The Adblock Project

brianK · Joined: 04 Nov 2003 Posts: 2 Location: Cranford, NJ USA

Windows 98, Netscape 7.1, Mozilla 1.4, IE 6.x

I mistakenly installed a version of Ad Block for Netscape 7.0 into Netscape 7.1. I got the message, "install successful". The only change I have experienced is that now, I cannot open Mail/News without it causing NS 7.1 to crash.

How do I fix this mess? I do have a tape drive with a pre-install backup of all the NS 7.1 files. Should I attempt a rollback, by overwriting the folder and profile folder with the backed-up files? Or, is there an easier solution.

I am fully comfortable editing prefs.js, the Registry, ini files and the like. Suggestions, advice gladly accepted.
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Brian K

rue · Developer Joined: 22 Oct 2003 Posts: 752

Uh.. considering there is no version of Adblock for Netscape 7, and that it's clearly called "Adblock", I'm going to recommend against editing any config-files.
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Definitely try rolling back.

n4cr2k · Joined: 03 Nov 2003 Posts: 7

I've had success with adblock in both Netscape 7.1 and straight mozilla.

brianK · Joined: 04 Nov 2003 Posts: 2 Location: Cranford, NJ USA

I fixed the problem by editing prefs.js. Actually the culprit turned out to be not from Adblock. I had previously added mnenhy a mail header editor. There were some ill-formed user_pref strings generated by this "utility".

I just commented out the bad entry, and will eventually delete it. It just goes to show that sometimes it's not the last thing you installed, but the next to last that you thought was stable.

Thanks.
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Brian K