Poor Brian. Poor well-meaning but misguided Brian. (I'm giving him a
hard time as we have been having conversation off list.)
Mario, let me help you out.
If you're using Adblock Plus on Internet Explorer, the installer is a
good old-fashioned Execute file. It creates a folder in Program Files,
which is what Mike referred to earlier. In that sense, it is a program
of sorts. And the way you edit the settings for Internet explorer is
from an HTML document in that folder, which is the address Mike referenced.
Brian is correct that in Firefox (and presumably in Chrome too) it's an
extension or add-on. So you are correct that it doesn't create a program
folder for you. However, Brian can see things we can't see, like
toolbars. So he's directing you to a toolbar which would be perfectly
correct if you could find it. I wish we could access it that way,
because hovering over that toolbar button shows you the number of ads
blocked on the current page, which I think would be kind of fun to see.
But it doesn't work that way for us. The good news, however, is that in
Firefox, on the Tools menu, at the very bottom--right below Options--is
an Adblock Plus submenu (as JAWS reads it), that will take you to the
options screen. You don't get to see how many ads have been blocked, but
you can easily manage your settings that way.
Hope that clears up any confusion.
Brad
On 1/4/2016 6:45 PM, Brian Vogel wrote:
Mario,
You're not missing anything. Adblock Plus is not a program and
thus does not have any entries in either "Program Files" or the
"Program Files (x86)" folders.
The actual location of the Adblock Plus stuff is dependent on
which browser you're referring to, and I'd be happy to try to locate
it for you and can check on my Windows 7 machines if necessary.
The reason I posted about the buttons in the browser is
because the Options setting that pops-up or drops-down when you click
it is generally how one interacts with Adblock Plus settings for a
given browser. If you are able to get to that button give that a try,
as it's safer to try to tweak things via the user interface rather
than directly editing underlying files whenever possible.
Brian
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