[ale] firefox 12, adblock and cache clearing

[Jim Kinney]

Hmm. I'll check the first system and which adblock is running. 
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"Lightner, Jeff" <JLightner at water.com> wrote:

>From the way it was written I suspect Adblock and AdblockPlus are two separate plugins. I've been using ABP for a few years now and have been quite happy with it. It appears some plugins for Firefox have similar names and some of the comments lead one to believe people do this on purpose to suck you into using the wrong one.





-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Tim Watts
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2012 10:44 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] firefox 12, adblock and cache clearing

Your experiment would suggest that it has nothing to do with adblock, right? What else is different between the 1st & 2nd systems? What if you disabled/removed adblock on the 1st system?

(Not seen on ubuntu/FF12, btw)


On Mon, 2012-05-28 at 22:33 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:
> Firefox 12 is running and a system with adblock has no apparent way to
> dump the browser cache. A second system (same Fedora and patch level)
> is not running adblock and does show cache dumping ability in tools.
>
> So I loaded adblock plus on the second system and can still access
> cache dumping in the tools menus.
>
> Anyone else see this?
>
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