Adblock Plus and (a little) more
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
Adblock Plus on the crossroads · 2006-12-21 15:09 by Wladimir Palant
Now that Adblock Plus has reached a certain level of maturity and made it to rank 1 by downloads on AMO, there is a question about how it should be developed further. Incremental improvements will continue of course, there are still nice things to be added (the ability to unblock immediately above all). But Adblock Plus has reached a point where it already has most of the features that the general public needs. Most new features will become available as separate extensions.
Firefox 2.0.0.1 and impact on addon downloads · 2006-12-21 01:30 by Wladimir Palant
I am looking at the development of addon downloads on Addons.Mozilla.Org for the last few days and I really have trouble understanding it:
Looking for a job again · 2006-12-20 13:15 by Wladimir Palant
I should be finished with my PhD in May. What should I do once I am done? This question is bugging me right now. These three years have made it very clear that I don’t want to continue an academic career. I want to produce good software that will be used by real people, and sadly this is simply unrealistic being at a university.
Firefox 2.0.0.1 is out - yay! · 2006-12-20 11:17 by Wladimir Palant
Firefox 2.0.0.1 has just been released. Please upgrade as soon as possible, it fixes a bad JavaScript bug in Firefox 2.0 that caused all sorts of strange effects especially when Adblock Plus was installed (bug 355161). In particular this fixes the incompatibility between Adblock Plus and the Google Notebook extension and probably a number of other issues that couldn’t be tracked down properly.
Spell checker rants · 2006-12-11 14:21 by Wladimir Palant
The spell checker in Firefox 2 is certainly a great feature. I have already seen lots of people write this and I agree. And yet, it has some certain deficiencies that make me use it far less than it could be. The reason is: it seems to assume that you always write your texts in the same language. Yet I am frequently switching between languages, I write texts in English, German and Russian all the time. And going to the context menu, digging into the languages menu and choosing the right language is just annoying, especially for a short text. There is also another issue: switching languages takes a while, and for a huge dictionary like the German (10 MB) it becomes a major annoyance.
Adblock Plus 0.7.2.3 released · 2006-12-11 04:07 by Wladimir Palant
Major changes
- Added Persian translation
- Fixed major security issue in SeaMonkey
- Made sure “Show tabs on Flash and Java” works without JavaScript again
- “Disable Adblock Plus on …” options are no longer disabled when Preferences dialog is open
Known issues
- Adblock Plus triggers a bug in Firefox 2.0 causing some extensions (e.g. Google Notebook) and websites to break. Firefox 2.0.0.1 will fix this.
Some progress on the object tabs again · 2006-12-08 14:52 by Wladimir Palant
Changes
- Added Persian translation
- Made it harder for web sites to tamper with object tabs
- Whitelisting options (“Disable Adblock Plus on …”) no longer disabled when Preferences dialog is open
- Added methods addPatterns() and removePatterns() to the public nsIAdblockPlus interface (to be used from other extensions)
Improved security in SeaMonkey · 2006-12-07 19:29 by Wladimir Palant
Changes
- SeaMonkey: Switched on a security setting that isn’t used by default for some reason