Adblock Plus - Increase Browsing Speed and save traffic by blocking Ads
Everyone of us on the internet want to surf as quickly as possible so here we are with a software that does that not directly but indirectly. Many times all of you might have experienced a situation in which an ad heavy takes so much time and bandwidth that you prefer to close that site. Today, 90% of the internet websites are filled with ads which takes far more time than the actual site contents to get loaded into your browser. The solution for this is to either don't visit these ad heavy site ( I know for most of you that's not possible ) or to block the ads that are actually responsible for slowing your browsing speed from getting loaded into your computer.
Adblock Plus is an excellent software for blocking ads o
n website in your browser. It can block almost 99% of the internet ads. The only thing it lacks that it is not IE compatible but it works absolutely fine with Firefox, Thunderbird, Seamonkey, Flock and Songbird.
Here is the procedure to get this great software on a PC with Firefox 2.0 installed:
- Click Here for downloading the Adblock Plus.
- Once the download in complete, confirm the setup in the dialog box by clicking the Install Now button.
- Next, you will be asked to restart the firefox. Click on the Restart Now button.
- Firefox will be restarted and you will be asked to Add Filter List. For making it easier for the new users, they have some pre-built list of filters to which you can subscribe. I liked the Easy List of filters and selected that.
- Now sit back, open a site and see the difference.
The default settings works absolutely fine and blocks most of the advertising on websites however you can also add a filter to your subscription list manually and optimize it for better performance. For this you will have to go to Tools | Adblock Plus. Now, click on Add Filter and add the url of the advertisement to be blocked.
Another feature that I liked about Adblock Plus is that you can manually tell it what items to be blocked. For this you will have to perform the following actions:
- Click on the Adblock Plus Menu on the Firefox toolbar.
- Select "Open Blockable Elements" to open Blockable Item List at the bottom of your browser.
- Now, click on any element and it will take you to the exact position of that element on the site and mark it with a blinking border temporarily.
- Now, if you have figured out what element to block, right click on that and select "Block This Item".
Overall, adblock works perfectly and I have experience a great experience in my browsing speed and savings in traffic which were previously consumed by those unwanted ads. The only thing that I would love to see adblock IE compatible. Nevertheless, adblock is a complete package for blocking unwanted ads and thus increasing your browsing speed and saving traffic
