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This was a fine add-on for Firefox v22, until you updated to Ghostery v5.0.
When I click on Ghostery in "Tools", I see a drop-down menu as follows:
Manage Ghostery's Options...
Walkthrough
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Ghostery Blog
Nothing happens when I click on any of thes options.
Am I overlooking something?
Ghostery 5 for Firefox problems
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Hi Users,
Thanks for using Ghostery!
Very sorry for the inconvenience.. We are looking in to what is the cause of the issues. We have reverted back to 2.9.6 until we can sort things out.
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Hi Ralph,
Thanks for using Ghostery!
Can you tell me more about your set up? OS? Version? You are not alone, but we need to find out what is the route cause..Comment -
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This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Ghostery 5.0.0 freezes Firefox 22.0 on Windows 7 when trying to login to Gmail.
After updating to Ghostery 5.0.0 I tried to login to my Gmail account. I could not login until I disabled blocking temporarily.
I turn blocking back on and Firefox froze when attempting to access my Gmail account.
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CHAMP
I’m
purple-deprived
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
[Android] Where's my Alert Bubble?.
"Show alert bubble in the [top right] corner; dismiss after [15] seconds" is checked in Advanced Options. It doesn't seem to be working.
And why does a long press on the ghost threaten to do something unkind?
Firefox 22.0 + Ghostery 5.0.0 on a 1st gen. Nexus 7
This is a tablet, not a phone. I have four CPU cores, a decent amount of RAM, and, in landscape orientation, as many horizontal pixels as a conventional desktop with a 19" LCD monitor. I expect as close to the desktop experience as you can deliver.
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Hey Eric, thanks for feedback. This is queued at this point, probably next release. Long hold is something NoScript does, so we've decided to go with the same option
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I’m
frustrated
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
new version 5.0 the icon disappears from navigation bar , can't tell what trackers are blocked ?.
since latest update to 5.0 version the icon is gone so you can't tell what trackers are blocked and which ones you need to allow , will this problem be fixed ?- view 3 more comments
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Hi! While status bar Ghosty has been removed, you can drag Ghosty icon in customization to the addon bar. Addon bar is slotted for removal by Mozilla, possibly in Aurelis.
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I have the Ghostery 5.0.0 icon in Firefox 23's add-on bar as before. Only thing is, now it's almost impossible to know when blocking is active or paused. Earlier it was quite clear IIRC ("x trackers blocked"), but now there's hardly any indication at all. The icon does turn blue or gray depending on the current active status, but that's not at all obvious or even very visible since it's hidden behind the number square (see Paused = http://i.imgur.com/Birasne.png, Active = http://i.imgur.com/cMwIBh6.png for more). Can't you just make the number bright red or green so the blocking status is visible at a glance?
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This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Ghostery Status Bar Icon/tracker-count is missing in Ghostery 5.0.0 on Firefox.
Ghostery on Firefox 22.0 just updated to 5.0.0 and now the status bar icon/tracker count is gone. How do I get the Ghostery icon/tracker-count back on my status bar?-
Hi Richhome,
Thanks for using Ghostery!
You should be able to drag the icon back in to the navigation bar by using the browsers Customize Toolbar feature.
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This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Ghostery 5.0 leads to bad beachballing of Firefox on some websites. For example, http://www.thewirecutter.com.
I'm running ghostery on FF 22 (OS X Mountain Lion). It used to work fine, but now I'm seeing a freeze of a few seconds when loading pages in sites such as www.thewirecutter.com. Disabling Ghostery solves the problem.- view 2 more comments
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Just wanted to remark that since FF21, actually (I am now on version 23), every so often Ff will momentarily freeze when loading a page (2-10 seconds, usually) before freeing up again. This happens for me when Ghostery is not installed. Also, another program I have discovered to muck some things up with Ff23 is Trusteer Rapport, a so-called security program banks are steering their online banking clients towards these days--it caused me some problems with Ff url histories (mixing them up, appending parts of one url to another so that you couldn't load the page until you turned off History--removing Rapport has fixed that--so far, anyway.) Also be on the lookout for a FF extension (not plug in) called "Selection Links" as this thing installed by itself and even put its own entry into add/remove programs! (Win8x64)--and *also* game me trouble with Ff url histories--all while Ghostery was uninstalled. Neither Win8 Defender AKA MSE or MalwareBytes caught it--I stumbled upon it doing searches for possible problems, etc.
