The "Fanboy Annoyances" filter list is nice because it does block some unwanted pop-ups, but it also blocks all of the sharing buttons -- just about any links, buttons, or images related to social media sites seem to be targeted, as well as email and print buttons. Once I deleted the "Fanboy Annoyances" list, I was able to use Adblock Plus and still see all of the sharing options on WordPress blogs and elsewhere, as well as being able to see them on my WP admin area's Sharing page.

I think the main reason I hadn't run into this before is that I'm on a new computer and when I added Adblock Plus to Firefox, I didn't select filters this time, but just went with the defaults.

I hope this is helpful to someone!

Thanks for reporting those!

Would you mind reporting the false positive to Adblock? It always seems to get done quicker when reported by the users.

I thought I'd post the "solution" just in case someone in the future does a search on the problem & this might help them.

It is sort of annoying to know that Adblock is blocking the sharing buttons. I know that it has not always done this, since I've used Firefox for my WP blogging since I began, and I have always had Adblock Plus installed and functional. Must be a change in the blocking software, I imagine.

Here are screenshots of what I see in the settings>sharing page in Firefox & in Chrome. Some of the sharing buttons are missing entirely in Firefox and none of them show the official icon, although that's what I've chosen, and when I view my blog on Firefox, I don't see any of the sharing buttons at the bottom of posts, whether I'm logged in or not.

http://mmadfan.com/?attachment_id=6133 (Chrome Screenshot)
http://mmadfan.com/?attachment_id=6134 (Firefox Screenshot)

I've cleared my cache, and then did a force refresh, and that didn't help, either.

One thing I haven't tried is rebooting the computer, so I'll do that, and if it's fixed, I'll mark this as "resolved"; if not, I'll hope for a staff suggestion/fix.

Thanks again!

I can't figure it out. I even logged out (in Firefox) and looked at the posts, and the buttons aren't appearing, then logged back in, and my "Settings>sharing" page looks strange. It's been a while since I visited the sharing page, but I seem to recall that the little preview down at the bottom of the page that shows what buttons will appear actually shows the buttons, not just text (and I've chosen to have buttons, not just text, to appear on the blog).

Thanks for the link, as well, but that's not the problem. The FB like button that comes standard as an option in "sharing" has disappeared for me -- I can't even drag it away if I changed my mind about using it. Yet I know that it's on the posts, since when I'm on Opera, I can see a facebook like button.

Also, oddly, the link that I created myself for newsvine is still there on the settings>sharing page -- although I don't see its icon unless I hop onto Opera to view the page.

I greatly prefer using Firefox for this blog, since I use Opera for administering another blog under a different email addy, and I am able to stay signed in on both browsers with two different accounts for a number of different sites.

I did try a forced refresh, but that didn't fix it. I haven't done much with my blog recently because of various RL issues, so I'm a bit rusty with the possible fixes.

Thanks!

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I have checked the blog using Opera, not logged in, and I DO see the sharing buttons then. Since I always used to be able to see the sharing buttons when logged in, and since the FB sharing button is missing on my settings page, can I presume that this is a Firefox-specific issue? Anyone have any recommendations of what might fix this, if there's something I can do on my end?

I've checked the sharing settings in the "settings" area, but everything is the way it's always been. I looked at a post in edit mode, and the boxes are both ticked for showing the WP like and the sharing buttons, yet they aren't appearing.

I'm using Firefox 18.0.2.