The Adblock Project

VijchtiDoodah · Joined: 30 May 2005 Posts: 5

This just started recently, but I have found that Adblock is not only causing my computer to give me random pop-up messages that tell me that ActiveX is performing an illegal operation (generally when I visit sites with flash on them), but it's also crashing firefox.

I love Adblock and hate the fact that I had to disable it. Is there a way to still have adblock installed but not get the bugs, ie. an older version or some work-around?

Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance.

AmirG · Joined: 26 Mar 2005 Posts: 119

Are you sure it's Adblock-related? Firefox has no built-in support for ActiveX.

VijchtiDoodah · Joined: 30 May 2005 Posts: 5

Yeah, it only happens when adblock is on. I've tested to see if any other extensions were acting up, but only adblock is.

Is it possible that I may have blocked something that would cause this kind of an error?

AmirG · Joined: 26 Mar 2005 Posts: 119

Can't tell, I've never seen this error. Can you give me a specific URL to test?

MW · Guest

this might happen if:

you have an activeX plugin for mozilla installed AND OBJ-TABS in AdBlock is enabled

possible solution(s)
1. remove activeX plugin
2. Disable OBJ-TABS in AdBlock

VijchtiDoodah · Joined: 30 May 2005 Posts: 5

I don't have the activeX plugin (at least, I never installed one...), and I'll check to see what I can do with the OBJ-TABS in Adblock just to be sure.

As for a specific url...I suppose newgrounds, or ugoto.com...I'm going to turn on adblock in a second to mess with the options, I'll tell you then.

Edit: Disabling OBJ-TABS did the trick. Thank you for your help!

Now, down to business, what did I just do?

Zachariah · Joined: 21 Jul 2004 Posts: 703 Location: Earth

Type about:plugins into the address bar [url=http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=206213]?[/url] to see if it's installed.
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VijchtiDoodah · Joined: 30 May 2005 Posts: 5

It also seems that I have the Mozilla ActiveX plugins installed, but I never would have installed those myself...

"Mozilla ActiveX control and plugin support

File name: npmozax.dll
Mozilla ActiveX control and plugin module

MIME Type.....................Description.....Suffixes..Enabled
application/x-oleobject....ActiveX..........*.ocx......Yes
application/oleobject.......ActiveX..........*.ocx......Yes"

^^Just for reference, to make sure I'm reading that correctly.

Alright, will someone tell me what I should do? Should I just leave adblock with the OBJ-TABS disabled? Should I uninstall ActiveX and, if so, what will that do to my computer?

kstahl · Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 Post subject:

Just leave Obj-Tabs disabled and use Flash Overlay (ctrl+shift+f) when you need to block Flash ads.
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VijchtiDoodah · Joined: 30 May 2005 Posts: 5

Should I leave OBJ-TABS off after that, or turn them back on?

AmirG · Joined: 26 Mar 2005 Posts: 119

My advice is to leave them off, even if they weren't the cause. They're ugly, they cause major problems on several sites and you can do without them - just use "Overlay Flash" instead.