Missing Banner Ads?

**unixken** · 2nd March 12, 04:17 PM

Anyone ever seen this (or seeing it now?)
In Firefox, I'm not able to see the vendor banner ads that would normally appear at the top of a page such as http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/

However, viewing the same URL from Internet Explorer, I see the banner ads.

Is there a cache or cookie issue that I should be looking into, or some Firefox-only peculiarity about the banner ads, that I'm not aware of?

**brewerpaul** · 2nd March 12, 04:30 PM

No problem with my Firefox in Linux

paul@scout:~$ uname -a
Linux scout 2.6.38-11-generic #50-Ubuntu SMP Mon Sep 12 21:17:25 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

**artificer** · 2nd March 12, 04:34 PM

Do you have Ad Blocker or similar installed in FireFox? That would stop them from appearing.

ith:

**seanachie** · 2nd March 12, 04:38 PM

Also, are you running the latest version? In Windows it, according to my Help|About is 10.0.2. Can you replicate this with any additional sites you use?
Just trying to narrow down possibilities.

**unixken** · 2nd March 12, 04:39 PM

Originally Posted by artificer

Do you have Ad Blocker or similar installed in FireFox? That would stop them from appearing.

ith:

I didn't even think of that, yeah. That was the problem. I must have used IE the last time I logged on from this laptop. ::face palm::

**kscowboy1866** · 3rd March 12, 03:38 PM

I use firefox for all my internet browsing and I dont see the ads because I have a plugin called Ad Blocker. This speeds up browsing considerably on many websites.

**McClef** · 4th March 12, 05:39 AM

Moving to Tech Questions.

**Deirachel** · 6th March 12, 01:35 PM

I use AdBlock Plus in FF. I would suggest for those sites one wishes to still be there which have banner ads, manually add an exception to the filters. I've got Xmarks and a few other forums in mine, for example.