Adblock Plus and (a little) more

Suppressing the first-run page on Chrome · 2015-04-20 17:18 by Sebastian Noack

We’ve been asked by system administrators who want to deploy Adblock Plus on their network for a way to disable the first-run page.

This is now possible with Adblock Plus for Chrome. The current Adblock Plus development build, 1.8.12.1419, and the upcoming release, 1.9, can be configured by extension policies to suppress the first-run page.

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Adblock Plus 2.6.9 for Firefox released · 2015-03-31 23:56 by Wladimir Palant

Install Adblock Plus 2.6.9 for Firefox

This is another quality and stability release:

Slightly optimized performance, domain-specific filters will no longer affect overall performance (issue 2177).
Added extensions.adblockplus.suppress_first_run_page preference to allow administrators disable the first-run page if Adblock Plus is installed globally (issue 206). Note that additional changes are required to make this preference usable.
Fixed: $elemhide filter option doesn’t consider website signatures correctly (issue 2151).

A year later, the call for better ads is deafening: the manifesto turns 1 · 2015-03-26 11:32 by Ben Williams

The Acceptable Ads Manifesto is about to celebrate its first birthday! In the past year its membership has more than tripled, and we’re looking forward to more signees who are ready to do the dirty work to get rid of bad ads.

Adblock Plus 1.3 for Android and an apparent change in permissions · 2015-03-12 18:34 by René Jeschke

We have encountered users wondering about an apparently new permission declared by Adblock Plus 1.3 for Android, namely: ‘full permissions to all device features and storage’. Here’s the explanation about this new permission.

Diagnostics 1.2.5 released · 2015-03-10 21:08 by Wladimir Palant

Install Diagnostics 1.2.5

This release updates the extension icon to match the new Adblock Plus logo.

Element Hiding Helper 1.3.2 released · 2015-03-10 21:06 by Wladimir Palant

Install Element Hiding Helper 1.3.2

This release updates the extension icon to match the new Adblock Plus logo.

Adblock Plus 2.6.8 for Firefox released · 2015-03-10 21:00 by Wladimir Palant

Install Adblock Plus 2.6.8 for Firefox

This release features the improved icon and logo that are already being used in Chrome, Opera and Safari (issue 1534, issue 2053, issue 2072). It also fixes an issue with the search functionality in the Filter Preferences affecting Firefox 36 and above (issue 2041).

Adblock Plus 1.8.12 for Chrome, Opera and Safari released · 2015-03-10 20:41 by Sebastian Noack

Install Adblock Plus 1.8.12 for Chrome
Install Adblock Plus 1.8.12 for Opera
Install Adblock Plus 1.8.12 for Safari (Safari 6 or higher required)

Changes

Fixed: Trailing question marks in URLs were ignored, which caused issues with some video websites (issue 2026).
Fixed some inconsistencies with the new icon and improved support for high resolution displays (issue 2049, issue 2050, issue 2052 and issue 2053).
Improved behavior of ‘Block element’ dialog (issue 370, issue 1282, issue 1853, issue 2076 and issue 2081).

Chrome/Opera-only changes

Fixed: Placeholders for blocked elements showed up in dynamically created frames (issue 2084).

Opera-only changes

Fixed: Opening the options page from the icon popup didn’t work when the option page was already open in a different tab (issue 2079).

Safari-only changes

OBJECT, MEDIA and OTHER requests are distinguished now (issue 2064).
Fixed: Tabs opened before loading the extension weren’t recognized (issue 2082).

Changing “Block element” dialog behavior on Chrome, Opera and Safari · 2015-03-05 12:11 by Sebastian Noack

We’ve just fixed some conceptual issues with the “Block element” functionality in Adblock Plus as available from the icon menu and the context menu on Chrome, Opera and Safari. This feature lets you select an element on the current page and generate filters to block it.

These changes are now visible in the development builds as of Adblock Plus 1.8.11.1386, and will be included in the upcoming release of Adblock Plus 1.8.12, planned for next Tuesday on March 10, 2015.

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Adblock Plus 1.3 for Android released · 2015-03-03 12:30 by René Jeschke

Install Adblock Plus for Android

If you already have Adblock Plus for Android, it should notify you about the update shortly and download it automatically.

We did a lot of under-the-hood changes again, rewrote the way libadblockplus is integrated (#16) and cleaned up the different methods for setting the proxy and deciding which method to use (#547).

Besides that we:

improved compatibility with Android Lollipop (#1498, #1848)
reduced the memory usage (#303)
included twelve new translations

and, of course, fixed a lot of various minor and major issues.

A list of all resolved issues for this release can be found here.