This has been the most hectic week with this kind of thing that I've had in *years.* At least it's allowed me to separate ghostery from some of this other stuff. -
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This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
The latest update broke Ghostery: it does not register trackers anymore the majority of the time. Please revert it!.
Details in title- view 2 more comments
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Home premium, SP1 (the edit button for prev comment disappeared)
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I’m
frustrated
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Drop-down list entry doesn't work.
The "New since last update" in the drop-down list doesn't appear to work. I still have to slowly scroll through hundreds of checkmarks to find the new ones. THis is now very useer-friendly.-
Hi Bill, thanks for posting. "new since last update" is intended to work when lists are being upgraded, however this is not available for a fresh install of Ghostery or an upgrade from 2.X Ghostery versions. Thanks.
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I’m
concerned.
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Ghostery 5.0 conflict with Firefox.
With the release of Ghostery 5.0 for Firefox on Mac (System 10.8.4), Firefox has become unresponsive most of the time. I don't whether the fault is Ghostery or not, but it is the only variable I know of. I was looking at Facebook when the update came, and it became impossible to use afterward. I have restarted the computer and reopened Firefox time after time without success. Also I can't fine the Ghostery Icon anymore. If I start Firefox in safe mode, everything works fine. I love Ghostery and hope that I can continue to use it. Thanks-
Hi Nellnyc,
Thanks for using Ghostery!
The icon should be able to be accessed via the Customize toolbars feature in Firefox.. Which version of Firefox are you using? -
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And what other addons do you have installed? Thanks!
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This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Display in Add-on bar option is now missing..
Ghostery v 5.0. The Advanced Display option to display the Ghostery button in the add-on bar instead of Navigation bar is gone. I would really like this option back as I hate having the navigation bar cluttered with add-on buttons.- view 1 more comment
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Not good enough. Mozilla hasn't made a final decision yet, and if Australis turns out to be a major disaster (and PR crisis), I'm happy to stick with the 24 esr series. That's what we should be targeting, especially since 5.0.0 isn't compatible with 17 esr (and that's a huge problem).
Diminishing the UX isn't progress; it's just going to drive people to abandon the product. Firefox evolves through a collaborative process, and Ghostery's developers need to be active participants. Mozilla has pronounced self-destructive tendencies, and its continued survival depends on outside intervention every now and then. That might be inconvenient, but the alternative is worse. -
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Yeah, those are definitely considerations at this point
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I’m
frustrated
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Is there a way to revert from 5.0?.
Is there a way to revert from 5.0? I got a gray notification about an update to Ghostery, but it flashed away before I could read it. I'm hoping this is a fix for (or reversion from) 5.0, since it doesn't block Youtube ads.- view 1 more comment
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I'm using 64-bit Windows 7, and Firefox 22.0. I'm not sure if this is relevant, but I'm also using the WOT and NoScript addons.
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great.. thanks!
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This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
How i displace the Ghostery Button in the Top right corner for the new 5.0.0 Version?.-
Hover over the icon, right click it and select "Customize" in the menu that shows up. After you see the customization menu, drag Ghosty where you would want him to stay.
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Hi Users,
Thanks for using Ghostery!
Very sorry for the inconvenience.. We are looking in to what is the cause of the issues. We have reverted back to 2.9.6 until we can sort things out. -
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OK. I agree with the merging of my complaint. The who upgrade seems to be botched. The icons down on my status bar are now gone, and numerous/all links have quit working. I also have web pages that either fail to load, ot I am told that the page doesn't exist! You need to revert back to something that works.
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Yes, all were marked...I have always had all blocked and nothing whitelisted. I just saw the link to revert to 2.9.6, and now the problem is resolved. I can tell you that the only unusual thing with my computer (although it's been this way for a long time) is that I have locked some macromedia folders/files so that I don't get flash cookies in the first place. I'm assuming that that probably has nothing to do with this situation though, but thought I'd mention it just in case.
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Yes, this is definitely a problem with 5.0.0, as you can see someone else started a thread about doubleclick (user LD, 4 hours ago). The problem doesn't exist in the previous version for firefox--2.9.6 is working fine.
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I’m
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also they are bloating prefs files of FF
also try removing cookies from the a page it'll hang FF
try deleting history
or right clicking view page info-security -view cookies -remove Cookies
v5 will hang FF
[gv5]
slows down FF
options dialogue missing from addons menu
to much logging [protected by copyright etc] in preferences
should be betas before major versions !
high cpu usage when cleaning history & ff hangs
LINUX & Windows FF23 FF25- view 7 more comments
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Nothing, except it only exposes what consumers are supposed to see. If I want direct access to, say, extensions.ghostery.site_specific_unblocks, I can do that in 5.0.0 through about:config. Migrating it to simple-storage takes that away.
