Firefox users. Print and follow these steps to disable / disable / remove Google +1 buttons from search results with or without AdBlock or AdBlock Plus and without having to create a Google profile.
1) Go to the "Firefox Profiles" folder on your hard drive.
To find your Firefox profiles in Windows XP, Vista, 7, press: [Windows Key] + [R] โ enter (minus quotation marks): "% APPDATA% \ Mozilla \ Firefox \ Profiles" โ click "OK"
or from the taskbar, press: START โ RUN โ Enter (minus quotation marks):
"% APPDATA% \ Mozilla \ Firefox \ Profiles" โ click "OK"
The profiles folder opens. There is likely to be only one folder in the Profiles folder.
2) Open the folder with the extension ".default".
3) Locate the folder named Chrome in the .default folder. If the Chrome folder does not exist, you must create it. (If there is a Chrome folder, go to # 4).
To create a Chrome folder: right-click inside the .default folder โ Select NEW FOLDER โ enter (without quotes): โChromeโ
4) Open the Chrome folder and create a .text file called userContent.css. (The contents of this file tells Firefox not to display +1 buttons on web pages.)
To create a text file called userContent.css: right-click inside the Chrome folder โ Select NEW โ TEXT DOCUMENT โ Enter (without quotes): "userContent.css"
Windows will open the Rename dialog box that says: If you change the file name extension, the file may become unusable. Are you sure you want to change it? Well no
Choose YES
5) Open userContent.css. (It will open in Notepad with a field called: userContent.css - Notepad).
6) Insert the following into your notebook (minus quotation marks): ".esw {display: none! Important;} / * Hides the +1 button completely * /"
Be sure to include the period (.) Before "esw" in the above.
7) Save the Notepad file and close it: select FILE โ SAVE โ FILE โ CLOSE (or select X in the title bar of the folder to close)
8) Close the remaining open folders.
9) If Firefox is not closed, close it. Reopen Firefox Browser. Go to the Google search page and search. The Google +1 buttons will disappear from all future search results.