Adblock Plus and (a little) more
Adblock Plus 2.2.3 for Firefox released · 2013-02-13 17:51 by Wladimir Palant
This release mostly works around breakage caused by AVG Security Toolbar 14.0.3.* extension, it prevented Adblock Plus from working correctly among other things. Other changes:
- Made sure that first-run page always opens is the current browser window (bug 819561).
Worked around AVG Security Toolbar issue · 2013-02-07 16:21 by Wladimir Palant
Current Adblock Plus versions are broken if AVG Security Toolbar 14.0.3.14 is installed. Investigation turned up a serious issue in AVG Security Toolbar affecting a lot more than just Adblock Plus and AVG has been notified about it. In the meantime the current Adblock Plus development build (Adblock Plus 2.2.3a.3629) implements a work-around that allows it to function properly nevertheless. Unless any issues pop up we are going to release Adblock Plus 2.2.3 with this fix next Tuesday.
Forward compatibility of filters [Done] · 2013-02-04 09:31 by Wladimir Palant
Done, this proposal has been implemented as of 2013-07-08.
Current state
A small number of our users stays on outdated Adblock Plus versions forever, e.g. 0.5% are still on Adblock Plus 0.7.* (mostly 0.7.5.5). There are similar numbers for Adblock Plus 1.3.10 which is the last version that can be installed on PowerPC Macs by regular means. Outdated versions create issues for filter list authors who don’t want to cause breakage for these users and have to use backwards-compatible filters like foo$popup,image,~image instead of just foo$popup. This is largely because Adblock Pus simply ignores unknown filter options.
Simplifying subscription downloads module [Done] · 2013-02-04 08:18 by Wladimir Palant
Done, this proposal has been implemented as of 2013-07-08.
The module responsible for updating subscriptions is one of the most complicated components of Adblock Plus, also one that is notoriously complicated to test properly. Much of the code here is outdated for one reason or another.
Adblock Plus 2.2.2 for Firefox released · 2013-01-30 18:51 by Wladimir Palant
Changes
- Worked around regression in Firefox 18 causing entries on the blockable items list to disappear and preventing context menu from working reliably.
- Issue reporter now encourages users to enter an email address when submitting issue reports.
- Removed Do-Not-Track handling which is redundant with Firefox supporting it as well (blog post).
- Added support for per-window private browsing in Firefox 20.
- Fixed: Changes in Firefox 19 broke issue reporter.
- Fixed: “null” access keys show up in Firefox 20.
- Fixed: Context menu broken on background images in Firefox 20.
Improving subscriptions download infrastructure · 2013-01-17 14:18 by Wladimir Palant
As some people probably noticed, our roadmap page hasn’t been updated in a while. I originally used it to communicate what I am working on and what my priorities currently are — but one centralized roadmap simply doesn’t work any more with multiple people on the team working on various aspects of the project in parallel. So I want to try a different approach — have roadmaps for major changes that we are working on posted to the blog. You can see all of them by looking at the corresponding blog category and there is also a separate RSS feed for them. We will try to update the roadmaps to make sure it’s obvious what has been done already.
The batch of tasks here is about the subscriptions download infrastructure, the servers that EasyList and some other filter subscriptions are downloaded from.
New adblockplus.org · 2013-01-10 16:31 by Felix Dahlke
As of now, the new adblockplus.org is finally online. These were some of our goals for the new website:
- More appealing, yet simple design
- Better navigation
- A decent mobile version
- Should work in any popular browser, including Internet Explorer 6
- Should work with JavaScript disabled
- A single landing page, not one for each platform
I believe we’ve managed all that, what do you think?
Read on if you’re interested in the technical side.
Some Firefox 20 compatibility fixes · 2012-12-19 15:52 by Wladimir Palant
Adblock Plus 2.2.2a.3602 fixes a bunch of issues currently affecting users of Firefox nightly builds (Firefox 20):
- Issue reporter hangs up while collecting data
- The new per-window private browsing mode isn’t properly respected, hits are still counted
- Toolbar icon menu lists “null” access keys
This build also removes Do-Not-Track support as announced earlier. Adblock Plus will still recognize rules like *$donottrack to prevent them from causing issues but they won’t have any effect.
Adblock Plus 1.3.4 for Google Chrome™ released · 2012-12-18 14:26 by Wladimir Palant
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This is a bugfix release, it fixes an issue with the signature validation code in Adblock Plus. It also updates translations, our volunteers on Crowdin finished translating Adblock Plus for Chrome into twenty languages.
Version number notes: there was no 1.3.2 or 1.3.3 release for Chrome, we released Adblock Plus with these version numbers for Opera however.
Adblock Plus 1.0.1 for Android released · 2012-12-04 14:55 by Andrey Novikov
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If your phone doesn’t have access to Google Play you can also use the “Direct download” link on our homepage.
This release fixes a number of critical issues which made application crash and adds an option to hide notification icon.