OS X's defaults, Windows' regedit, GNOME's gconftool, etc. all have sharp edges, but at least they're available when an application doesn't provide a better alternative. Besides, some people have trust issues with security/privacy tools that keep secrets. They spread rumors that you've "sold out," or are in bed with the advertising industry. Maximizing transparency is your best defense against false accusations.
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Ahh, a good point. Can't promise it for the short term, but certainly something we'll look into longer term. Also, this maybe something worth implementing as a separate addon and release as OS project. Also, it looks like mozilla devtools will have it also built in at some point.
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to much logging [protected by copyright etc] in preferences
also they are bloating prefs files of FF
FF warning against this !-
Preferences bloat isn't just a problem for Firefox. I recently wanted to test something against the Chrome product (I normally use Firefox and Opera), and needed to be able to revert some settings. Once I found where they were hiding,
$ sqlite3 ~/.config/chromium/Default/Local\ Storage/chrome-extension_mlomiejdfkolichcflejclcbmpeaniij_0.localstorage .dump
revealed that enormous ASCII strings were represented in UTF-16LE, making everything consume twice as much storage as needed. How stupid is that?
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I'm pretty sure chrome stuff defaults to utf-16 and there are no settings to change that. I'll confirm with Alexei.
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I would really like options menu back
& what's with the new settings page ?so much waste of space
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Hi Bafna, which options menu are you referring to?
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Emotionally devastated
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Ghostery breaks image uploading on websites such as Tumblr and Imgur, is there a setting that can be toggled to fix this?.
While Ghostery is enabled, using the image uploading functions of websites such as Tumblr, Wordpress, or Imgur, causes Firefox to totally lock up. These websites operate as usual when Ghostery is disabled.
This only began after the update yesterday. Any idea what could be causing it?- view 2 more comments
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Thanks! We will update this thread as soon as we get to the bottom of things.
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I am having this problem as well, but with photos on my personal webspace, not imgur etc. Took me a bit to figure out it was Ghostery. I'm on Win 7 and Firefox 22 also. Reverting appears to have solved the problem.
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This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Ghostery 5 icon rearranges other Firefox addon icons, when placed in the navigation bar or the addon bar..
As the title says, the Ghostery 5 icon rearranges other Firefox addon icons, when placed in the navigation bar or the addon bar (but only in the bar in which the Ghostery icon is placed). Obviously it should respect the user defined order and not be doing this.
Rearranging the other icons fixes the problem only until Firefox restart. Removing the Ghostery icon from a particular bar fixes permanently the rearrangmenet of the other icons in that bar.
This is on Firefox 22.0 on OS X 10.8.4.
Please fix this.- view 1 more comment
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I can't attach a screenshot, as I downgraded to 2.9.6 in the meantime and also it would require several screenshots.
However this is what was happening after installing Ghostery 5: There was another addon icon just on the left of the URL bar (I had it placed manually there). There was no Ghostery icon in the Navigation bar at all. After upgrading Ghostery to v5, that other icon went to the right, after the search bar, together with a new Ghostery icon. So that other icon got moved and Ghostery icon was added.
Then I manually moved the other icon just before the URL bar where I wanted it to be. After restarting Firefox, it went again to the right, after the search bar. Then I moved the Ghostery icon to the addon bar, where I wanted it to be in the first place (it had disappeared from there after the upgrade and appeared on the navigation bar) and manually moved the other icon where it should be. After restarting Firefox, the other icon stayed where it should, but things got rearranged in the addon bar. If I deleted the Ghostery icon from the addon bar, the other icons would stay stable, but there won't be Ghostery icon anywhere.
Reverting to 2.9.6 fixed the issue, now icons stay where I need them to be. -
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Thanks for reporting, we'll look into this. Do you mind telling us what other addons you have and which icon you placed?
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This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
New trackers are never blocked by default.
The option "block new trackers by default" has never worked in the past 2 years with any version of ghostery 5.0.0. It might work if no trackers are whitelisted, but usually there are one or two I need. This turns frequent updates into custard because there's no additional blocking and is very bad fro a safety-point of view (luckily ghostery is not a security application).
