Adblock Plus and (a little) more
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
Install Adblock Plus for Android
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.
Adblock Plus 1.0 for Android released · 2012-11-27 11:34 by Andrey Novikov
Install Adblock Plus for Android
If your phone doesn’t have access to Google Play you can also use the “Direct download” link on our homepage.
Until recently blocking ads on Android meant that you have to install Firefox and then Adblock Plus for Firefox. Things just got simpler for users of other browsers: all you need now is the Adblock Plus app. It works in background and filters out ads in almost all Android browsers and apps. Android 2.1 and higher is supported, the app uses the same filter lists as the Adblock Plus browser extensions.
Note that we are still in the early development stages with this application and there is certainly much room for improvement. There are also important limitations depending on the Android version on your device and whether your device has been rooted:
- Rooted: Ads can be blocked on Wi-Fi and mobile connections.
- Non-rooted with Android 3.1 or later: Ads will be blocked on Wi-Fi connections only.
- Non-rooted with Android 3.0 or earlier: Some manual configuration is required.
Note that Android does not allow ads to be blocked on SSL encrypted websites. Also, Adblock Plus for Android will only block ads in Firefox and Opera browsers on rooted devices.
Sorry about the server outage · 2012-11-23 14:20 by Wladimir Palant
Following the Adblock Plus 2.2 release yesterday our server became pretty much unreachable. This was the result of the new typo correction feature downloading its database. Unfortunately, while I was very focused on ensuring that this feature has the necessary quality I entirely forgot what this one server request per user would mean for our old server which cannot really handle much load. A new server with much more resources is handling this now but that change still took a day to propagate. Sorry about that, again a lesson learned.
Adblock Plus 1.3.3 for Opera released · 2012-11-23 11:31 by Felix Dahlke
Install Adblock Plus for Opera
Note: In order to install from our website you have to add https://adblockplus.org to the list of trusted websites in Opera. This will no longer be necessary once the update is approved on the Opera Add-ons site.
Also note: Opera has changed the version to 1.3.4 on the add-ons site, but we’ll keep referring to this version as 1.3.3.
This release fixes issues that made ad blocking not work at all for some users. It wasn’t easy to reproduce, but having many extensions installed made it more likely to break. The problem was that Opera began to handle timeout events before loading all scripts, something we haven’t experienced with other browsers. This caused initialization errors under certain conditions.
If ad blocking still doesn’t work for you after installing this update, please report a bug.
Adblock Plus 2.2.1 released · 2012-11-23 10:56 by Wladimir Palant
Changes
- Fixed issue affecting loading of filters in old Firefox version (including Firefox 10).
- Fixed wrong apostrophe encoding in translations (especially Italian).