Flash video player doesn't work with the Adblock Plus Firefox add on

[sloth]

Hi,

Seems like the Adblock Plus add on interferes with the SmugMug flash video player somehow. I haven't added SmugMug to my block list but no flash comes up at all. If I disable Adblock Plus it works as expected. I've tested this with the latest version of Adblock Plus and FF 3.0 in Ubuntu 8.04 (both 32-bit and 64-bit versions) and FF 3.0 Windows XP. If would be nice if they would work together since Adblock Plus is a very nice add on to have!

/Niklas

[sloth]

I should have searched the forums first. Turns out this is already a known issue. Sorry for the noise.

[docwalker]

No problem. Adblock is a good program in some cases. But it pretty nasty about blocking sites that I want to see. I gave up and uninstalled it.

[Frode]

I've peeked around some of the other threads mentioning Adblock issues. I can't help but feel the issue isn't with the addon, but with people installing one of its default filter lists. Those tend to have funky regexes and such that can have annoying side effects.

For the record, I'm running with Adblock and have no issues. But I started out clean and have built my own list over time. If only sites would stop adding huge animated ads I'd not need it, but there's no fighting reality I guess.

[docwalker]

Something else that I just learned from a customers help...

Parental control software can mess with flash objects. So if you are running any of those, you might want to try turning them off and testing.