This is now the "next" version of ghostery and the problem is not fixed.-
Block new options by default has been functional since its been introduced. Could you give me some more context? Are new bugs not blocked after updating? Do you have any other addons? Thanks!
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This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
latest update makes firefox freeze every time I try to access gmail. ff v22 Windows 8. -
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This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Ghostery 5.0.0 Function called isBug() causes performance problems..
Recently a JS-Script on my site suddenly started to cause huge performance problems with Firefox (v 22). So i made a runtime analysis with FF and found out that Ghostery.BlockingPolicy.shouldLoad() calls the function isBug() which takes years to finish. Whitlisting the site and pausing Ghostery did not help, first when I deactivated Ghostery in FF, everything was ok again. The affected JS-Script is updating a list on the site including a lot of images. Ghostery is taking action when the jQuery function buildFragment() is called. It has absolutely nothing to do with advertising or trackers. There is not a single tracker on the whole page. Does anyone have a suggestion how to solve the problem?
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thanks for detailed bug report! definitely something we will be looking into.
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This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
ghostery no longer works on youtube adds with firefox (to the best of my knowledge).
have been using ghostery for a while and just recently youtube adds came back
I have no new software or hardware
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This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Ads are blocked but have recently started showing up..
I seem to recall having updated Ghostery a couple of days ago. Now ads are showing up on Firefox even though I have them marked as blocked.- view 1 more comment
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BUT it was blocking ads until just a few days ago. Try cnn.com. Using Firefox version downloaded yesterday, 22.0. OS 10.8.4
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I'm blocking ads on cnn.. I'll post my screenshot below... cnn.com > click on US from top panel..
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This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Ghostery causes FlashDisable icon to disappear.
Ever since Ghostery updated to 5.0.0, the icon for the FlashDisable add-on disappears from the toolbar. I did not have this issue with prior version of Ghostery, and when I disable Ghostery, the FlashDisable icon stays put.
(Firefox 22.0, Windows 7-64bit)- view 4 more comments
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Did you see this message:
If you have problems with a disappearing button, please try the beta version of 0.9.4 offered below and let me know if it works.
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Tip: Try enabling Firefox's plugins.click_to_play preference before messing with third-party extensions. It may be all you need.
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Hi Eric,
Thanks for the reply.
I tried the about:config option you suggested (I already change another parameter via that capability) and, surprisingly, it does not seem to stop the playback of Flash. I checked the video's properties because I know some sites have switched over to HTML5 embedded video, and the properties say it is indeed a flash object being played back. Weird, but not surprising, as I have seen Firefox's reliability drop significantly once the rapid-turnaround development cycle was initiated a while back. There's probably a reason why that parameter has not been elevated to the regular config dialog.
I also tried flashdisable 0.9.4beta1, and the disappearing button seems to have stopped disappearing. However, in the process, ghostery updated itself to 5.0.4, so two things changed at the same time (sometimes I really dislike auto-updates).
So, in summary, with ghostery 5.0.4 and flashdisable 0.9.4beta1 installed, the disappearing button problem appears to be resolved.
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This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Widget to bring up ghostery action window gone. Can't get it back. Can't disable trackers..
Help. The ghostery icon that lets me load the window to disable a tracker is gone. I have done system restore, uninstall/re-install ghostery but can't get the little icon back. I'm using Firefox browser. Have installed Ghostery from both Firefox Add-ons and from Ghostery home page. Don't know what else to do.- view 1 more comment
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That works!!! Got it back. Thanks.
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Glad to hear it!! Happy browsing :-)
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This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Ghostery doesn't remember my preferences chosen during the wizard for the latest mac update 5.0.
Every time i start up firefox it pulls of the Ghostery configuration walk through again.-
Hi nick, what addons do you have and which version of Firefox? Thanks!
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for Randall... taken from : http://www.cnn.com/US/?hpt=sitenav .. you can see Ad blocked in the top right...
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/Users/randallgnant/Desktop/Screen Shot 2013-08-04 at 5.33.55 PM.png
I don't have the Ghostery icon. But, under Tools in Firefox, I can drop down to Ghostery. -
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This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
With Ghostery V5, alert bubble sometimes has horizontal scrollbar.
Not every time, but enough that I notice. Please fix.-
Hi Aj,
Thanks for using Ghostery!
Can you give me an example URL where you see the alert bubble with the scroll bar? -
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http://money.cnn.com/gallery/magazine...
