I'm a VRChat mute who likes to dance, chill, and spend time with friends. A remote user sent me a screenshot that contains a blue ribbon icon with a white star. I don't have that in my Firefox. Attached screenshots Chosen solution Judging from the icon, it's related to bookmarks. Searching bookmarks on the Add-ons site turned up two.

So many ads, so little patience… It’s time to stop the madness.

The average person sees an average of 4,000 ads a day. If you think that’s too many, an ad blocker is your new best friend.

An ad blocker is a piece of software that can be used to block ads, and they work in two ways. The first way is when an ad blocker blocks the signal from an advertiser’s server, so the ad never shows up on your page. Another way ad blockers work is by blocking out sections of a website that could be ads.

These ads might be loud video ads, ads that follow you around the web, trackers, third-party cookies, and more. To use an ad blocker, you can search for ad blocker add-ons that are available in your browser. Firefox, for example, has this list of approved ad blocker add-ons. Click on this list (or ad blockers that are approved for your browser) and see which fits your needs.

Find the right ad blocker for you

There’s AdBlocker Ultimate that gets rid of every single ad, but buyer beware. Some of your favorite newspapers and magazines rely on advertising. Too many people blocking their ads could put them out of business.

Popup ads are the worst. Block them with Popup Blocker and never deal with another annoying popup again.

One of the most popular ad blockers for Chrome, Safari and Firefox is AdBlock. Use it to block ads on Facebook, YouTube and Hulu.

Create a tracker-free zone with Content Blocking

On Firefox, you can use Privacy or Content Blocking settings to get even more control over ad trackers that serve you the ads.

Choose your level of protection

To start, click on the Firefox menu in the top right-hand corner of your screen. It looks like three lines stacked on top of each other. In the drop-down menu, click on Content Blocking. You should see a blue pop-up with different selections.

Go easy with Standard mode

If ads don’t bother you and you don’t mind being followed by trackers and third-party cookies, then the Standard setting should work for you. To get trackers off your tail in Standard mode, use a Private Browsing window.

Get tough with Strict mode

If seeing too many ads ruins your day, then the Strict mode is a better fit. This mode will block known third-party trackers and cookies in all Firefox windows.

Do-it-yourself Custom mode

The Custom setting gives you the ultimate choice. You can decide what you’re blocking, including trackers, cookies and more. If you allow cookies from a website, you’ll automatically be in Custom mode.

Cover your trail, block trackers

Click on the Trackers box and you’ll be able to block trackers in two ways. One way to block trackers is to do it when you’re working in a Private Window. Another way to do it is to block trackers in all windows. Keep in mind that if you choose to always block trackers, some pages might not load correctly.

Take a bite out of cookies

Cookies are sent by websites you visit. They live on your computer and monitor what you’ve been doing on a site. When an airline hikes your rates because you’ve looked at plane tickets once that day, that is the handiwork of a cookie.

In Firefox, you can block all third-party cookies or just those set by trackers. Be aware that blocking all cookies can break some sites.

Send a Do Not Track signal

If you don’t want your online behavior used for ads, you can send websites a polite “thanks but no thanks” letter by checking the Do Not Track option of Firefox. Participation is voluntary, but the websites that participate will stop tracking you immediately.

Speed up thanks to ad blockers

In some cases, an ad blocker can help your browser go faster. When an ad is loading, it can slow down a website. At the same time, it takes longer to find what you’re looking for if you’re too busy closing yet another ad.

If you want to learn more about ad blocking, there are hundreds of ad blocker extensions available for Firefox and other browsers. If want to try out the ad blockers Firefox uses, click here to download a browser that puts privacy first.

Get the latest Firefox browser.

Meet our family of products

BlueGriffon®

The next-gen Web and EPUB Editor based on the rendering engine of Firefox®

Version 3.1 released 2019-oct-14.

OCR!

« My HTML Editor is BlueGriffon, an intuitive, modern and robust application.
I like that what I see is what I get on the Web. »
Jeff Jaffe, CEO of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

« The HTML Editor I'm Using Today? BlueGriffon »
Nick Longo, author of CoffeeCup, the very first HTML Editor

« Dear @BlueGriffonApp , you saved my a$$ once again »
Tristan Nitot, former President of Mozilla Europe

What's inside?

BlueGriffon® has a long list of famous ancestors and proudly inherits from all of them: Netscape®, Mozilla® Composer and Nvu. It is powered by Gecko, the same rendering engine you can find at the heart of Firefox®, and is filled with tons of powerful features:



without
license
Basic
license
EPUB
license
Native standalone Windows, MacOS X and Linux app
Black and Light themes
HTML 4
XHTML 1.0
XHTML 1.1
html 5 (html) including audio, video and forms
html 5 (xml) including audio, video and forms
copy/paste between all flavors of html
OCR
Responsive Design
CSS 3 including 2D and 3D Transformations, Transitions, Shadows, Columns, Font Features and more
CSS Variables
CSS Grids
SVG
Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) 2.0
WAI-ARIA 1.1
DPUB-ARIA 1.0
Opquast® Accessibility First Step
Wysiwyg Authoring
Editable source view
Editable @media print view
Dual View (Source + Wysiwyg in sync)
User Interface in 20 languages
Modifyable menu and button keyboard shortcuts
Style Properties panel
DOM Explorer panel
Script Editor panel
Stylesheets Manager panel
Table of Contents with one-click update
Markdown support
FontSquirrel font manager
Google Fonts font manager
User's Manual
EPUB 2

EPUB 3.0.1

EPUB 3.1

full metadata editing support for EPUB 2, 3 and 3.1

copy/paste between EPUB and all flavors of html

Fullscreen mode
CSS Editor Pro with Media Queries, CSS Variables and even a visual CSS Selector editor!

