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Newspaper ads cover up the text of the article in Firefox but Chrome must be used to veiw the entire articles.

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Stetsons

I'm running Windows 7 on a new Dell Inspiron tower. When I try to read news articles using firefox which have advertising near the bottom, the ads cover up and obscure the news article text. I have to use Google Chrome to view the newspapers because this problem does not exist in Chrome.

I'm running Windows 7 on a new Dell Inspiron tower. When I try to read news articles using firefox which have advertising near the bottom, the ads cover up and obscure the news article text. I have to use Google Chrome to view the newspapers because this problem does not exist in Chrome.

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Use this extension to block ads -> Adblock Plus 2.0.3

Check and tell if its working.

Modified by Hasan

Reset the page zoom on pages that cause problems.

  • View > Zoom > Reset (Ctrl+0 (zero); Cmd+0 on Mac)

Clear the cache and the cookies from sites that cause problems.

"Clear the Cache":

  • Tools > Options > Advanced > Network > Offline Storage (Cache): "Clear Now"

"Remove Cookies" from sites causing problems:

  • Tools > Options > Privacy > Cookies: "Show Cookies"

Do a malware check with some malware scanning programs on the Windows computer.
You need to scan with all programs because each program detects different malware.
Make sure that you update each program to get the latest version of their databases before doing a scan.

You can also do a check for a rootkit infection with TDSSKiller.

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The problem may be in the website itself so you could try notifying the webmaster about it