Adblock Plus and (a little) more

Element Hiding Helper: Getting closer · 2007-01-09 00:11 by Wladimir Palant

A new development build of the Element Hiding Helper extension (0.9+.2007010823) has been uploaded.

Changes

Advanced filter composition mode mostly implemented (attributes of parent/sibling nodes can be used, entering custom CSS selector parts is possible)

What needs to be done

A way to specify which part of the attribute should be used

Known issues

~~Shortcut key doesn’t work in SeaMonkey~~
~~It is possible to invoke the “wider” function on the “html” node~~
~~If a command fails, it triggers find-as-you-type (if enabled)~~
~~Context menu items are not hidden properly in SeaMonkey~~
~~Errors when starting EHH during page load~~
~~Keyboard shortcuts starts EHH even on documents it doesn’t support~~
Advanced mode: Rows of nodes used in the expression are highlighted with a small but visible delay
Splitter is broken when switching from basic to advanced view the first time
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)
Doesn’t work in Thunderbird/Mozilla Mail yet

The biggest Plus around · 2007-01-08 11:03 by Wladimir Palant

There are always interesting things to find in the server logs. This time I noticed that a few people coming to adblockplus.org were searching for “plus.de”. I tried it and – wow, Adblock Plus is the second search result after the actual plus.de. And if you only search for plus Adblock Plus comes up on the places 22 (AMO) and 36 (adblockplus.org), for such a generic term this isn’t bad either.

Element Hiding Helper: The first try · 2007-01-08 01:35 by Wladimir Palant

The first development build of the Element Hiding Helper extension (0.9+.2007010800) has been uploaded. This extension is meant to make creating element hiding rules easier, the code to select the element has been adopted from the Aardvark extension. Adblock Plus 0.7.2.3 or higher is required, browser requirements are the same as for Adblock Plus. This extension is still in the early development stages and some features of the final version are missing.

Adblock Plus 0.7.2.4 released · 2007-01-05 18:42 by Wladimir Palant

Major changes

Fixed context menu when “Check banner links” option is switched on
Tabs on Flash and Java should no longer break page layout
Closed a way for web sites to detect Adblock Plus by abusing bug 292789 in Gecko
Made handling of different object types more consistent

Known issues

Adblock Plus triggers a bug in Firefox 2.0 causing some extensions (e.g. Google Notebook) and websites to break. And upgrade to Firefox 2.0.0.1 will fix this.

Firefox security: the real picture · 2007-01-05 12:37 by Wladimir Palant

I have seen many people complaining about how Firefox is no more secure than Internet Explorer. Usually this impression comes up when people read the long lists of security bugs fixed with every maintenance release. Since I have reported a few security bugs myself and could observe how Mozilla deals with those, I knew well that Firefox is still incomparably more secure than Internet Explorer — and now there is proof. Internet Explorer Unsafe for 284 Days in 2006 has the data.

Improved memory usage · 2007-01-04 14:53 by Wladimir Palant

This is a release candidate for Adblock Plus 0.7.2.4.

Changes

Releasing memory sooner on dynamic pages where nodes are removed from the document (bug 16125)

"Check banner links" fixed · 2007-01-04 11:59 by Wladimir Palant

Changes

Fixed: context menu items do not appear when “Check banner links” option is switched on

Closing a way for web pages to detect Adblock Plus · 2006-12-22 16:13 by Wladimir Palant

Now preventing web pages from probing for Adblock Plus by abusing bug 292789 (bug 16027)
Added public nsIAdblockPlus.allowOnce() method to be used by other extensions

Fixed object tabs increasing page width · 2006-12-22 11:00 by Wladimir Palant

Known issues

~~Object tabs increase the width of some pages causing horizontal scrolling~~

Object tabs not breaking page layout any more · 2006-12-22 04:18 by Wladimir Palant

Changes

Fixed: object tabs break page layout in some cases (bug 12911)
Fixed: object tab size does not adapt to text size (e.g. when zooming)
Made sure that dynamic properties of object tabs cannot be overridden by web page’s styles
SeaMonkey 1.1: middle-clicking an item in the sidebar wouldn’t open it in a new tab
SeaMonkey 1.1: default action (going to the address from the clipboard) shouldn’t be invoked when middle-clicking in the sidebar
K-Meleon: Fixed bug that was severely breaking functionality
K-Meleon: Fixed background image attachment in toolbar