Intermittent. Try hitting shift-reload on a page of this Money Magazine presentation. I noticed it would occur, then not occur. It currently seems random to me. -
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This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Recent Ghostery Update causes Firefox to become unresponsive for ~ 10 seconds for sbnation.com sites.
After your last update this past week, the sites under sbnation.com all load horribly slow now (sbnation is an umbrella site for multiple sport sites). Firefox (version 22.0) will be unresponsive (not responding message) for around 10 seconds before it continues loading. I also sometimes but not always get a message from Firefox about an unresponsive script: http://cdn3.sbnation.com/javascripts/...
But the constant is it always loads slow and firefox becomes unresponsive with each link on that site I try to load.
Sbnation.com and the sports sites it links to all seem to have this problem. For example, in SBnation.com, under the UFC header, you'll see links to bloodyelbow.com and mmamania.com. Both sites have the same slowdown issue so it's not just the sbnation.com domain itself with the problem.
If I disable the Ghostery script, this problem disappears. Before that I tried disabling all the trackers on that site but the slowdown persisted, only disabling Ghostery fixed it. Some change made to Ghostery with the last update seems to have caused this. Can you look into fixing it? Thanks.-
Hi Casper, please downgrade here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fire...
We've suspended 5.0 distribution and will be looking into this issue. Would you tells us the specs of your computer? Thanks! -
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Intel i5-750, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD OS and Apps Drive.
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This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Ghostery Symbol missing on add-on bar..
Why the Ghostery Symbol on the add-on bar (Firefox) is in the new version missing? I dont wont the stupid symbol in the toolbar!!!- view 4 more comments
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@Pete
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sweet! Happy browsing!!
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This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Where did everything go??.
Where did the little box telling be how many trackers there are and how many have been blocked? In fact where is any evidence that Ghostery is running anywhere? I can't even find the settings box anymore!-
Hi drrocks, have you checked your customize toolbar option? If its not ther, please reinstall here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fire...
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Thanks, Felix. My problem was fixed (by removing v. 5 and reloading v. 2.9.6), per my response before my inquiry was "consolidated".
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Thanks to everyone who has commented; your help is greatly appreciated. I was able to get the widget back on the task bar and everything is working perfectly again. -
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This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Ghostery not working after update to Firefox 22.0.
Ghostery at top-right of Firefox 22.0 fails: Clicking the blue 'ghost' gets a tutorial without showing the links. Subsequent clicks on blue ghost fails to bring up the panel one uses to activate a 'blocking' of an advertiser
At times, ghostery does bring up a list of items being blocked but only for info purposes .. it is not the same panel that one used to use to 'flip' a button to cause a site to be blocked (or unblocked) ..
My Firefox is set to use high-contrast screens, btw. All text is bright green on black.-
Hi Jon,
Thanks for using Ghostery!
Can you attach some screenshots of the panel issues you are describing and the different colors in the alert bubble? Also.. which OS/version are you using? -
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This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
user.bugs.db is not working in Ghostery 5.0.- view 5 more comments
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Hi Felix. Thx for the answer, but the errors still persist.
Editing the file store.json, the tracker is not added and, restarting firefox, the user_bugs entry is cleaned.
Adding by resource://firefox-at-ghostery-dot-com/ghostery/data/tracker.html, the tracker is added, but, for each firefox restart is added a "(U)" in the name of tracker. I've already counted eight "(U)" after the name of tracker. -
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This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Ghostery hacked!.
I noticed that Ghostery had disappeared from the toolbar and menu. In add-ons I saw that suddenly I have Ghostery version 5 !!! I know this is incorrect. Also the options button is missing.
I have reinstalled Ghostery from the site and things normal again.
Someone has intentionally f*cked with ghostery and I do not know what it might have been!!
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This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Ghostery disappears every time I reopen my browser..
I'm using Ghostery 5.0.0 for Firefox 21.0, and every time I open Firefox, Ghostery is both not in visible in either add-on bar and doesn't do any blocking. It's only after going into my add-ons settings, disabling Ghostery, and re-enabling it that it works normally, but I would have to do that every time I start Firefox. Is this a known issue? -
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This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Ghostery 5.0.0 causes Amazon sign-in to hang on Firefox 22.0..
I was having trouble with Amazon's sign-in hanging with Firefox 22.0, and I noticed that Ghostery got upgraded to 5.0.0. When I disable Ghostery, the sign-in works just fine. -
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frustrated
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Firefox 22 becomes unresponsive with Yahoo Mail and Mail.com and Ghostery 5.0.
