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Hello Maemo community

I personally like Firefox and AdBlock plus and as we know a new version of AdBlock was released


Now, what this means for us? Well since MicroB is based on Gecko engine and its still faster then Fennec naturally comes the question what if we had AdBlock for it as well?

There was an old version of it in the repos and another one was released a year ago.. The problem with these versions? It was impossible to subscribe to filters or even if you did it wouldn't block ads, hence there was no point of having it

Ok now comes the interesting part

In order to install AdBlock plus you need to do have Filebox installed and follow this instructions



1. Download the archives from here adblock.zip and here patterns.zip

2. Extract it and save on N900

3. Now open filemanager and just click xpi , MicroB should open up and install it

4. Now wait till MicroB asks for a restart. As we know it wont restart automatically so just close it , open terminal and type this code 5. Now open MicroB again and make sure its there

6. Open FileBox and copy the patterns.ini file to this location



Note: You will be asked to overwrite the file

7. Kill Micro again 8. SUCCESS, filter is updated and now you can enjoy ad free web

Some things to keep in mind

1. Updating most likely will not work so if you want to update your filter just use Fennec and then replace the above mentioned file when its old

2. In Fennec you can subscribe only to 1 filter at a time, I'm not sure if its the intentional limitation to avoid slowdowns. But I think this doesn't really matter just use 1 filter based on your location


Most of the credit goes to the author of this amazing extension and I just figured out how to install it on MicroB

I used the one described on here:
http://browser.garage.maemo.org/news/12/

and it's been working great for like a year... But maybe it can be adapted to the newer version.

That version wasnt working for me for some reason

Strange, I've just tried the 1.3.5 version here, 1.3.9 straight from Firefox repo and both load the subscriptions file..and thats all. Doesn't filter anything (tested on slashdot for example).

Reverted to version from garage and it works.

Damn it! I tried all 4 versions.

1.0.2 from repo, 1.1.1 from garage, 1.3.5 from here and 1.3.9 from Mozilla add-ons and not one of them works.

I can add filters and subscribe to blocklists which even update, but every freaking ad is still there.

I restarted, killed and even removed the extensions and adblock folders in /home/user/.mozilla/microb everytime.
Nothing helped.

Any suggestions?