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How can I block unrequested Celebrity News - it's irritating!

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jubileefelicity
jubileefelicity
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I'm already fed up with getting Celebrity News popping up unrequested and slowing my old laptop. I'm chronically ill and can only use my laptop for 15mins at a time and so this irritation is a double whammy. Please help me get rid of this and any future unrequested 'new features'. Thanks.

I'm already fed up with getting Celebrity News popping up unrequested and slowing my old laptop. I'm chronically ill and can only use my laptop for 15mins at a time and so this irritation is a double whammy. Please help me get rid of this and any future unrequested 'new features'. Thanks.

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Gingerbread Man
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That's not a Firefox feature. It sounds like you may have a malware infestation. See the following article.

FredMcD
FredMcD
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Go to the Mozilla Add-ons Web Page (There’s a lot of good stuff here) and check out

BlockSite is an extension, which automagically blocks websites of your choice. Additionally, this extension will disable all hyperlinks to these websites, by just displaying the link text without the clicking functionality.