Adblock Plus and (a little) more
Adblock Plus 2.5.1 for Firefox released · 2014-02-20 19:06 by Thomas Greiner
Install Adblock Plus 2.5.1 for Firefox
This release introduces a new notification that shows up the first time users visit a website which show obtrusive anti-adblock messages asking them whether to block those or not. Apart from this addition it also includes the following changes:
- Fixed: Pipe character in filters interpreted wrong under some circumstances
- Fixed: Share window on first-run page doesn’t appear
New blog · 2014-02-13 11:06 by Wladimir Palant
For a while, I have been occasionally misusing the Adblock Plus project blog for articles that had no relation to Adblock Plus whatsoever. I posted various articles on security, Mozilla and XULRunner there, general extension development advise, occasionally some private stuff. With the project growing and more people joining I am no longer the only person posting to the Adblock Plus blog, treating it as my private blog isn’t appropriate. So a while ago I decided to set up a separate private blog for myself and now I finally found the time to implement this. My off-topic blog posts have been migrated to the new location. Now you can read my blog if you are interested in the random stuff I post there, or you can keep reading the Adblock Plus blog if all you are interested in is Adblock Plus.
Adblock Plus 1.7.3 for Chrome and Opera released · 2014-01-29 17:38 by Wladimir Palant
Install Adblock Plus 1.7.3 for Chrome
Install Adblock Plus 1.7.3 for Opera (Opera 17 or higher required)
This release fixes pop-up blocking that was broken in the previous release. It also addresses a long standing issue, the size of the “Block element” dialog wasn’t always set correctly.
Adblock Plus for Safari Beta released · 2014-01-21 15:56 by Sebastian Noack
Install Adblock Plus for Safari
I spent the past months porting Adblock Plus to Safari. And by now, we’ve got something that is stable enough to release as a beta. Adblock Plus for Safari uses mostly the same codebase as Adblock Plus for Chrome/Opera. So it has the same features and every improvement we do in the future for either browser extension will automatically land in the extension for the other browsers.
Adblock Plus 2.4.1 for Firefox released · 2014-01-14 17:04 by Wladimir Palant
Install Adblock Plus 2.4.1 for Firefox
This release introduces support for the Australis theme that will be introduced in future Firefox versions. Other changes:
- Default icon location is the navigation toolbar again (add-on bar is going away).
- Fixed image preview in the list of blockable items (forum topic).
- Fixed keyboard shortcut on Mac OS X (Control key was used instead of Command).
- Fixed: Changes to Adblock Plus options didn’t always persist.
Year 2013 in retrospect · 2013-12-31 10:17 by Wladimir Palant
The year is coming to an end, this is a good time to look back at what we’ve achieved. We’ve founded Eyeo more than two years ago but getting things rolling always takes time. Before September last year we still had only two developers and could do little more than maintaining the existing code base. And it wasn’t until 2013 that the new developers got up to speed and could contribute significantly to our projects. Here is an incomplete and subjective list of what we’ve achieved this year:
Adblock Plus 1.7.2 for Chrome and Opera released · 2013-12-19 14:36 by Wladimir Palant
Install Adblock Plus 1.7.2 for Chrome
Install Adblock Plus 1.7.2 for Opera (Opera 17 or higher required)
The previous release introduced issues with some old Chrome versions (reported for Chrome 24 and 25), element hiding wouldn’t work there. These have now been fixed. Also, the download size has been reduced again.
Adblock Plus 1.7 for Chrome and Opera released · 2013-12-18 15:57 by Thomas Greiner
Install Adblock Plus 1.7 for Chrome
Install Adblock Plus 1.7 for Opera (Opera 17 or higher required)
This release includes significant changes to the icon and the icon popup. It is the next step in redesigning the entire UI after releasing new versions of our first-run page on all platforms earlier this year.
The redesigned popup allows us to seamlessly integrate features such as the blocked ads counter and the emergency notifications. Users who want to hide the icon can now right-click on it and hide it from there which is why we removed the related option from the Options page. The icon can be brought back on the browser’s Extensions page.
Changes in detail
- Icon popup has been redesigned.
- Extension icon has been improved and relocated from the address bar to the browser toolbar.
- The number of blocked elements on the current page can be displayed in the icon now.
- Simplified selecting element to block on some websites, if the element selected cannot be blocked its parent container will be selected instead.
- Selection of element to block now reacts to Enter and Esc hotkeys (select element and cancel selection respectively).
- Fixed: Selecting element to block didn’t prevent links from being followed.
- Fixed: Elements would sometimes be stuck with wrong background color after “Block element” menu item was used and canceled.
Links not working on a website? You can fix that! · 2013-12-04 10:42 by Wladimir Palant
Adblock Plus users who decided to disable tracking have been complaining about severe issues on some websites for a while already. On the websites in question, clicking a link simply wouldn’t do anything unless one disables Adblock Plus. Our investigation has shown that bugs in Adobe SiteCatalyst are to blame for this issue. SiteCatalyst is a tracking solution that Adobe acquired from Omniture. A “forced link tracking” feature introduced recently is the source of these issues. Originally it was enabled for Google Chrome only, in a follow-up version for Mozilla Firefox as well.
Adblock Plus trademarks · 2013-12-03 16:20 by Till Faida
Recently we’ve encountered a growing number of people mimicking our logo and our look and feel, so we will now be taking steps to secure our trademark. Of course, users still have considerable freedom to redistribute and modify our open source software, but we need to secure our trademarks to protect you against those who would use them to commit fraud.