Adblock Plus and (a little) more
File upload crash fixed · 2013-10-04 13:25 by Wladimir Palant
There have been a number of reports about Internet Explorer crashing on file upload when Adblock Plus is installed (e.g. this one). These issues should be resolved as of Adblock Plus 1.0.541 for Internet Explorer.
We’ve got a few reports of Adblock Plus still hanging Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 8.1 even with the previous development build. So far we weren’t able to reproduce these issues however.
Weird SSL misconfigurations · 2013-10-01 13:40 by Wladimir Palant
TL;DR: Some Firefox installations don’t support strong encryption and I wonder why that is.
There is one issue with relying on community-supplied filter lists in Adblock Plus: these lists are sometimes hosted on unreliable services that will go down without any prior notice. That’s why a fallback solution had to be designed in the early stages of the projects: if a client cannot reach a filter download server several times in a row it should query a fallback URL which could reply with a new location for that filter list. These fallback requests can also be used to notice issues with filter downloads that the owners of the filter lists didn’t notice themselves.
"No Adblock Plus icon" issue in Firefox fixed for some scenarios · 2013-10-01 12:36 by Wladimir Palant
Adblock Plus 2.3.2.3721 for Firefox should resolve a long-standing issue where some people didn’t have any Adblock Plus user interface (especially no icon) in the Firefox windows opened on startup. We could trace that issue back to delays in the Firefox startup sequence, e.g. caused by a master password prompt showing up before any Firefox windows. The result was Adblock Plus not “noticing” these windows when it initialized.
Technical details: This issue was introduced in February by our fix for bug 819561 (Pages opened by Adblock Plus during installation should open in the same PB window). There we switched to a different approach to enumerate Firefox windows. However, this enumeration approach turned out to ignore windows that were already open but didn’t become visible yet. Now we are combining both enumeration approaches to make sure that no windows are missed.
Fixed Enhanced Protected Mode support on Windows 8 · 2013-09-25 12:57 by Wladimir Palant
It seems that Enhanced Protected Mode support in the previous development build wasn’t quite working correctly, people using Windows 8 were experiencing hangs. This issue should be resolved in Adblock Plus for IE 1.0.537. Please help us test this new development build.
There is a crash when uploading email attachments that we would still like to fix before the release. Other than that no more changes are expected.
Enhanced Protected Mode support in IE · 2013-09-19 08:10 by Felix Dahlke
Adblock Plus for IE 1.0.533 now supports Enhanced Protected Mode, which is available since Internet Explorer 10 and enabled per default in Internet Explorer 11.
So if you’re on IE10 or IE11 and disabled Enhanced Protected Mode to make Adblock Plus work, please enable it again and help us test it.
Adblock Plus 1.5.5 for Chrome and Opera released · 2013-09-02 13:13 by Wladimir Palant
Install Adblock Plus 1.5.5 for Chrome
Install Adblock Plus 1.5.5 for Opera
This release implements a partial work-around for Chromium bug 281711. This bug prevented Adblock Plus from blocking ads on pages that were opened from Flash (e.g. when people clicked the YouTube link inside a YouTube video).
Adblock Plus 1.1.3 for Android released · 2013-08-28 13:19 by Andrey Novikov
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If you already have Adblock Plus for Android, it should notify you about the update shortly and download it automatically.
This release disables sound in notifications that appear when the device is attached to a Wi-Fi network yet no traffic arrives at the proxy (meaning most likely that the proxy isn’t configured correctly). This change was implemented to eliminate annoyance for devices connecting to open Wi-Fi networks automatically without sending any data.
Adblock Plus 1.5.4 for Chrome and Opera released · 2013-08-16 12:51 by Wladimir Palant
Install Adblock Plus 1.5.4 for Chrome
Install Adblock Plus 1.5.4 for Opera
This emergency release fixes a serious bug that caused opting out of acceptable ads to be reverted. Other changes in this release are:
- Fixed localization issue breaking extension for Danish users.
- Fixed localization issues resulting in broken links on the Options page.
- Updated punycode library.
Bug in Adblock Plus for Chrome and Opera caused acceptable ads setting to be reverted · 2013-08-16 12:51 by Wladimir Palant
What happened?
Adblock Plus for Chrome and Opera releases starting with version 1.5.1 had a very bad bug: acceptable ads were enabled on update, even for users who previously opted out. This issue is fixed in the Adblock Plus 1.5.4 release but the damage is already done — there is no way to distinguish users who opted out and had acceptable ads re-enabled on update from those who didn’t opt out.
What should somebody who opted out previously do now?
If you use Adblock Plus for Chrome or Opera and unchecked “Allow some non-intrusive advertising” previously then chances are that it is checked again now. You will have to go into Adblock Plus options and uncheck it again. Unfortunately, this issue cannot be repaired automatically. We are really sorry about that.
Adblock Plus 1.0 for Internet Explorer released · 2013-08-13 17:15 by Wladimir Palant
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We proudly present you the first Adblock Plus release for Internet Explorer! While there is still much room for improvement, we feel that the current version is ready to be used. It is compatible to any Internet Explorer version down to Internet Explorer 6 with the following limitations:
- Adblock Plus currently doesn’t support Enhanced Protected Mode of Internet Explorer 10, we expect that to be resolved in a follow-up release soon.
- Metro mode Internet Explorer in Windows 8 and Internet Explorer in Windows RT currently cannot be supported, these are locked down environments that don’t allow any extensions.
Other than that we’ve resolved most of the issues our original development build was experiencing. The one issue remaining is the placement of the icon: Adblock Plus icon still shows up in the status bar and normally you will need to enable it manually to show it. Also, we are aware of some remaining inconsistencies in the way blocking and element hiding rules work in Internet Explorer compared to Firefox or Chrome, we will continue working on eliminating these.