Click the icon to learn more or make an exception. (A) The shield icon toward the left end of the address bar usually turns a bit purplish when content is blocked. Read this answer in context 👍 0 All Replies (2) AdBlock is used by more than 1 million Firefox users to block ads in Firefox, improve page load speed, and help protect their privacy. There may or may not be a number on the icon indicating the number of blocked items you sometimes need to click the button to see what's going on and test whether you need to make an exception for this site. AdBlock for Firefox is an ad blocking add-on (or browser extension), which means it blocks Firefox ads and prevents advertisers from tracking you across the web. (B) Extensions such as Adblock Plus, Blur, Disconnect, DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials, Ghostery, NoScript, Privacy Badger, uBlock Origin or uMatrix usually provide a toolbar button to manage blocked content in a page.

See: Enhanced Tracking Protection in Firefox for desktop. Could you:įirefox's Tracking Protection feature, and extensions that counter ads and tracking, may break websites that embed third party content (meaning, from a secondary server). One user reported that their ad blocker was hiding the contacts, perhaps due to a layout change by Yahoo. Or switch browsers and try to see if your speed comes back.Hi parkplacebooks, I've seen five similar reports today so far. Check to see if your email speed comes back.ģ. Create a second user in firefox and do not load up any add-ons. Delete all your history, cookies and cache in FF and turn off Adblock, see if this gets you anywhere.Ģ.

There are complaints all over the Yahoo help pages, with most starting off pointing at something happening since FF11 came along.ġ. Finally I also tried opening in alternative browser (Chrome), and did not have the problem, and is running Adblock Plus (beta). When I add in Adblock, slows to a crawl.īut when I choose to disable Adblock for, Yahoo speed comes back, fast, but not as fast as no Adblock. However, when I use a FF user that is completely clean, no add-ons, Yahoo comes back full speed. Click something, wait up to 30 sec to receive a response. Suddenly email has slowed to the point of almost being unusable.

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