All websites in the whitelist of ABP dissaperead suddenly!

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gaddy
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All websites in the whitelist of ABP dissaperead suddenly!

Post by gaddy »

I have a question about add-on AdBlockPlus. I use Mozilla Firefox, the latest version. I have not reinstalled the Windows 7 Ultimate operating system for a long time, but I found that all the sites I added to the whitelist of AdBlockPlus disappeared. Why? The list is empty. Is there a chance to recover the sites that were in the whitelist? Is there a way to do that? Thank you!
I do not know why all the sites in the whitelist have disappeared. It is true that many Mozilla Firefox browser updates have been released but I do not understand why all the sites in the whitelist have been deleted.
If you know how to do this, please let me know. Thank you in advance!
DrCR
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Re: All websites in the whitelist of ABP dissaperead suddenly!

Post by DrCR »

gaddy,

It sounds like your AdBlockPlus has been upgraded (perhaps due to your Firefox being upgraded to the latest version -- the latest version of Firefox does not support the older AdBlockPlus addon versions).

To find your exceptions, open your pattern.ini with a good text editor e.g. NotePad++, and do a search for url=~user, and you should be able to find all the exceptions you made in the older version of the AdBlockPlus software.

Where to find the pattern.ini file? I'm not on a Windows computer right now, but I'm guessing the pattern.ini file is in %localappdata%/Firefox/profile1234.default/adblockplus/ or some such.
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