Good Afternoon to all
I must thank Brian for the help he gave me in blocking the Ads on Safari.
I also have Firefox which i like to use, but i have the same problem with ADS.
I went in the preference and did find a comment on blocking ads
but nothing happens when i block them.
Any suggestion anyone

                                                        Plume ( French)
                                                       Feather( English)

There is a pop-up blocker "switch" in Firefox, similar to Safari's, and it is located in the Contents section of Firefox's Preference panel. If you've clicked that "on", then you won't see pup-up ads - those that appear in their own window. It won't block in-page ads though - is that what you mean?

If so, then you need an ad-blocker add-on for Firefox. There are many on the Firefox website. PageTweak is just one, but it adds ad-blocking and Flash-blocking, video download, etc., etc.

Most ad-blockers work by automatically blocking traffic from "known" ad-providers, and learning new ones that you flag. If you just want to black Flash ads - which are usually the culprit in slow page loading times (the Ottawa Citizen site comes to mind!) - there are some Flash-blockers as well, like Click-to-Flash, which blocks all Flash content, but allows you to play just the ones you want to see.

Hope that helps, I'm sure we could all do with a bit less advertising.

Happy Mac'ing!

Dan

Hey,
I tried this and it helps a little.
http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/#top

Wow! That's an impressive collection of nasty URLs! But it only helps a little?

Anyway, that's sort of like the list that the ad-blacker software uses to avoid ads, but this has a whole bunch of other "bad" sites blocked as well, and some shortcuts as well!

Don't try this unless you're comfortable with text-editors and Mac OS X internals.

Happy Mac'ing!

Dan

Good Evening Dan
I found the Software Click to Flash and installed it.
I find it to be a very good Software.
It as stopped at least 95% of those crazy ads, what a difference.
Thank you again Dan for your reliability.
Chalk another on up.
                                                        Have a good evening Dan
                                                                      Plume

I also use the replacement host file from Dan Pollock's site, someonewhocares.org, as mentioned by Sean de and Dan Millar. I find it very effective.

And I agree with Dan, that prerequisites to this approach are familiarity with the terminal.app and standard sys admin best practices:

• Make a backup copy of the existing /etc/hosts file
• Use sudo to update the existing /etc/hosts file with the contents of someonewhocares.org
• Remember, in the unlikely event one actually want to connect to a site in DanP's list, that you have modified your hosts file.  (e.g. I couldn't understand why the ConsumerReports.org site (i'm an online member) was showing broken links, until I remebered to check my modified hosts file. Yup, sure enough, this particular server, oascentral.consumerreports.org (online magazine sales...), was in DanP's list.)

Note: A common source of unintentional modificiations of the etc/host file is the use of iOS jailbreak tools. They add an entry for Apple's iOS servers to prevent iTunes preforming a check against Apple's own servers, then often omit removing the entry, causing incomprehensible error messages when someone tries to perform a legitimate iOS update down the road.

you could try this software:
Javascript Blocker
DoNotTrackMe
Ghostery

source: MacWorld online.

they are free, and easy to control on the fly.