CrunchBang 11 Waldorf Review

Instead get the Element Hiding Helper add-on for AdBlock you can then select and disable the overlay element that prevents this site from displaying correctly.

I'm not so crazy about Debian's Iceweasel installing and activating AdBlocker by default.

It's not easy to turn off. I think I had to remove a package to disable it.

My problem is that my work involves web advertising, and if I can't see the ads, I can't do my job.

Its the first thing i install, although I dont use the one supplied with my distro, not sure why you have trouble disabling its a 2 click operation for me.

Right click on the ABP icon then select whichever disable option you want, their are 3, which includes disable everywhere. A lot of sites that wont let you view their site due to adblocker use an overlay element to hide the sites contents which is where Element Hider comes in.

For me these are essential web browsing tools.

This is in Debian Wheezy. I had trouble turning it off. I'm sure when you install it as a pure Firefox extension, it behaves better. But as a Debian package, it's not so easy to deal with.

Steven, indeed, Debian packages ABP for Iceweasel, and then that package gets selected and installed with Iceweasel.

It's a 'recommends' rather than a 'depends', and I think its done that way because the Firefox "version" that is Iceweasel is far enough behind the official version that getting ABP for it would be difficult from the official repositories.

I'm surprised that it wasn't easy to disable (if not remove). Oh well, I'm a browser "user", not a programmer. I still use vi to edit what little HTML I have.

It's an odd choice -- install and ad blocker and have it turned on by default with no notice.

It's another case where an "opt-in" should be used instead of "opt-out."

Actually, the "opt-in" in this case would be for the ads. It's "opt-out" by default.

The author of this piece writes:

Quoting:What’s New in CrunchBang 11

I was not able to find a list of changes or new features on the CrunchBang site. I encourage the CrunchBang developers to create a “What’s New” page for future releases. It makes the job of reviewers much easier. See how Linux Mint does it for their distro releases.

Much of the Debian GNU/Linux flagship distro's major "changes or new features" will probably become incorporated into Debian's testing version.

CrunchBang's naming-convention somewhat mirrors that of Debian GNU/Linux itself. Therefore, "Statler" was named after Debian's former stable "squeeze" and "Waldorf" is named after Debian's current stable and former testing version "wheezy". As written on the Debian testing webpage itself:

Quoting:Debian “jessie” Release Information

The code name for the next major Debian release after wheezy is "jessie".

This release started as a copy of wheezy, and is currently in a state called "testing". That means that things should not break as badly as in unstable or experimental distributions, because packages are allowed to enter this distribution only after a certain period of time has passed, and when they don't have any release-critical bugs filed against them.

The CrunchBang developers may wish to consider incorporating the most pertinent details of their own form of "jessie" into their “What’s New” page(s).

Quoting:The CrunchBang developers might wish to incorporate the name of their form of "jessie" as well

He did already some time ago: "Janice"