Firefox 22 becomes unresponsive when I check Yahoo.com and Mail .com using Ghostery 5.0 add-in on both of my Windows XP machines.
I have tired whitelisting both sites but it still freezes up. Other sites are ok. I must restart my pc, and disable Ghostery so I can check email.
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This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
The "new since last update" search filter doesn't work.
The "new since last update" search filter located in the Tracker tab under Blocking Options has never worked for me. For reference, I have enabled tracker library auto-updating, blocked new elements by default, and asked to be notified of new elements. So, when Ghostery alerts me that new elements have been added to the tracker library, I will open Ghostery's preferences, scroll down to Blocking Options, and select "new since last update" from the Show menu. Instead of a list of new updates, I get "No results". -
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This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Ghostery makes Firefox consumes many resources!.
Logging and navigating through www.yepp.ro, ghostery 5.0 (even paused or whitelisted) cause firefox 23 to consume a lot of resources till firefox "not responding" message appear, after a few seconds the firefox respond and site will load its contents. -
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This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Ghostery supposedly dead locks Firefox after updating to 5.0.0.
The last few days, my Firefox has been having repeated problems in the form of locking up when opening certain web pages.
After singleing out the bad extension responsible for the dead lock, Ghostery was found to be the one responsible for the lock-up.
I have no idea what exactly in the page load process conflicts with Ghostery, but web browsing becomes an unpredictable adventure with it.
I'd recommend hotfixing this issue ASAP.- view 2 more comments
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thanks.. we are hoping to have a new version of 5.0 out in beta in a few days.. sorry for the inconvenience.
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Same thing happened to me after updating to ver. 5.0.0; Firefox (even when updated to ver. 23.0 (from 22.0)) would just right out crash/freeze upon startup. So I downgraded to 2.9.6 and everything went back to normal. I knew it was Ghostery causing it cause' a popup window briefly showed at the first instance. Ran Firefox on safe mode to disable (I didn't want to remove it in hopes they'll fix it) Ghostery then resorting to DoNotTrackMe. Try downgrading to 2.9.6 release and hopefully works at your end as well.
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I’m
frustrated and sad
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
since ghostery's last update, firefox is much slower and hangs much more often :(.
since ghostery's last update, aurora hangs after startup and during many page loads. Furthermore a large portion of the ghostery button doesn't respond to mouseclicks. -
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This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Ghostery Icon on toolbar disappeared.?.?.
What happened to my "little ghost icon". I'm using Firefox and I had a little ghost icon I could click on to open up ghostery. I visited a website that ghostery would not allow to load, so I clicked on one of the buttons ghostery provided (which allowed me to view the site). Immediately, my Ghostery Icon in the toolbar disappeared and I've not been able to get it back. I've tried everything I can think of...even restarted my computer. I know the program is still working b/c the purple bubble pops up when navigating to new pages...but the icon to control the program is gone. Thank you for any help you can provide! -
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Ghostery 5.0.0 - massive CPU use, very slow browsing.
Massive CPU consumption (and therefore very slow browser) - Ghostery 5.0.0 on Firefox 22, Fedora 17, 64-bit. It was great before 5.0.0, disabling Ghostery returns performance to normal (thanks for making it easy to disable without a restart!). -
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Ghostery 5 and Firefox 23: Some sites hang.
Upgrading to Firefox 23 and Ghostery 5 on a Mac (OS X 10.8) gives problems on many Websites, including signin.ebay.com, www.sbb.ch and many more. The Browser takes hours to load the page and seems to hang. With Ghostery before 5.0 there were no such problems. Switching off Ghostery solves the problem. -
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Ghostery 5.0.1 with Firefox 24.0b2 (Mac OS X 10.7) still hangs on Amazon's sign-in.
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Hum. I activated my other extensions one-by-one, and I never got the crash again. Sorry. Perhaps I wasted your time.
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Glad the issue is gone, but since youre not the only one, there is some kind of conflict somewhere. Keep us posted!
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Ghostery team: Can you please give us an update as the progress in resolving the recent problems of Ghostery 5.0.
I looked on the Ghostery blog (http://purplebox.ghostery.com/), but saw no mention of the recent problems. Could I have missed it?
Ghostery is a great plugin and very helpful in attempting to regain some level of privacy.-
Hi AJ,
Here is our newest beta.. soon to be prod.. version: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fire...
It resolves the CPU/Adblock issues. -
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