Adblock Plus and (a little) more

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.

Adblock Plus 1.9.1 for Chrome, Opera and Safari released · 2015-07-14 17:41 by Thomas Greiner

Install Adblock Plus 1.9.1 for Chrome
Install Adblock Plus 1.9.1 for Opera
Install Adblock Plus 1.9.1 for Safari (Safari 6 or higher required)

Changes

Added global opt-out for notifications (issue 2195).
Immediately show notifications after they were downloaded (issue 2419).
Reduced delay of initial download of notifications (issue 2659).
Fixed: Notification data was reset when pages load during extension intitialization (issue 2757).

Adblock Plus for Internet Explorer with support for administrator install · 2015-07-08 18:09 by Oleksandr Paraska

Going in line with our Chrome and Firefox versions of Adblock Plus, it is now possible to suppress the first run page, and disable the automatic updates in Adblock Plus for Internet Explorer. This feature is now available in the latest devbuild 1.4.796

University students validate LSD Project · 2015-07-08 14:15 by Ben Williams

Simon Fraser University conducted a study to test how efficient Adblock Plus is. They found that it significantly reduced network data usage, something that has direct implications for IT admins on large networks (like companies and universities) interested in our new Adblock Plus for Administrators feature.

Major Adblock Plus update for Chrome includes feature for mass installation on big networks · 2015-06-16 14:37 by Ben Williams

Adblock Plus today released version 1.9 for Chrome, Opera and Safari. This is the first update in around three months, and it includes improvements to performance and a new feature for IT admins that will make it significantly easier to deploy Adblock Plus across very large networks.