Adblock Plus and (a little) more

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.

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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.

Adblock Plus 1.0 for Android released · 2012-11-27 11:34 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.

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

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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

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Changes

Fixed issue affecting loading of filters in old Firefox version (including Firefox 10).
Fixed wrong apostrophe encoding in translations (especially Italian).

Adblock Plus 2.2 released · 2012-11-21 17:58 by Wladimir Palant

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The main change in this release is the new typo correction feature (not enabled by default). Other changes:

License change: Source code license for Adblock Plus is now GNU General Public License version 3.0 instead of Mozilla Public License version 2.0
Fixed: Firefox Sync support broken in Firefox 19.
Fixed: Text in Filter Preferences window doesn’t always adapt if the window is maximized (forum topic).
Fixed: Progress bar in issue reporter should go from right to left for right-to-left languages.
Removed use of E4X by the issue reporter (E4X is being deprecated by Mozilla).

Typo correction feature in Adblock Plus · 2012-11-21 16:40 by Wladimir Palant

Lots of Adblock Plus users were complaining about unintentionally landing on web pages that tried to use their mistake by either showing ads to them or even by installing malware. We heard you and thought up a way to fix that. A few months ago we took over the development of the URL Fixer extension and made some substantial improvements. Now this functionality is ready for prime time and has been added to Adblock Plus 2.2.

Adblock Plus 1.3.2 for Opera released · 2012-11-14 18:55 by Wladimir Palant

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This is a minor improvement over our release yesterday. It fixes a bug in the way we dealt with raw regular expression filters and it adds back the whitelisted domains feature (not accessible via the Adblock Plus icon yet, whitelisted domains have to be added on the Options page).