how do I block the annoying social media tabs that open on the left side of web pages. these totally block what I am trying to read. I do have ad block plus
I have ad block plus with its extension element hiding helper. Yet these annoying social media tabs still open on the left side of many pages. This makes the available reading area small. I do not want this on my screen,,any body know how I appreciate any and all help Thank you kindly Bry
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Many web pages have those *%##$((^%# things. There are two things you can try. 1) Use AdBlock to block the elements of the picture. 2) Go to the web page. After the page is loading, mouse to the address bar and LEFT click the icon. A window for displaying site information should come up. Select More Information. Now select Media. Go thru the menu and select Block on anything with Facebook (and the others) as its address.
I have been looking for an add-on that will do this, but haven't seen one.
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You can check for recently installed suspicious or unknown extensions.
Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions (Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem.
- Switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance
- Do NOT click the Reset button on the Safe Mode start window
- https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Safe+Mode
- https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes
Do a malware check with several malware scanning programs on the Windows computer. Please scan with all programs because each program detects different malware. All these programs have free versions.
Make sure that you update each program to get the latest version of their databases before doing a scan.
- Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware:
http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php - AdwCleaner:
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/adwcleaner/
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Antivirus/Removal-Tools/AdwCleaner.shtml - SuperAntispyware:
http://www.superantispyware.com/ - Microsoft Safety Scanner:
http://www.microsoft.com/security/scanner/en-us/default.aspx - Windows Defender:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/using-defender - Spybot Search & Destroy:
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html - Kasperky Free Security Scan:
http://www.kaspersky.com/security-scan
You can also do a check for a rootkit infection with TDSSKiller.
- Anti-rootkit utility TDSSKiller:
http://support.kaspersky.com/5350?el=88446
See also:
- "Spyware on Windows": http://kb.mozillazine.org/Popups_not_blocked
Chosen Solution
Many web pages have those *%##$((^%# things. There are two things you can try. 1) Use AdBlock to block the elements of the picture. 2) Go to the web page. After the page is loading, mouse to the address bar and LEFT click the icon. A window for displaying site information should come up. Select More Information. Now select Media. Go thru the menu and select Block on anything with Facebook (and the others) as its address.
I have been looking for an add-on that will do this, but haven't seen one.
thank you
Modified by tarabryan
FredMcd...Thanks mate..perfect..I did figure out another way to do it with adblock...not sure how I did it lol...I was clicking oveer top of the buttons and randomly clicking on adblock options till they went awat ( probably couldnt repeat it LOL so im grateful for your having taught me!