system-config-network broken?

Marc Williams marcw at onlymooo.com
Mon Jul 12 11:52:44 UTC 2004


On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 12:30:58 +0100, Simon Andrews wrote:
>  > Marc Williams wrote:
>  > About 26,000.  All of them (except my local entries, of course) point
>  > to 127.0.0.1. They're advertising, popup, and banner sites.  Makes my
>  > browsing faster by an order of magnitude.  I found it at
>  > http://webpages.charter.net/hpguru/hosts/hosts.html .  I like it.
> 
> Maybe it's time to look at:
> http://adblock.mozdev.org/

Why?  What would that get me that I'm not getting now?

I'm reluctant to start bloating up my browser with extensions (I have two
small ones now) unless there's a real benefit.  But if there is, I would
do it in a heartbeat.  As it is right now, I see few ads and there is no
intervention required on my part.






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