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Google Adsense Does Not Work with Mozilla Firefox Browser
Many webloggers have, or are considering adding Google Adsense ads to their blogs. You will see such ads in my sidebar. I installed Adsense as an experiment to see how much, if any revenue it will generate. Since my site has relatively low visitor numbers, I’m not expecting huge returns. But I wanted to try it and see what happens.
My preference is for my site to remain ad free. But I spend a considerable amount of time blogging and have no other source of income (I’m a stay at home dad most of the time). So exploring the potential for earned revenue from my blog seemed appropriate. Also, these ads do not appear overly intrusive. They’re relatively benign compared to some ads I’ve seen on other websites.
But for anyone using the Mozilla Firefox browser…BEWARE! Adsense is tremendously balky with Mozilla. The configuration process is a nightmare. You are constantly bounced back to the login page each time you attempt to configure your Adsense settings. I strongly recommend you use Netscape or Internet Explorer when configuring Adsense. Once I tried configuring within IE all my troubles vanished.
Adsense explains that Mozilla is a “pre-release product” and they don’t support such browsers as a policy. I’d remind Adsense that hundreds of thousands of people use Mozilla and by foreclosing Adsense to them, Google is only hurting it’s own bottom line. Also, the Adsense FAQs say nothing about not supporting Mozilla. I told their suppport staff that they should state this clearly so that people like me can avoid the hours of frustration I experienced in attempting to configure Adsense.
Steve said:
Hmmmm, isn’t the Mozilla 1.x train a released ‘product’?
Did you try this just with Firefox (which I use) or also with Mozilla 1.7 or whatever they are up to now? Firefox 0.8 is pretty much the same code as, I think, Mozilla 1.5 so they should work the same.
I’m suspecting that Adsense uses non-standard (read proprietary to IE) code. Perhaps those google geniuses are not so bright afterall.
Oh well, I’m thinking of adding adsense to my blog so I’ll remember to crank up IE for the task.
Thanks for the tip.
Modulator said:
Google Codes for Microsoft
It appears that the bright folks at Google may be a bit challenged when it comes to writing standards based interfaces….
K. Satyanarayan said:
I had been trying to set up Adsense on Firebird and was going nowhere. I googled to look for help and came across your post which was a godsend!
I switched to IE and was able to set up Adsense in a few minutes.
Thanks!
Josh said:
I’m using Firefox, and it worked just fine for me.
Richard Silverstein said:
The Mozilla forum suggests wiping out the cookie cache (who wants to do that). This solution worked for at least one Mozilla user. I’d rather get it running on IE & then switch back to Mozilla, rather than clear out my entire cookie inventory & have to reproduce it manually.
Awele said:
I tried viewing my site on Mozilla browser only to find out my adsense does not appear. methink Mozilla does not support the adsense codes.
Richard Silverstein said:
Awele: No, Adsense works with Firefox so I don’t see why it wouldn’t work w. Mozilla. You can see my adsense ads on this pg. & I view them with Firefox.
If you’re still having problems you should post to the Mozilla forum about it & I’m sure someone will try to help you.