Firefox

Release notes for new versions of Ghostery for Firefox

New! Ghostery v2.9.5 for Firefox

New! Ghostery v2.9.5 for Firefox

  Greetings Firefox Users! We are happy to announce an update for the Firefox browser. AND… over 1400 trackers in our blocking library! A big Thanks to all of our users who helped us identify and fix a few production issues. As well as some house-keeping items. Here are the release notes for 2.9.5:...

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New! Ghostery v2.9.4 for Firefox

New! Ghostery v2.9.4 for Firefox

Greetings to our Ghostery for Firefox Users! In our ongoing effort to make Ghostery more secure we now transfer Ghostrank data via HTTPS. We also fixed a few minor things. See the full version update below. - Corrected query string removal for tracker detection within content policy. This should fix video issue on Bloomberg...

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Quick Update: Ghostery for Firefox 2.9.3

Quick Update: Ghostery for Firefox 2.9.3

Hey Firefox Ghosterians. Just a quick update: Certain links were breaking – most of them from emails – if you had the last version of Ghostery installed. This release fixes that. You can download it here. Have a great day!

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New and Fancy! Ghostery for Firefox V.2.9

New and Fancy! Ghostery for Firefox V.2.9

New patch: There was an issue reported that certain trackers were not being blocked when checked off. This included the Google AJAX Search API Widget. That wasn’t cool, so we fixed it. Thanks to everyone that let us know about it so quickly! You can read the full release notes here. Hello all Ghostery...

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New! Ghostery for Firefox v. 2.8.4

New! Ghostery for Firefox v. 2.8.4

Greetings all in Ghostery land… A quick update here. Some of our Ghostery for Firefox users noticed some issues with the options menu when downloading the nightly builds. We fixed that. Thanks to our dedicated users for providing great feedback! You can download 2.8.4 here. As always…If you love Ghostery and want to help...

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Ghostery for Firefox Update – Prettier Panels and More!

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Ghostery for Firefox v2.8.2 is out! The first thing you’ll notice is your newer, prettier options panel: Notice how nothing’s crossed out, and there’s no checkmarks to start blocking trackers. This is because I’ve whitelisted onthemedia.org, the site I’m currently on. Once you click “Edit Blocking Options,” however… …and the boxes appear. In this...

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Brewing up some updates

Brewing up some updates

Hey Ghost people. We’ve been working hard all summer, updating all of the Ghosteries. This is your official heads-up that it’s going to start raining releases very soon. Like, tomorrow soon (Ghostery for Chrome’s having an update). Look for something on every platform we currently support: Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari, IE AND iOS. We’ll...

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We need your help: Ghostery for Firefox 2.8.1 beta (UPDATED)

We need your help: Ghostery for Firefox 2.8.1 beta (UPDATED)

UPDATE: Thanks to feedback, we discovered some troubles with the first beta version. The new version is available in the link below, which should be more stable. Keep that feedback coming! The time has come again, Ghostery for Firefox users, when you must rally together and help us find bugs in our software. Well…...

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Minor Update: Ghostery for Firefox v2.8.0.2

Minor Update: Ghostery for Firefox v2.8.0.2

Hey everyone, we made an update to Ghostery 2.8: It looked like Ghosty was acting a little bit too overzealous sometimes when it came to certain content and would block extra stuff in iFrames. That doesn’t happen anymore. Also, some users were having issues with frequent unresponsive scripts if they left Firefox unused for...

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Introducing Click-to-Play: Ghostery for Firefox v2.8 is Out

Introducing Click-to-Play: Ghostery for Firefox v2.8 is Out

We’re really excited for this version of Ghostery for Firefox. Why? Because for one of our biggest questions from Ghostery users has always been, “Why can’t I see the comments/videos/social buttons on www.insertwebsitehere.com?” This release answers that question with a simple feature: Click-to-play content replacement. Now, if you find you are missing elements on...

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