Table Layout Manager with 44 predefined layouts, all strictly CSS-based
Toolkit Manager for one-click insertion of multiple JavaScript/CSS files
MathML Editor panel (based on ASCIIMathML)
Code Snippets panel
One-Click Templates Manager with ~2,500 free templates

Mobile Viewer
EyeDropper, a colorpicker allowing to select a color from anywhere on screen(s) (Windows and Linux only)
PUTter, to publish a document and the local resources attached to that document through HTTP PUT
Thumbnail manager
Word count warnings
Project Manager

BlueGriffon® is used by millions of users around the world, including Universities, Governments and even the European Parliament. It is officially recommended by the French Government as the Web Authoring Tool for the French Administration in its effort to rely on and promote Free Software (Socle Interministériel de Logiciels Libres).


Some screenshots from the OS X version.


The current Web page was of course created with BlueGriffon...


BlueGriffon editing one of the Media Queries of a responsive Web site


BlueGriffon® editing an EPUB 3.1 version of Melville's Moby Dick


Editing EPUB 3.1 metadata


Editing EPUB 2 metadata

Firefox Blue Twitter


CSS Selector visual builder


Templates manager with ~2,500 free templates


Our CSS Editor Pro with our own CSS Parser and CSS Serializer.

Download BlueGriffon® 3.1

Some features of BlueGriffon® 3.1 are only available if you buy a license.
A License bought for any v2.x works with this v3.1.
A License bought for BlueGriffon EPUB Edition works with this v3.1.


Windows 7, 8, 10
(installer, 64bits)

OS X >= 10.10
(dmg, 64bits)

Ubuntu 16.04
(tar.bz2, 64 bits)
(zip file)
(deb file)
checksums
Starting with v3.1, BlueGriffon is available only for 64bits on all platforms.
English (USA), Čeština, Deutsch, Español (Castellano), Suomi, Français (France), Galego, עברית, Italiano, 日本語, 한국어, Nederlands, Polski, Русский, Slovenščina, Svenska, 中文 (简化字), 中文 (繁體字), Magyar, српски.

We are sorry but we don't support versions of Windows older than Windows 7, versions of OS X older than 10.10 (Yosemite) and the only Linux distribution we officially support is Ubuntu. BlueGriffon® may run on older and other operating systems but we won't accept any bug report on those systems if it doesn't.

Alternatively, you can build BlueGriffon® directly from our github repository but only our official builds can enable the extra features described above with a license key.

Buy it

Warning: EU VAT fraud control enabled; purchases with
inconsistent EU VAT data will be blocked for review and

Firefox Blue


potentially cancelled/reimbursed.

Firefox Blue Screen Of Death


To install the software itself, just download it from the current website.

One license of BlueGriffon® is for a single user on a single computer. You can always de-activate an already activated license to switch user/computer.

If you have a discount code, you'll be able to use it clicking on the 'Get a code?' text in the Shopping Cart panel.

After purchase, you will receive from us a very important message by email so please make sure your antispam allows emails from noreply@sendowl.com before purchase. The message contains a download link to the User's Manual, a Transaction ID and a License Key. You will need both the Transaction ID and the License Key to activate your license of BlueGriffon® through the Preferences panel of the application. Please make sure to backup the message you received from us!

IMPORTANT: If you buy multiple licenses of the same type (Basic or EPUB) from the same shopping cart, you will receive one single license key and one transaction ID; they are valid for all your users. If you absolutely need multiple license keys, please buy them one by one. Thanks.

Purchases are processed by our partner SendOwl and through Stripe or PayPal. PayPal lets you pay using your PayPal account if you have one or all major credit/debit cards if you don't.

Customers in Turkey: PayPal recently ceased operations in your country, please contact us directly if you hit issues purchasing our product.

Volume (>= 10) and OEM discounts available, please contact us.

Firefox Blue

To upgrade a Basic License to a EPUB License, please contact us.


Extras

We have some free dictionaries for BlueGriffon 3.1's spellchecker.

FireFtp is a free add-on for BlueGriffon 3.x.

Warning: FireFtp was updated for 3.0; please download and install again if you already had FireFtp installed.

