Adblock Plus and (a little) more
Thunderbird support almost complete · 2006-09-24 05:34 by Wladimir Palant
Changes
- Switched to new icons
- Thunderbird is now supported
- Option “block remote ads in local pages” now considers mailboxes to be local pages
- Fixed typos in contents.rdf for the Norwegian and Ukrainian locales
Known issues
Thunderbird’s “account central” page can be blockedJavaScript exception when editing filters in Thunderbird- SeaMonkey Mail not yet supported
- Songbird integration is absolutely minimal, only way to get to Adblock Plus Preferences is via File / Extensions / Options
- Thunderbird: Blockable items list always detached in Thunderbird — Thunderbird doesn’t allow sidebar
- Thunderbird: Toolbar icon is only created automatically in either main or message window but not both
- Thunderbird: Default keyboard shortcut Ctrl-Shift-A for Adblock Plus Preferences conflicts with a default keyboard shortcut (Edit / Select / Thread)
- Status bar icon is always located at the very end of the status bar and probably cannot even be moved with Organize Status Bar
Thunderbird, first impressions · 2006-09-23 04:55 by Wladimir Palant
I have been experimenting with Adblock Plus in Thunderbird (large parts of the user interface work already, I’ll release a development build soon). It looks like I might stop using “Simplified HTML” + “Block loading of remote images”, a setup I have been using for over three years. But maybe now I can finally enjoy reading RSS feeds with images.
Google does it again · 2006-09-22 01:13 by Wladimir Palant
When I first saw this, I could only think — wow! Word processing and spreadsheets are classical examples of areas where web applications will never be able to achieve the quality of desktop applications. But Google made a habit out of overthrowing accepted wisdoms and so they’ve gone great lengths to make their spreadsheets web app feel like a desktop application — with success, for most part.
Adblock Plus for Thunderbird - coming! · 2006-09-21 23:37 by Wladimir Palant
Note that even though this development build installs in Thunderbird and Songbird there is absolutely no user interface integration. You can only access the preferences via Tools / Extensions / Options (or File / Extensions / Options in Songbird). Integration in Thunderbird will improve, Songbird integration will stay very basic however — your best choice will be to install a subscription there.
Changes
- Changed install.rdf to allow installation in Thunderbird and Songbird
- Removed mail-specific protocols from the whitelist to allow blocking content in Thunderbird
- Fixed checkboxes in welcome dialog on Linux (forum thread)
- Now blocking content on keyword: URLs as well (bug 15072)
- Removed URL validation when deciding whether the URL uses to a whitelisted scheme (bug 15072)
- Made about:blank an exception, isn’t whitelisted by its scheme any more (bug 14793)
Did somebody ask for K-Meleon support? · 2006-09-20 03:36 by Wladimir Palant
This is the first development build of the binary K-Meleon plugin that allows K-Meleon users to use Adblock Plus. It is basically Adblock Plus 0.7.1.2 with a different packaging.
Adblock - the evolution · 2006-09-10 00:31 by Wladimir Palant
Did you know when the Adblock project came to be? Have you ever wondered whether there ever was Adblock 0.1? Maybe also asking yourself what it looked like? Now you can get the answers to all these questions, and since one picture says more than a thousand words — you also get screenshots. Thanks to CVS’ long memory these screenshots are still there for us — take a look!
Немного о книгах · 2006-09-04 00:30 by Wladimir Palant
Все-таки не выдержал и прочитал сразу почти все книги, которые привез от родителей из Германии — старенького Брэдбери (чисто из спортивного интереса, ничего из себя не представляет), две Нины Васины (захватывающе и весьма оригинально, не ожидал) и “Чапаев и Пустота” Пелевина (Пелевин в своем репертуаре, очень неплохо).
Extension idea: Share Your Adblock List · 2006-09-03 01:59 by Wladimir Palant
I discussed automated publishing of filter lists with Malte Kraus (aka Dr. Evil) a while ago and I got an idea for an extension that might be useful. It should extend Adblock Plus (and maybe Adblock as well) to allow publishing your list of filters with two clicks. Unfortunately I won’t have time to implement it (the extension itself is pretty trivial but the server side will take some time).
Deutsche Übersetzung von adblockplus.org endlich (fast) komplett · 2006-09-01 17:28 by Wladimir Palant
For those not speaking German: this is the announcement that the German translation of adblockplus.org is finally complete.
Eine gute Nachricht für alle deutschsprachigen Besucher von adblockplus.org: die deutsche Version der Seite ist endlich komplett. Ausnahmen sind lediglich die Dokumentation der nsIAdblockPlus-Schnittstelle, die nicht übersetzt werden sollte, und Änderungslisten für ältere Versionen — diese sollten auch irgendwann übersetzt werden.
Adblock Plus 0.7.2 is going to be great! · 2006-08-23 19:59 by Wladimir Palant
For some reason the last two days have been very productive — I found solutions for three basic problems that have been bugging me for quite a while.
But first of all I have to admit my stupidity. I added “immediate unblocking” to “long term plans” because I thought that it would require changes in Gecko. Then I found out that Gecko already had something like what I was thinking about, yet getting it to work correctly would take some time (that’s when I added this feature to the plans for the next release, with a question mark). And only now I finally saw the obvious solution — in order to make something run through the content policies again you have to remove it from the document and then re-add.