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g-damn bing popups....
does anyone know how to turn them off in firefox?! it drives me nuts. i looked through the settings and don't see a way to do it.
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01-31-2010, 04:28 PM
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nope. i am not talking about it popping up a new window, i am talking about the little ad windows that pop up when your pointer travels over the highlighted text. i did find the answer.
you edit the "hosts" file and add this line at the bottom: 127.0.0.1 bing.com it requires a reboot.
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01-31-2010, 04:39 PM
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*shrug*
Have you tried the Mozilla adblock plug-in? I use Google personally so I don't know, but it works for everything else.
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01-31-2010, 04:41 PM
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i hate bing, it sucks, the search engine sucks, the format of it sucks. blah blah blah.
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01-31-2010, 04:55 PM
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I use NoScript - JavaScript/Java/Flash blocker for a safer Firefox experience! - what is it? - InformAction and ad-block.
Just curious but why use bing?
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01-31-2010, 04:59 PM
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Where do you find this hosts file for IE8? Whenever I read MSNBC I despise those pop-up Bing ads.
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01-31-2010, 05:02 PM
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do a search of your hard drive for the file "hosts", no extension. open it with notepad and add the line. save the file. reboot. it should work.
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01-31-2010, 05:10 PM
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bing has embedded ads all over in web page content. the owners of the pages get paid for the ads. foxnews has them, ducati.ms has them, reuters has them. i think our local news has them. they are ubiquitous.
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01-31-2010, 05:12 PM
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OK, I found Hosts in several places but assumed it was the C:/ file to be changed. I added the line but it wouldn't save: it gave Save As with choices: .txt or All files *.*
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01-31-2010, 05:20 PM
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you may have trouble overwriting the file because it is a system file. i have all that "safety" BS disable on my machine. i've been hacking stuff for years.
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01-31-2010, 05:25 PM
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I can probably edit it in Safe Mode.
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01-31-2010, 05:39 PM
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Oh, I see. Rollovers.
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01-31-2010, 05:56 PM
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exactly.
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01-31-2010, 05:57 PM
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Good news / Bad news
Good: Editing the Hosts file is as simple as running Notepad in Administrator mode. Bad: After reboot, those hot links to Bing still operate. 
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01-31-2010, 06:25 PM
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Crap like that is just another thing that keeps me using Google.
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01-31-2010, 06:41 PM
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I tend not to use sites that have inline ads. That's one advertisement that I find obnoxious and in my way. I return the notion by not visiting the site anymore.
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