I like the look of this browser, but I'm not accustomed to seeing all of the advertisements that adblock has let me forget about. Are there any plans to develop an adblock-like tool to prevent loading flash and image files from websites? I found the privacy section for denying images from a site, but it doesn't seem to be specific enough-- I might want to block the images at http://www.somewebsite.com/ads/* but see others from the same host.

You can do that from userContent.css (Tools>Advanced Preferences>UserContent):
Add
img[src*="somewebsite.com/ads/"] {display:none !important}
or simply
img[src*="/ads/"] {display:none !important}
then restart K-Meleon.

Does it support blocking via regular expressions?

Nope, there's nothing in K-Meleon that really compares to Adblock. And by the way, that userContent.css trick seems to still cause the image to be downloaded (only not showed).

You could use an external application like privoxy which allows the use of regexps.

If im not mistaken those CSS dont block the ads from downloading in the first place while with ad block the script/ads etc never are downloaded.

I'm frankly more concerned about flash files (.swf) than images-- are there any programs that can prevent those from loading? I use a firewall (agnitum outpost) that lets me block images, but not (afaik) other kinds of ads.

http://kmeleonbrowser.org/forum/read.php?f=2&i=3810&t=3809

please,

create an tool for add block ads in kmeleon...import of adsblock settings...

Thanks

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http://nauscopio.coolfreepages.com/baul/solera/AdBlock_Solera_21022005.zip

g.ee, there's an easy way to block flash in k-meleon, just go privacy->block flash. That will prevent flash items from loading. (You'll have to turn it back on if you go to a site that requires flash to work, but it's an easy thing to toggle on/off.)

g.e.e.,

In addition to what they've mentioned here, to stop flash ads from loading on the fly, I use the privacy toolbar <<KillFlash>> button to individually kill of annoying flash ads as they bother me when I'm surfing.

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You can achieve results similar to those of adblock by using a PAC file. The PAC file has to be edited manually to add or remove filters, but it can block just a directory or even just a single image in addition to blocking entire sites, and (unlike the usercontent method) it prevents the images from being downloaded. Here's how to get PAC files to work in KM:


==FOR THOSE OF YOU NOT USING THE HAO CCF 0.019a2 (or later) VERSION==
Download this file:
http://allspark.net/cypherswipe/nsProxyAutoConfig.js
Close k-meleon. Place the file in the components folder in your k-meleon folder (something like c:/program files/k-meleon/components/), click "yes" when it asks if you want to overwrite the existing file. Delete the compreg.dat file located in the same folder. (It'll be rebuilt the next time to load k-meleon.)

Fire up k-meleon and click
edit->prefs->proxy->automatic proxy config URL
and put file://C:/adfilter2.pac (or where ever you saved the .pac file to) as the URL.To test it, go to http://googlesyndication.com, you should have just a blank page. If you get a google site, close k-meleon and reopen it.
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Once you have done that, or if you are using the above mentioned version:

Download this file:
http://allspark.net/cypherswipe/adfilter2.pac.txt
Remove the .txt extension.

To add or remove something from the filter list, just open the pac file in notepad or any other text editor. You will see a bunch of lines like this:
shExpMatch(url, "*clickthru*") ||
To remove something, simply find the line that mentions it and delete it. To add something, just add a new line and replace *clickthru* with whatever you want to block. The *'s are wildcards.
For example,
shExpMatch(url, "*stupid-image.jpg") ||
would block the file called "stupid-image.jpg". You can block single images, whole directories, or even whole sites using this method.

If you need to (or just desire to) connect through a proxy, go to the end of the file and look for the line
return "DIRECT";
Replace "DIRECT" with "PROXY [address]:[port]". For example: "PROXY 216.532.25.23:82"

]http://kmeleonbrowser.org/forum/read.php?f=1&i=21571&t=21462

why not just alter adblock itself? source is available, so just make it work with k-meleon. it's the same plug-in api.