Adblock Plus and (a little) more
Spare time projects and the "donate now" syndrome · 2006-11-07 04:46 by Wladimir Palant
I guess many of you have seen this development of a project already, maybe even more than once. Some developer has an idea he works on in his spare time. He shares his work with others without asking anything in return and the feedback allows him to improve it to a point where this project gains some popularity. Great features are being added, there are lots of plans for the future — until suddenly the project stalls. That’s usually the point where the developer explains that he needs money that would allow him to spend more time on the project.
Upgraded to Textpattern 4.0.4 · 2006-11-05 23:05 by Wladimir Palant
Textpattern 4.0.4 has been released and now I upgraded this site. RSS encoding issues have been fixed so that I could drop one of my patches — good. Textpattern now has what looks like decent support for the Last-Modified header, yet it shows the date when anything has been changed anywhere on the server — could be better. Some forms will probably need to be changed, I already had to tweak the comments display. But what I am mostly worried about are the changes to the Textile markup module which is the most fragile part of the whole application. Right now the HTML code of the pages is cached but once I start editing them I’ll probably have to fight invalid markup again. Please watch out for anything on this site that isn’t working/showing up as it should and drop me a mail if you notice something.
Adblock Plus 0.7.2.2 released · 2006-10-30 18:37 by Wladimir Palant
Major changes
- Improved K-Meleon and Songbird integration
- Installation in SeaMonkey possible by simply copying the files (instructions)
- Fixed English strings in Danish and Traditional Chinese translations
- Fixed: Status bar icon always displayed as the most right icon, cannot be moved with Organize Status Bar
Autoregistration for SeaMonkey done · 2006-10-30 07:41 by Wladimir Palant
Changes
- SeaMonkey: Extension registers automatically, only need to copy the files to install
Almost there for Adblock Plus 0.7.2.2 release · 2006-10-30 01:33 by Wladimir Palant
Only one change missing for Adblock Plus 0.7.2.2 — automatic registration to allow installation in SeaMonkey by simply copying the files.
Changes
- K-Meleon: Added context menu to the toolbar icon
- Fixed: Should not offer whitelisting options for about:blank
Known issues
Message showing up when context menu is openedSongbird: Status bar icon doesn’t have a context menuSongbird: Keyboard shortcuts don’t work- Songbird: Toolbar icon not supported, status bar icon shows up instead
Improving Songbird user interface integration · 2006-10-28 12:28 by Wladimir Palant
Changes
- Songbird: Added Adblock Plus menu item to the Files menu
- Songbird: Added Adblock Plus icon to the status bar
- Fixed: Status bar icon always displayed as the most right icon, cannot be moved with Organize Status Bar
- Fixed? Enter/Tab key trigger Adblock Plus actions
Known issues
- Songbird: Status bar icon doesn’t have a context menu
- Songbird: Keyboard shortcuts don’t work
Moving Adblock Plus focus from filters to subscriptions · 2006-10-28 09:00 by Wladimir Palant
Brian Yi (you probably know him as “Stupid Head” in the forums) wrote down some nice ideas about the reasons for popularity of Adblock (Plus) and how the development should continue. He points out that most people can’t create their own filters or simply don’t want to spend their time on this. That’s why subscriptions are so important for wide-spread adoption, they allow people to install Adblock Plus once and let it run all by itself.
Now that news video is funny! · 2006-10-28 08:16 by Wladimir Palant
Opening in new tab from SeaMonkey Mail fixed · 2006-10-26 01:43 by Wladimir Palant
Changes
- Updated findbar icons to match Firefox 2.0 theme
- Fixed: “Open Link in New Tab” stopped working in SeaMonkey Mail (bug 15536)
- Fixed: Ads not blocked in newsgroup posts (forum thread)
We are back in Top10 - and Adblock is out! · 2006-10-25 23:36 by Wladimir Palant
It finally happened — for the first time Adblock Plus has more downloads than Adblock. Only a few moments ago Adblock Plus moved up to rank 10th on AMO and pushed Adblock onto the 11th place. I hope that this time Adblock Plus will get a permanent place in the Top10 (actually, I count on getting into Top5 within the next few days). Last time it was prevented by an problem with the caching server at AMO.