(Nowadays, following the explosion of new TLDs, hostnames you’d probably never guess are bound to show up, like “”) It accommodates use of patterns which can be as generic/greedy as, say, “teens”… such that a single line, a single entry will match/block countless hostname variations. FWIW, the dns proxy/caching app I’m using (since around 2006?) is freeware “dnskong”.
Forty Million plus hostname entries last I checked (it’s updated approximately monthly), and it still doesn’t adequately cover the bases.Īlthough I employ a dns proxy blocklist (which contains 475,000 _patterns_, not hostnames) I wouldn’t rely on it as a “first line of defense”. It’s analagous to the game “Whack-a-Mole” ~~ you keep adding and adding and adding and ADDING hostname entries, playing reactionary catch-up and never entirely keeping abreast of the newly-added hostnames.Ĭase in point: Lookup “shallalist”, a categorized blocklist maintained and distributed by a (french, IIRC) university intended for use in/on firewall appliances. Still, if you don’t trust Mozilla’s server you can run your own without much trouble.Attempting to handle / block via HOSTS file is an “exercise in futility”. Add to this encryption, all data is being encrypted locally before being sent to the server - so while the server can tell how many bookmarks you have, it won’t be able to read the actual data.
Adblock plus mozilla update#
Weave works with single bookmarks rather than taking the list as a whole meaning that this update will not affect the other bookmark changes you’ve performed in Fennec in the meantime (those will simply be uploaded to the server so that Firefox can get them on next sync). And next time Fennec syncs this bookmark will simply appear in your bookmarks list while the browser is running. On next sync (which you can trigger manually) this change will be uploaded to the server.
Adblock plus mozilla Pc#
So for example, you might have Fennec running on a Pocket PC and Firefox on your desktop, both logged into the same Weave account. Weave is a pretty cool extension, it lets you sync your Firefox/Fennec data (history, bookmarks etc.) across multiple computers via some server - and that while the browser is running, no need to restart it. And now I had to solve the same problem, this time for the Mozilla platform. But that wasn’t necessary anyway back then. The visible bitmap was static meaning that it wasn’t possible to show the selected country on the map. How do you present the user with a map and let him choose a country? Back then I ended up using Win32 API and two bitmaps - one to display to the user and a second invisible bitmap to let the application translate clicks into actual countries by checking the color corresponding to the click position. Ten years ago I already had to solve this problem. This idea didn’t end up being used for anything but somebody else might find it useful.
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It allows selecting areas of complex shape on an image - e.g.
Since everybody is talking about Firefox 3.5 demos these days I though that I would dig up one that I created myself in November. Selecting countries on a map in Firefox 3.5
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