ad block in OmniWeb
I'd appreciate a bit of advice. I've never been able to get Adblock to work correctly in OmniWeb.
Let's say I wanted to go to block the OMNI logo at the top of the forums. The url is: [url]http://forums.omnigroup.com/images/omni/omnilogolarge.gif[/url] Why doesn't adding *\.gif* to the blocked URLs list get rid of the image? ("From blocked URLs" is checked.) *omnigroup* doesn't work, either. Where am I going wrong? (This is on the 5.5 "sneaky peek", but I had the same issues with 5.1; I just checked to make sure. This is so obvious that I'm just going to assume I'm doing it wrong, not that it's a bug.) |
It would be /.\*.gif I believe (at least that is what works for .swf).
However, the easiest way by far to block specific images is to control-click the image and select Filter Image from the contextual menu (it may be in the Image sub-heading). If you want to make it less specific, open the Blocked URLs list and trim back the automatically regexpressed URL to the level you want. Edit: Made a typo (see later posts). This should have been /.*\.gif |
Thanks for that tip Jonathan.
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you could always use a custom CSS sheet and tell OW to use that for the default pages.
Look for it [URL="http://www.floppymoose.com/"]here[/URL] |
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However, the easiest way by far to block specific images is to control-click the image and select Filter Image from the contextual menu (it may be in the Image sub-heading).[/QUOTE] Hrm. I tried that and it wasn't blocked. :/ Tried reloading, tried restarting OmniWeb. Is there anything else I could be doing wrong? Should I post a bug report or something on the sneaky peek board? |
Do you have anything in your White List? If you have anything related to the filtered URL, could it be superseding your filter in the Black List?
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[QUOTE=JKT]Do you have anything in your White List? If you have anything related to the filtered URL, could it be superseding your filter in the Black List?[/QUOTE]
Nothing. Here are some screenshots to demonstrate my attempt to block the OMNI logo: [URL="http://locker.uky.edu/~jhcunn3/adblockshot1.png"]My preference pane[/URL] [URL="http://locker.uky.edu/~jhcunn3/adblockshot2.png"]My black and white lists[/URL] This is with 5.1. 5.5 is concurrently installed, but I had this sort of trouble before. Edit: fixed second link |
[QUOTE=Paranoid Randroid]Nothing. Here are some screenshots to demonstrate my attempt to block the OMNI logo:
[URL="http://locker.uky.edu/~jhcunn3/adblockshot1.png"]My preference pane[/URL] [URL="http://locker.uky.edu/~jhcunn3/adblockshot2.png"]My black and white lists[/URL] This is with 5.1. 5.5 is concurrently installed, but I had this sort of trouble before. Edit: fixed second link[/QUOTE] What happens if you remove all the entries in your black list except for the Omni logo? |
Hey, that worked - thanks! Was there something objectionable about something else on the list?
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We have a bug that if one item in the black list doesn't correctly parse as a regular expression, all following items are ignored (or is it all items--I forget).
It's on our internal list of bugs, but since it was true in 5.1, it's not a priority for 5.5 until all the 5.1 features work again. |
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