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I installed FireFox 52.9 on an old (14 years) XP machine I have and while it worked OK, I went looking to put on AdBlockPlus on it AFTERWARDS. 

From what I can view, AdBlockPlus is version 3.7 and while it blocks ads, it has really slowed down FireFox 52.9 considerably and in some cases have made some sites now NOT viewable at all.   As an example, I can view Yahoo MAIL but when I sign out and the news articles come into play, if I click on any, majority wont load and I get Firefox (not Responding), a big white box overlay over everything and only recourse is to X out of Firefox session killing everything so yahoo must sense Adblock and kill access to everything it seems.
 
I do know Yahoo has a LOT of ads but it worked prior to the install of AdBlockPlus
 with FF 52.9

I ran a check for virus and also Malwarebytes and everything came back clean.

I would like to REMOVE AdBlockPlus altogether but I dont see it as a program in Control Panel Add or Remove Programs. 

I know it downloaded to somewhere but I dont know Where it is to be able to remove it.

Is there a secret place to look to get it off FireFox completely?

Thanks in Advance.

uBlockOrigin is much better than AdBlockPlus. I've replaced ABP with uBO several years ago.

I don't think you can get legacy addons but I have them archived somewhere. I'll have to look around and see what USB stick I have it on. (I have 8 USB cases and each case holds 6 USB sticks so it sometimes takes me awhile to find what I need.)

I did the Tools> Add-ons> Extensions and I get a box that says
I dont have any add-ons of this type installed. 
(I see no where to select any sort of type).
Yet the ABP stopsign is in the upper right hand corner.
I did add Yahoo to the whitelist of addresses (if that is the best I can do for now).

I guess I would like to try UBlock Origin but I would like to figure out how to
get rid of AdBlockPlus first. 
I would imagine it would not be good to run 2 in parallel.

If I were to UNinstall FF 52.9 and RE-install it, do you think that would rid me of AdBlockPlus.  If an uninstall, would trying mozilla-firefox-45-0-1 that I got from OldVersion.com be maybe a better fit instead of 52.9 ?

I recall having AdBlockPlus on a different XP machine in the past (XP#5) and dont
recall having any issues.  I was probably running FF 43 at that time (as that is the last one I had saved prior to downloading 52.9 (and now 45.0 from Oldversion).

When I say a different machine, this one IS XP# FOUR
and the 20 year old one from work (in the prior thread) was XP# One.  (2 and 3
and 5 are dead gone ~ Hard Drive fried). 

What can I say, I like XP because it works so well with my old equipment
and software I bought to record my LP records to CD discs in Wav and MP3. 
I buy these machines used with XP if I can acquire any local and inexpensive enough.

So Hold off on UBO upload until I can see if I can rid myself of AdBlock Plus first,
but thanks for the offer.

You could try this:  How to Remove Extensions Manually in Firefox

What happens when you RIGHT-click on the ABP Stop-sign button in the upper-right of the toolbar?  --- You should see a drop-down menu, which includes choices to Manage Extension, REMOVE Extension, and Remove from Toolbar.

If you see this, I would first try REMOVE Extension.  And if that doesn't work, try Remove from Toolbar.

Actually I RE-booted the system and the AdBlock stop sign has RE-appeared so it must be removed only for the session.   Its BACK now.

Well, as you say, No Joy on both choices.

Basically both of your suggestions get me into safe mode and the AdBlock stop sign is NOT present under both of your choices and says All Add-ons have been disabled in Safe Mode.

(But there really are none to delete and nothing ever showed up in the first place.)

Now it seems that when I sign in here, I get a message that this page is NOT SECURE on the initial sign in screen that I have a favorite of (no https) but once I sign in, https is present.
That had not happened previously. 
I think I will just UN-install Firefox and put a different version on to see it that fixes it.
While I liked Firefox in the past, it has become more of a liability to me on my 2 (old) machines lately.   I will do that later tonight and report back on results.
Thanks all for the input.

I never saw ANY extensions when I clicked on the Jigsaw Puzzle piece, (SAFE MODE or NOT).

Oh and I fixed the not secure by updating my bookmark here to have it do a https.  I must have had more than one old bookmark in different folders that did not have the https.

I UN-installed FF 52 and Installed FF 45.

It tossed me up a screen that said AdBlockPlus is available and would I like to add it.
Hell NO... I declined.  Screen print attached.

So appears that it is available somewhere but not installed now and not showing,
and this thread can be officially closed as solved (I guess) but it sure was buried in
deeper than an Alabama tick in a hound dog.

Thanks ALL for the help.