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Fixed. Required reinstall of Python2.5-runtime.

Adblock-plus (it seems to work, but i can't configure it)
Flashblock (doesn't work)

Yes, messing around with the repositories a bunch mostly did the trick for me too. Thanks for all the help people.

The earlier tip about gpodder did the trick too, but not until I fought battles with "Incompatibe Package" errors I was getting in the application manager.

In some instances I had to browse some of the repository sites to figure out its structure and adjust the Application Manager's Catalog entries accordingly.

So now I have a lot of places where I have both entries for Chinook and Diablo for the same repository. This can't be good, but it seems to be what is needed at this time.

Being a Debian and Ubuntu user on my PC's, I feel I kind of know how apt-get and repositories, as well as 'upgrades' are supose to work. The state of affairs in this Maemo world sure seems to be a mess. Fortunately since this is mostly an open source and community supported project, I am very optimistic that things will get better. So to others getting discouraged by all these upgrade issue, hang in there, we'll get through this andthings will be better than ever.

I've only owned my IT (N810) for about a month now and I'm totally adicted to it! Some day I'll have to post list of all the things I've got my IT to do for all those potential newbies who wonder what these things can be used for.

Anyway back on the thead, Canola2 still doesn't work, but that's okay for now.
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Try rebooting a couple of times and browse a little. The red ABP icon didn't show up for me immediately either.

Also noticed there was no /home/user/.mozilla/microb/adblockplus/ directory so I created this myself and copied my old patterns.ini into this. (chown user:users for directory and contents, chmod 755 directory)

Flashblock works fine. In fact, I discovered Flashblock when using Diablo, and I've never run it with other versions of OS2008.

But let me add this: The fact that there are many, many users who are convinced that this or that doesn't work with Diablo and have been unable to find solutions must mean something. I think it means that support for tablets isn't as effective as it needs to be. Maybe exhorting users to SEARCH! isn't the ultimate solution after all, because many users are giving up.

Flashblock works on my internal boot, but not my boot from sd. it installs, but below the blocked flash object is another flash object, so it totally defeats the purpose. this happened to me in chinook as well. my internal flash os is a fairly clean flash, so it must be something i installed in my sd boot.

Flashblock has never worked for me, I think it's a dodgy port :/

I like to use a flashblock greasemonkey script instead.

Thanks for your suggestion, I followed the advice, but it doesn't work.

Regarding restarting multiple times: I believe this is due to people starting the browser too fast again. Perhaps one needs to wait till browser and browserd are both really closed down. So thats what I do for now, although I still restarted multiple times tho.

I had no /home/user/.mozilla/microb/adblockplus/ either, and don't have old patterns.ini. I made both, now my patterns.ini is:
# Adblock Plus preferences

[User patterns]

[Subscription]
url=~il~

[Subscription]
url=~wl~

[Subscription]
url=~fl~

[Subscription]
url=~eh~

Gave them permissions 755 & user.users as you suggested.

Whenever I try to install or remove Adblock from the components list the whole browser crashes. This even happens on a fresh ~/.mozilla

$ pwd && echo NAME && grep em:version `ls -H */install.rdf` && echo VERSION && grep em:name `ls -H */install.rdf`
/home/user/.mozilla/microb/extensions
NAME
{3d7eb24f-2740-49df-8937-200b1cc08f8a}/install.rdf: <em:version>1.5.6a based</em:version>
{c4dc572a-3295-40eb-b30f-b54aa4cdc4b7}/install.rdf: <em:version>0.7.18</em:version>
components-installer@extensions.mozilla.org/install.rdf: <em:version>1.9a6pre</em:version>
{d10d0bf8-f5b5-c8b4-a8b2-2b9879e08c5d}/install.rdf: <em:version>0.7.5.3 based</em:version>
{e4a8a97b-f2ed-450b-b12d-ee082ba24781}/install.rdf: <em:version>0.7.20070607.0 based</em:version>
en-GB@dictionaries.addons.mozilla.org/install.rdf: <em:version>1.19</em:version>
nl-NL@dictionaries.addons.mozilla.org/install.rdf: <em:version>2.0.0</em:version>
nl_NL@opentaal.org/install.rdf: <em:version>1.00G</em:version>
VERSION
{3d7eb24f-2740-49df-8937-200b1cc08f8a}/install.rdf: <em:name>Flashblock port for MicroB</em:name>
{c4dc572a-3295-40eb-b30f-b54aa4cdc4b7}/install.rdf: <em:name>wmlbrowser</em:name>
components-installer@extensions.mozilla.org/install.rdf: <em:name>components-installer</em:name>
{d10d0bf8-f5b5-c8b4-a8b2-2b9879e08c5d}/install.rdf: <em:name>Adblock Plus port for MicroB</em:name>
{e4a8a97b-f2ed-450b-b12d-ee082ba24781}/install.rdf: <em:name>Greasemonkey port for MicroB</em:name>
en-GB@dictionaries.addons.mozilla.org/install.rdf: <em:name>British English Dictionary</em:name>
nl-NL@dictionaries.addons.mozilla.org/install.rdf: <em:name>Woordenboek Nederlands</em:name>
nl_NL@opentaal.org/install.rdf: <em:name>OpenTaal woordenlijst</em:name>

Even with all the dictionaries, greasemonkey removed & purged, and adblockplus removed and installed, it still simply doesn't work.

BTW, using 'check updates' finds a new adblockplus version using this one, or not, doesn't make any difference.

Edit: for some reason it works now, no idea why...

Flashblock stopped working on my internal flash boot all the sudden...
But greasemonkey works great and I downloaded a script. Everything working perfectly! Thanks Qwerty12.

I installed Flashblock yesterday and I've had the same problem for some Flash objects. And I just have a standard internal boot.

EDIT: this problem has also been seen by tso.

Now I've seen that after restarting the browser, all components I installed have disappeared! EDIT: after renaming the .mozilla directory (to make sure to start from something clean) and rebooting my N810, the components reappeared.