can Firefox block "pull-ups"?

[Larry Smith]

My primary browser is Firefox altho' I do have IE on my PC.

I like to check the boxscores on espn.com and have found the past few
days that when I do this with Firefox a number of annoying ads by the
U.S. Army Reserve pop up. I think they refer to themselves as
pull-ups.

When I looked at the same thing using IE with Free Surfer Companion
installed those pullups don't happen.

So is there a setting or an extension one can use that will definitely
keep those annoying ads away while using Firefox?

TIA

 

[Old Gringo]

My primary browser is Firefox altho' I do have IE on my PC.

I like to check the boxscores on espn.com and have found the past few
days that when I do this with Firefox a number of annoying ads by the
U.S. Army Reserve pop up. I think they refer to themselves as
pull-ups.

When I looked at the same thing using IE with Free Surfer Companion
installed those pullups don't happen.

So is there a setting or an extension one can use that will definitely
keep those annoying ads away while using Firefox?

TIA

If you don't have this installed, it might help:
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=10&application=firefox

 

[Old Gringo]

My primary browser is Firefox altho' I do have IE on my PC.

I like to check the boxscores on espn.com and have found the past few
days that when I do this with Firefox a number of annoying ads by the
U.S. Army Reserve pop up. I think they refer to themselves as
pull-ups.

When I looked at the same thing using IE with Free Surfer Companion
installed those pullups don't happen.

So is there a setting or an extension one can use that will definitely
keep those annoying ads away while using Firefox?

TIA

After paying my first visit to espn.com, I believe you will also need
this one:
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=10&application=firefox

 

[Larry Smith]

After paying my first visit to espn.com, I believe you will also need
this one:
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=10&application=firefox

Aren't those extensions that you have suggested the same. Aren't they
both for Adblock?

I have mixed feelings about bringing that one back. Recently I was
finding that Firefox would open and only show a blank page. The only
way I got that to stop happening was when I uninstalled the Adblock
extension that I previously had there.

It's a puzzlement.

Thanks for the help though.

 

[Larry Smith]

Aren't those extensions that you have suggested the same. Aren't they
both for Adblock?

I have mixed feelings about bringing that one back. Recently I was
finding that Firefox would open and only show a blank page. The only
way I got that to stop happening was when I uninstalled the Adblock
extension that I previously had there.

It's a puzzlement.

Thanks for the help though.

Well I held my breath and reinstalled Adblock. Unfortunately the
pullups continue.
It appears that they are Macromedia Flash animations so the answer may
be in using Flashblock.
http://flashblock.mozdev.org/

Since I don't really want to do a full reinstall I may have to wait
for Firefox 1.1 before getting rid of this annoyance.

 

[jimpgh2002]

Well I held my breath and reinstalled Adblock. Unfortunately the
pullups continue.
It appears that they are Macromedia Flash animations so the answer may
be in using Flashblock.
http://flashblock.mozdev.org/

Since I don't really want to do a full reinstall I may have to wait
for Firefox 1.1 before getting rid of this annoyance.

Flashblock works with FF 1.0+ At least it does for me.
Between that and adblock I never see any ads using FF. The
"customizegoogle" extension even removes the ads from the search
results. Cool.

 

[Larry Smith]

Flashblock works with FF 1.0+ At least it does for me.
Between that and adblock I never see any ads using FF. The
"customizegoogle" extension even removes the ads from the search
results. Cool.

The warning on the Flashblock page was that they strongly suggest one
does a full reinstallation of FF before installing Flashblock.
Did you do this or just bring it in the normal way?

 

[Old Gringo]

The warning on the Flashblock page was that they strongly suggest one
does a full reinstallation of FF before installing Flashblock.
Did you do this or just bring it in the normal way?

I just did the normal way and it worked fine for me.

 

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The warning on the Flashblock page was that they strongly suggest one
does a full reinstallation of FF before installing Flashblock.
Did you do this or just bring it in the normal way?

They don't mean a full uninstall/reinstall of /Firefox/. They
recommend that before you upgrade Firefox, you fully uninstall
FlashBlock then reinstall it after the upgrade to Firefox. Also, if a
newer version of FlashBlock becomes available, don't install it over
the old one and don't use the auto-updater to install it; fully
uninstall the old one, then install the new one.

 

[jimpgh2002]

The warning on the Flashblock page was that they strongly suggest one
does a full reinstallation of FF before installing Flashblock.
Did you do this or just bring it in the normal way?

The normal way.
BTW, if you go here - http://www.pierceive.com/
you can add "filterset.G" to work with the adblock extension.

 

[Larry Smith]

After paying my first visit to espn.com, I believe you will also need
this one:
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=10&application=firefox

A quick word of thanks to the several persons who gave me good advice.
I have installed Flashblock and visiting the ESPN scoreboard site is
no longer an annoyance.