decent Adblocking for Opera..?

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6. May 2010, 16:16:40

Posts: 20

decent Adblocking for Opera..?

I know its possible to create a url-filter which blocks ad's in the page but this leaves out two important things..

1) the browser still downloads the adverts which slows down page-loading (downloading)
2) leaves big gaps where the ad's were

Im a big Firefox fan and it is a very fast browser (if not the fastest) if you enable pipelining tweaks in the settings and use AdBlock Plus which also blocks downloading of these adverts and closes up gaps left by them too..

However, I read that Opera is now the fastest browser (matched against un-tweaked firefox) and would like to give it a go,

is there a decent tool/tweak that does the same job as Adblock Plus...?
i reckon it will be one mean sucker if it could, im loving the GUI and features so far...

thanks

Connection: ADSL2+ 13Mbps / 1Mbps
Hardware: Netgear DG834GT 108Mbps
Software: Opera 10.53
Happy?: Yes...!

6. May 2010, 17:04:39

artmil

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Posts: 368

1) the browser still downloads the adverts which slows down page-loading (downloading)

No it dose not download the blocked content, its not chrome

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2) leaves big gaps where the ad's were

There are userscripts that help you remove(hide) html blocks

Krita.org
Opera: 12.1x

6. May 2010, 17:13:25

snadge

Posts: 20

thanks for your replys...

so it doesn't download the ad's?
well thats great...it will definitley be faster than firefox now...

I have url filter I copied & pasted in from fanboy from here -> http://my.opera.com/Tamil/blog/ad-block

I will have a look at those link...

what other good features is there?

Connection: ADSL2+ 13Mbps / 1Mbps
Hardware: Netgear DG834GT 108Mbps
Software: Opera 10.53
Happy?: Yes...!

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