AdBlock Plus Adds Support for Fennec

Thanks to Fabrice Desré and Wladimir Palant, development builds of AdBlock Plus support Fennec! The port embraces Fennec’s minimalistic design asthetic – exposing only a simple options UI. However, this is more than enough to make a great impact on browsing in Fennec.

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Besides reducing the visual clutter on web pages, ad-heavy pages load noticeably faster! As Wladimir notes in his post, AdBlock Plus will only work in nightly builds of Fennec (version 1.0b6pre). Install a nightly version (including desktop versions) or use the new nightly update channel from your Maemo device. He also mentions that work to improve the first-run experience is coming in future releases.

Install a development build of AdBlock Plus by navigating to https://adblockplus.org/devbuilds/adblockplus/ using Fennec and click on the most recent XPI file. Fennec will step you through installing the add-on.

7 Replies to “AdBlock Plus Adds Support for Fennec”

  1. Thank you so much for this. Now it’s just a matter of seeing how long it takes for my N900 to be delivered unlocked to Australia. It may not be until after the official 1.0 release!

  2. HI,
    I’m really new at extensions but i have an ideia and i want really enter in the contest so i’m doing a high effort to can complete my extension before 7 of december.

    I created this directory: C:\Users\Zé\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Fennec\Profiles\tep0vwfr.default\extensions\metropt@graphicalnation.com

    My install.rdf is:

    metropt@graphicalnation.com
    metRo IT
    1.0
    bla bla bla
    José Xavier
    2

    I want to start to cread the extension and i have two questions:
    -can i add a button to control bar?
    -I read that in Fennec it rendered HTML and drawn into a element, i want to know if i can drawn something inside that canvas per example a blue box. When we click somewhere inside the canvas and if it a hyperlink it will open that link, so the Fennec have the information about the points where we can click?

    Thanks,
    José Xavier

  3. HI want to start to cread the extension and i have two questions:
    -can i add a button to control bar?
    -I read that in Fennec it rendered HTML and drawn into a element, i want to know if i can drawn something inside that canvas per example a blue box. When we click somewhere inside the canvas and if it a hyperlink it will open that link, so the Fennec have the information about the points where we can click?I I HAPPY TO WRITE U THIS

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