Adblock Plus and (a little) more
Ethics of blocking ads - Part 2 · 2006-10-25 10:23 by Wladimir Palant
This article continues the discussion on ethical implications of ad blocking software. Since the first part was probably somewhat too abstract we should take an example this time — Heise.de.
Adblock Plus 0.7.2.1 released · 2006-10-25 01:00 by Wladimir Palant
Changes
This release fixes a critical bug in Adblock Plus 0.7.2. Sorry about missing that one out :-(
Adblock Plus 0.7.2 released · 2006-10-25 00:24 by Wladimir Palant
Major changes
- Translations added: Slovenian, Hungarian, Vietnamese
- Support for Thunderbird, SeaMonkey Mail, K-Meleon and Songbird
- New Adblock Plus icons
- Optimized filter processing (especially for large lists)
Adblock Plus 0.7.2 release candidate · 2006-10-24 08:25 by Wladimir Palant
Changes
- New languages: Slovenian, Hungarian, Vietnamese
- Implemented new pattern matching algorithm to speed up processing of large filter lists
- Reduced impact of object tabs on page’s HTML code, no more problems with WYSIWYG editors like the ones used in some blogs
- Optimized processing
- Fixed item width in welcom dialog in SeaMonkey
Known issues
SeaMonkey Mail not yet supported- No toolbar icon in SeaMonkey Mail (statusbar icon shows up instead)
Thunderbird: Whitelisting for blog entries should still go by website and not by sender- Danish, Korean and Traditional Chinese locales contain some English strings
"Русские" и Германия · 2006-10-22 09:12 by Wladimir Palant
Подумал недавно над тем, как наши бывшие соотечественники, родившиеся на территории бывшего Союза и эмигрировавшие в Германию уже в сознательном возрасте, эту самую Германию воспринимают. Получилось, что тут в основном существует три категории.
Subscription suggestions rewrite complete · 2006-10-19 18:36 by Wladimir Palant
Changes
- Changed welcome dialog to allow only one subscription to be selected
- Only left the really recommended and universal subscriptions in the welcome dialog, other subscriptions moved to a website (linked from the welcome dialog and new subscription dialog)
The good news keep coming · 2006-10-06 04:15 by Wladimir Palant
I got a message from Mike Shaver telling that AMO is revising and extending its list of recommended add-ons for Firefox 2 release — and Adblock Plus should be one of them.
It is traveling time again · 2006-10-03 02:15 by Wladimir Palant
I will be traveling a lot, starting this Saturday. I am taking the remaining week of my vacation visiting Cologne and Hamburg, then I’ll be attending to ACM Multimedia in Santa Barbara, CA and NetGames in Singapore. I won’t be back in Oslo until November so don’t expect me to do much Adblock Plus development until then. I’ll try to answer mails from time to time.
K-Meleon support: three more issues fixed · 2006-10-01 22:55 by Wladimir Palant
Note: Minimal required browser version is K-Meleon 1.02.
Known issues
Subscription suggestions dialog causes each toolbar to be placed on a separate line (only visible in the Russian version of K-Meleon for some reason)K-Meleon sometimes crashes on exit (only visible in the Russian version of K-Meleon for some reason)Toolbar icon uses a whole line for itself by default, needs to be moved/resized(thanks to Quicksilver tears)
First browser with Adblock Plus built-in released · 2006-09-29 01:58 by Wladimir Palant
The very first browser with Adblock Plus built-in was released today — K-MeleonCCF 0.05.6.5, thanks Hao Jiang. And that despite the fact that the development build used was marked EXPERIMENTAL and that it wasn’t tested at all in this variation of K-Meleon (unlike the regular K-Meleon it has tabs, and this release is actually the first version not to crash when Adblock Plus is installed).