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"gewg_" writes:

from the formerly-the-most-popular-browser-extension dept.

Martin Brinkmann at gHacks reports [ghacks.net]

Users of the Pale Moon web browser who try to install the popular adblocking extension Adblock Plus won't be able to do so anymore as it was added to the blocklist by the Pale Moon team.

Pale Moon users who have it installed may have noticed that it is no longer enabled either.

[...]The Pale Moon forum is usually a good place to start--reveals [palemoon.org] that the team decided to add Adblock Plus to the blocklist because of incompatibilities with Pale Moon.

I've put it in the blocklist because it has started giving severe usability issues (see the threads with "large bar with red text at the bottom of the browser" etc.). ABP should not be used on any v25+ version of Pale Moon because it's not compatible.

The compatibility issues seem to be mostly interface related when Adblock Plus is running in Pale Moon.

Moonchild, the lead developer of Pale Moon suggests to use an alternative such as uBlock [github.com], uBlock Origin [github.com], or Adblock Latitude [palemoon.org] instead. The latter is a fork of Adblock Plus that is developed and maintained specifically for Pale Moon.

[...]The most recent Adblock Plus update is also incompatible with Firefox versions prior to 29 due to the extension's support of "standard-conformant JavaScript generators syntax". This means that pre-Firefox 29 users won't be able to use Adblock Plus as well.

In the comments, Jojo says

I never noticed any problem with ABP

and Sven replies

That is exactly the problem. ABP works to a large extent but has caused a bunch of smaller and larger issues over the last couple of weeks or even month (in fact it was never compatible with Pale Moon 25). Many people didn't notice that it was related to ABP until they came to the forum and were told to switch [off of] ABP.

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