with Opera which I rarely use anymore.

Bob it is a great program and I had been using it for about 13 years and basically sent everyone to it, but there is an issue you will see and that is when you search for something if you use Google for searches as most of us do where about 1/2 those searches will come to a whited out page with the words "Ad Muncher" on the top left and that is what made me uninstall it 2 years ago. Since that time it became "Open Source" and one of the reasons I believed this happened was their inability to solve that issue and the issue is still there. That is the reason I changed the Search Bar to "DuckDuckGo" which is pretty decent though not as good as Google but offers no ads. I am just letting you know when you first strike the issue you will be baffled if I did not say this! You can right click the "cow" and choose "disable filtering" to get past it but it becomes super annoying and eventually you will leave it off if you search a lot. That is 50% of the reason I am suggesting Pale Moon as "DuckDuckGo" is the default Search Engine and it is a "tamed" Mozilla
browser without the issues of FF.
I also believe that Ad Muncher is a major weapon in the prevention of Malware BTW!

 

[AWS]

I always search Google directly from highlight phrase and right click. Rarely visit the site to search. So far I haven't see an issue on my search results.

 

[DSTM]

I am not experiencing the issues you are having, Rich.

 

[Rich-M]

Bob can you explain what you are doing there.

 

[allheart55 (Cindy E)]

there is an issue you will see and that is when you search for something if you use Google for searches as most of us do where about 1/2 those searches will come to a whited out page with the words "Ad Muncher" on the top left and that is what made me uninstall it 2 years ago

The issue is not still there, Rich. It hasn't done that for me since I installed it a month ago. I got rid of it for the same reason that you did but that problem no longer exists. I don't know what it is that you are seeing.

 

[Rich-M]

I am so glad you said that Dougie as you caught me on my Windows 7 desktop and it doesn't happen here either. Whatever I am seeing with the Google Ads on all searches is happening only on my Windows 8.1 desktop and I never noticed that before. You know I always felt there was something about Windows 8 that by default let in all kinds of advertising and now I know it. I could not search on any browser on that All-in-One without coming up with the ads on the right side of the page and the first two listings marked as ads.

 

[Rich-M]

When I move to the back later today I am going to get my laptop out and see if the same is true there as well as that also has 8.1 Windows.

 

[AWS]

I am using Windows 8.1. If I want to search for something when I visit a site I will right click and highlight what I want to search. Then right click and select search Google. I don't know if this is an extension or a default feature of Firefox. I've been using it so long now I can't remember.