Adblock-Plus How To

Matthew Flaschen matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu
Sun Jan 25 03:05:34 UTC 2009


Leonard Chatagnier wrote:

> Well, thanks Mark, for the tip as I slap myself across the face.  I thought
> I had rebooted but after restarting firefox it was listed in the tools menu.
> Still wondering though, if the js command I ran on the install.js was correct
> and why the error output if command was correct.

It was not correct.  You can not run AdBlock Plus outside the context of
Firefox.  And it was already installed; you just had to restart Firefox.

> Not knowing a thing about using java or java script, knowing might start my learning process.

JavaScript is unrelated to Java, other than the confusing name.
JavaScript is a scripting language.  It is used on many websites, and is
also part of the implementation of Firefox as well as Firefox plug-ins.

Matt Flaschen




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