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August 12, 2008

@@Facebook

Since the new facebook was launched I had been having strange and annoying problems with it: I could access a direct link to a facebook page, but if I clicked any links (say, to my profile home, or an application) the page would pretend to load and then go nowhere. Reloading within the browser would be the only way to "get" to the clicked link. This was happening in the Firefox installs I had at home (Mac) and at work (Win).

It seems this was/is a pretty common problem and tied directly to the Ad Block Plus add-on. Long boring story short, I've found that if I add either of these exceptions to ADP:

@@http://www.new.facebook.com or @@|http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/*/ads/$script

...Facebook actually works.

Anyone know of a way to actually block the ads (right column) within Facebook?

Clampants | August 12, 2008 09:34 AM