adblock plus & ghostery problems with firefox

Has anyone else experienced problems with Firefox 6.x or Firefox 7.x beta with the Ghostery & Adblock Plus addons, in which sites like my.yahoo.com or lowes.com, or others, in which if you try a search from my.yahoo.com when logged in, or pulldown menus at a site like lowes.com. I have not had any problems until around 9/12/11, when something changed either at the sites, or with updates to either addon.

The problem I am getting with my.yahoo.com, is when you type something into the search box on the webpage, then click on the web search button, you get nothing, just a dead response as if the button is not there. With Lowes.com, the pulldown menus along the top do not work, even though you can mouse over, they do not show up.

I only figured out that it was both ghostery & adblock plus in either one form or another, that together they did not work with the two sites mentioned, or by their ownself, that either site was broken by the two addons. As of now, I have removed both from firefox, until I get a response from the authors that they have found a solution.

Now of course in turn with not running the addons, is plenty of adverts on websites, and of course tracking, which is why I used ghostery.

 

I've had adblockplus installed forever and have noticed no change. Both those sites work fine for me.

I'd put my money on Ghostery causing the issue. Try clearing your FF cache and reinstalling adblockplus and see if you still have the problem at lowes.com.

(I'm going to give Ghostery another chance sometime this weekend because I like the idea of it but it blocks comments from loading on one of my favorite sites. I'll test out lowes and yahoo with it installed and let you know how things go.)

 

Since I have both addons, I just disabled Ghostery, tried lowes.com and indeed Ghostery seems to be the culprit. You may want to whitelist the websites' urls you mentioned in Ghostery if you wish to use those sites until the developer (perhaps) comes up with a solution.

 

Hi oma,
It was your post about security addons that got me started with Ghostery. Because I added so many addons at once, it took me a week to figure out why I couldn't see comments on that one blog. I didn't work out how to whitelist a site--I'll have to look into that. I really do like the idea behind Ghostery.

 

Hi sach2. I haven't whitelisted any url yet in Ghostery since there hasn't been a need for that for me so far. But since that option is available, it should work. Perhaps I should have tried it out prior to posting to try it out but atm Ghostery is disabled for now. Just too lazy to enable and restart to try it out. :-D At least for now we know it's Ghostery causing the OP's problem.

 

It must be some compatibility problem between ghostery and firefox 6 & 7. I have firefox 3.6.22 with Adblock Plus and ghostery. I went to Lowes and have no problem with the pull-down menus. I did have to temporarily allow the web page because of my No-Script add-on.

 

Well, I just enabled Ghostery, whitelisted lowes.com in Ghostery and saved, (temporarily allowed NoScript) and the site buttons work. Using atm the clone of Fx, Palemoon browser v 6.0.2.

EDIT: Removed www(dot)lowes.com from the whitelist in Ghostery and saved. Then I revoked the temporary allow NoScript for lowes.com and the site's buttons again are no longer working.

May work for my.yahoo.com as well.

 

I should have been more clear in that I did not have to whitelist lowes.com in ghostery. Sorry.

 

Oma and tgell, you might be interested in this thread since you use all those security addons. It is what has me interested in Ghostery again. It seems to be a suite of security addons (from the sreenshots) much like oma's original thread. I was going to give it a try this weekend but it looks like the developer found a bug so I will hold off.

 

sach2, I just use Adblock Plus, Ghostery and NoScript. That's all. Glad that the developer will look into it.

Now I tried lowes.com again and this time I only had to temporarily disable the NoScript and the drop down menus worked. WTH is going on? :confused Perhaps the OP has NoScript addon as well? OK tgell., you won.... for now... Thanks!

 

I actually dumped both, and now using AdvertBan, which replaces both Ghostery & Adblock Plus. White listing both sites, I am able to use them as before, with no problems. I would definitely write up the before mentioned problem of not being able to search from the search field in my.yahoo.com & the pull downs for lowes.com as a issue with both before mentioned programs.

Disable both Ghostery & Adblock Plus, I was able to use both sites, turn either program back on, or both, problems.

 

That is what I am thinking. I dumped both as previously stated, tried out advert ban, it worked, so I paid to support. It is now my fav, since it is painless to set up and run.