Facing problems while browsing because of all those annoying ads? Follow this step by step guide and learn how to block ads in firefox

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Introduction:

Advertisements on webpages exist in a lot of different forms for example images, text, video and even animations. Many browsers come with an inbuilt solution to block much of such annoying advertisements. With that said, a lot of free ware extensions are also available that help do the job for you. From annoying pop ups to video advertisements, all kinds of advertisements can be removed from your webpage. In this tutorial, we will teach you how to block ads in firefox.

Step # 1 -- Opening up the Options window

First of all, let's check out the default options firefox has that helps in blocking annoying advertisements. For that you will need to open up the options window.

To do that, open up the firefox menu and click on options. For those of you, who are used to the menu bar, go to tools and over there you can find options.

Step # 2 -- Advanced Javascript Settings

Once the options window opens up, move over to the content tab. As per the default settings, Firefox can block pop-ups, not load images and not run Java or JavaScript while browsing. You can change the settings to give more rights to the browser, for example allowing popup windows to open when browsing.

Step # 3 -- Ad Block Plus Extension

Although firefox does limit this to a certain extent, it's not enough. For that, you will need to download specific plug-ins. For firefox, the ad block plus plug-in does the trick for you.

Once the plug-in has been added to your browser, open up any website. Let's log in to our hotmail account to see if that annoying banner towards the right side of the inbox is still being displayed.

Step # 4 -- Viewing the plug-in activity

Notice the Ad Block Plus icon at the bottom left of the browser. If you move your cursor over it, you can get all the details related to the current page, for example the number of items being blocked on the website, etc.

Step # 5 -- Changing the Preferences

In firefox, ad block plus logs all the data of your activity so you can monitor and change each and everything that you can view or want to block. To make changes, click on the icon and move to Filter Preferences.

Step # 6 -- Adding Custom Filters

Over here, move to the custom filters tab and here you can add specific filters and actions to the plugin to block ads in firefox more effectively. For example you can target specific url's from where you don't want the content to be loaded.