Installation Instructions:

  1. save the *.xpi file onto your hard disk. If you're using Firefox, it's normal if Firefox can't install it, these add-ons are for BlueGriffon, not for Firefox...
  2. launch BlueGriffon 3.x
  3. open the Add-ons Manager through the Tools > Add-ons menu entry
  4. select the Extensions tab
  5. click on the button at the left (or right if you use an hebraic or arabic version of BlueGriffon) of the Search field at the top the window
  6. select the 'Install Add-on from File...' entry
  7. select the *.xpi file you just downloaded and saved from our web site
  8. a dialog appears, click on the Install button at the end of the three seconds delay
  9. the newly installed add-on now appears in the list of installed add-on...
  10. you must click on the 'Restart Now' link in the window, or quit and relaunch BlueGriffon to activate your new add-on

User's Manual

We sell our User's Manual because selling it allows us to keep improving BlueGriffon, a software that is and will remain Open Source. Please note that buyers of BlueGriffon licenses get the User's Manual for free with their purchase. Please note the manual is not open source or redistributable.

This manual is delivered in PDF format (with hyperlinks), has more than a hundred pages and is in english. Warning, this is the User's Manual for BlueGriffon, not a HTML, CSS or EPUB tutorial. The most complex CSS features of BlueGriffon will be explained in the Manual, but we won't explain there in details how works for instance the font-family CSS property...

Purchasers of this Manual will receive free updates of the Manual for life, all updates, minor or major, following the evolution of the editor BlueGriffon itself.

Contact us

Mozilla Firefox Blue Star

You can contact us by email at info@disruptive-innovations.com or follow us on Twitter.

Support

Please file all bugs, suggestions and requests in our Bugzilla.

Product is 'BlueGriffon', please write in english.

FAQ

  1. Can I pay in US$ or another currency than Euros ?

    PayPal will automatically convert our prices in Euros to a price in the currency your PayPal account is using.

  2. What's SendOwl?

    They're our Shopping Basket processor.

    By the way, SendOwnl never sees your Credit Card information when you purchase from us. We don't see them either, of course. The payment is processed by Stripe or Paypal. We only deal with the shopping basket, through SendOwl.

  3. What are the 'Taxes' I see when I order the product?

    It's VAT and it's only added to purchases made by european individuals and companies. That's absolutely mandatory, since we're also based in Europe. Nothing we can do about it, sorry.

    It does not apply to customers outside of the European Union.

    Since the 1st of January 2015, European VAT is based on the location of the buyer, not the seller's. That's why the VAT rate applied to our products for two customers based in two different european countries can differ. That's a EU Directive and there's nothing we can do about it. That's also why we don't show the price with VAT before you select your country of residence during checkout...

  4. I purchased a license and all I got is a link to the User's Manual, a license key and a transaction ID, no software ?

    That's totally normal. BlueGriffon® is a free download. Install it and enter your license information through the Preferences panel to enable the commercial features.

  5. What happened to the Add-ons? What happens if I still use a version of BlueGriffon with add-ons?

    Our previous line of add-ons was discontinued and add-ons made for versions of BlueGriffon older than 2.0 will NOT work with this version 3.1... It is then HIGHLY recommended to delete your pre-2.0 profile that is in ~/Library/Application Support/BlueGriffon on OSX, AppData/Roaming/Disruptive Innovations SARL on Windows and ~/.disruptive innovations sarl on Linux) OR, even better, create another profile (see the User's Manual).

  6. I lost my license key and/or transaction ID or I can't activate my license, can you help ?

    Yes. Please contact us by email and be ready to answer some questions before we send you back your credentials. If you could provide us with your Transaction ID, that will save some time and emails.

  7. What's the difference between BlueGriffon and BlueGriffon EPUB Edition?

    The Web editor and the EPUB editor used to be two different products. We merged the two products into one starting with version 2.2.

  8. How will you notify us about future versions?

    BlueGriffon® makes a very simple call home when you launch it to check if a new version is available. An alert will show up if that's the case. You can tweak this behavior in the Updates section of the Preferences panel.

  9. What's your Privacy Policy about that call?

    Let's state it very clearly: the only data we store about BlueGriffon® and coming from you (besides your purchase order itself) are of two kinds:

    1. When the application activates or verifies a license, it sends us your license information and an application ID. Nothing more. We don't store these calls at all. Never.
    2. When it checks if a new version is available, it sends us the date of the request, the version of BlueGriffon you're currently using and the appID mentioned just above. We store only the date and the version number. Absolutely nothing more. We do not aggregate these data with our license database. And we do that only for global statistics.

    We do not store and will never store your IP address or even the operating system you're using, BlueGriffon does not transmit and will never transmit your identity, language, information about the documents you're creating/editing, etc..

    Be sure we care as much about privacy as you do.

  10. Who are you ?

    BlueGriffon® is a product of Disruptive Innovations SAS, a French software company founded in October 2003. Based in Saint-Germain en Laye, France, Disruptive Innovations SAS delivered in the past premium products like the popular editor Nvu (www.nvu.com) to Linspire Inc., its indirect successor the BlueGriffon Web editor (http://bluegriffon.org) and BlueGriffon EPUB Edition (http://www.bluegriffon-epubedition.com), or the XML editor Etna to the Connexions Project (www.cnx.rice.edu).

    You can contact us at european business hours by email at info@disruptive-innovations.com.