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Problems installing Adblock Plus

Postby James » Sun 10 Oct, 2010 10:24 am

My son keeps receiving error messages that prevent adblock plus from installing on his computer.

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Any ideas? He has the latest (not beta) version of Firefox on his Mac.
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Re: Problems installing Adblock Plus

Postby iJohnE » Sun 10 Oct, 2010 8:30 pm

Tell your son to download the .xpi from here:

http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla ... +tb+fn.xpi

Then, save it to is desktop. And open it in Firefox using File>Open.

It should then install.

That error means that firefox was having trouble authenticating with the server. It might have something to do with his ISP or DNS. Don't know, but installing it locally should help.
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Re: Problems installing Adblock Plus

Postby James » Sun 10 Oct, 2010 9:12 pm

Thanks, John, but for some reason, the link doesn't work. :(
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Re: Problems installing Adblock Plus

Postby iJohnE » Mon 11 Oct, 2010 8:17 am

I might not have typed it correctly, I was doing my best from the screenshot. Here, lemme grab the link from Mozilla.

Try this one: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/downloads/latest/1865/addon-1865-latest.xpi
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