Adblock Plus and (a little) more

Element Hiding Helper 1.3.4 released · 2015-09-01 16:00 by Wladimir Palant

This is a bugfix release, solving only one issue. Element Hiding Helper 1.3.3 didn’t work in older Firefox releases, this issue is now resolved.

Let’s not f*!@ up mobile: prudence on the small screens · 2015-08-20 17:21 by Ben Williams

A New York Times piece about ad blocking had the following quote this week: “for better ads tomorrow, block ads today.” As ad spend shifts toward mobile it may actually be the newish notoriety of ad blocking, which could push online advertising away from Banner Ads 2.0 and towards something better on our mobile devices.

Element Hiding Helper 1.3.3 released · 2015-08-13 14:46 by Wladimir Palant

Install Element Hiding Helper 1.3.3

This release makes Element Hiding Helper compatible with Firefox 41 and above (fixes issue 2737 and issue 2816).

Ad blockers rising = innovation happening · 2015-08-11 16:39 by Ben Williams

The newest PageFair and Adobe ad blocking report entitled The cost of ad blocking came out yesterday. This is just another piece of evidence showing the permanence of ad blocking, even and especially as it moves toward mobile, and its role as a disruptive innovator.

Getting rid of the vampire-zombies · 2015-08-07 14:46 by Ben Williams

Ad blocking is changing the Internet. A recent study demonstrates another reason that people block annoying ads, and why ad blockers will have a solid spot in the evolving Internet. In other news, Adblock Browser for Android is almost out of beta, Adblock Browser for iOS will be done in about a month and we’ll be developing an app for iOS.

Element Hiding Helper's support for multiprocess Firefox · 2015-07-31 21:38 by Wladimir Palant

Multi-process Firefox is coming, and many people are already testing it with the Firefox nightly builds as well as Firefox Developer Edition. Mozilla went out of their way to make sure that most extensions continue to work unchanged but very often things break nevertheless. So recently Element Hiding Helper’s integration with the Inspector tool broke in Firefox 42 because the Inspector tool was made aware of multiple processes and functionality that Element Hiding Helper relied on went away.

Starting with Element Hiding Helper 1.3.2.497 this issue is resolved. Fixing it required extensive changes to the entire functionality of Element Hiding Helper, not just the Inspector integration. So we would appreciate your help testing Element Hiding Helper both in multi-process Firefox and in the “old” single-process setup.

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With new Firefox version, mass ABP-installation now available on all major browsers · 2015-07-28 15:28 by Ben Williams

Among a host of other improvements, Adblock Plus for Firefox 2.6.10 will allow IT administrators of large networks like companies or school systems to seamlessly deploy Adblock Plus across their entire network …. Plus a whole lot of other upgrades and improvements on the browser where it all started.

Adblock Plus 2.6.10 for Firefox released · 2015-07-28 15:05 by Wladimir Palant

Install Adblock Plus 2.6.10 for Firefox

This is a quality and stability release, with the focus being compatibility with upcoming Firefox versions. Most of the changes are under the hood, only the visible changes are listed:

suppress_first_run_page preference introduced by previous release can now be preconfigured by machine administrators via setting extensions.adblockplus.preconfigured.suppress_first_run_page Firefox preference (issue 2439).
Issue reporter
- Made sure there is always enough space to display report data (issue 344).
- No longer intercepting right-clicks on the resulting report link, only left- and middle-clicks result in the report being opened (issue 701).
Subscription links
- Implemented an alternative format that is easier to use in forums or emails: https://subscribe.adblockplus.org/?location=foo instead of abp:subscribe?location=foo (issue 2211).
- Fixed subscription links in multi-process Firefox (issue 1730)
Notifications
- Added global opt-out for notifications (issue 2192 and issue 2193).
- Notifications are shown immediately after download rather than waiting for a browser restart (issue 2419).
Removed inconsistent behavior (breaks backwards compatibility): exception rules starting with http:// or https:// no longer imply $document option (issue 2503).
Reduced the initial delay for filter lists and notification updates after browser startup (issue 284 and issue 2659).
First-run page: Fixed social buttons being broken starting with Firefox 38 (issue 2710).

Better support for upcoming Firefox versions · 2015-07-22 11:33 by Wladimir Palant

The Adblock Plus 2.6.9.3963 development build is a release candidate, Adblock Plus 2.6.10 for Firefox will be released next Tuesday is everything goes well. We implemented a bunch of improvements and fixed several issues affecting newer Firefox versions (especially multi-process Firefox). The most important changes are:

Fixed a syntax error breaking Adblock Plus in Firefox 41 and above (bug 1176702)
Implemented https://subscribe.adblockplus.org/?location=http://example.com/ as an alternative to abp:subscribe?location=http://example.com/ links (issue 2211).
Fixed subscribe links in multi-process Firefox (issue 1730).
Made the comment page of the issue reporter more compact so that the report data field has more space (issue 344).
Fixed share dialog on the first-run page, it was broken starting with Firefox 38 (issue 2710).

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Adblock Plus 1.9.2 for Safari released · 2015-07-17 16:14 by Sebastian Noack

Install Adblock Plus 1.9.2 for Safari (Safari 6 or higher required)

We’ve just updated the release channel of Adblock Plus for Safari. There was only one minor change that was required in order to submit the extension to the new Safari Extension Gallery (issue 2796). Submitting Adblock Plus there is important to make sure that Safari 9 users receive automatic updates in the future.

Builds for Chrome and Opera were generated as well. But since there were no user-visible changes compared to the previous release, we didn’t upload these to their respective web stores.