Adblock Plus and (a little) more
Element Hiding Helper 1.2.2 released · 2012-04-04 14:57 by Wladimir Palant
Install Element Hiding Helper 1.2.2
Changes
- Improved the way Element Hiding Helper attaches itself to browser windows (made sure that no browser windows are skipped any more).
- The hotkey in Firefox 14 is now Ctrl-Shift-F3 (neither Ctrl-Shift-K nor Ctrl-Shift-S are available any more).
- Fixed rule generation for attributes containing backslashes.
- Fixed wrong size calculation for some web pages.
- Removed special About dialog, displaying the default one now.
- Updated to changes in recent Firefox nightlies.
Upcoming and past changes to application compatibility · 2012-03-16 08:02 by Wladimir Palant
Starting with version 2.0 Adblock Plus requires at least Firefox 3.6.13 to be installed (or Thunderbird 3.1.7 or SeaMonkey 2.1). We really don’t support earlier Firefox 3.6 versions because of a critical bug that will cause Flash to break. Unfortunately, this limitation initially couldn’t be enforced by technical means (due to a limitation on addons.mozilla.org) so some people with old Firefox 3.6 versions nevertheless got it installed. If you are one of them: you should update your browser as soon as possible, already because of the numerous known security issues in the old versions.
Random thoughts on democracy and Russian presidential election · 2012-03-12 12:54 by Wladimir Palant
As some of you might know, Russia sort of elected a new old president a week ago. After taking a 4 years break as prime minister Putin now becomes Russian president for the third time. I’ve been following the Russian-language reactions to the election which I find quite interesting. While I like most readers of this blog have the luxury of living in a democracy, sometimes I need a reminder about what actually constitutes a democracy. Hint: elections in regular intervals are not sufficient.
On the pop-up blocker in Adblock Plus · 2012-02-15 18:33 by Wladimir Palant
There is a semi-hidden new feature in Adblock Plus 2.0: a pop-up blocker. I wanted to explain what this feature is about and why there are no big announcements about it.
We are back · 2012-02-09 16:04 by Wladimir Palant
As you probably noticed, the distribution update yesterday didn’t go as planned. For some reason, the new operating system confused the virtual server manager enough that it refused to start the server again. And since that issue couldn’t be resolved on our side fixing it took a while. Now the system has been restored from backup, I then applied my personal backup (because the hosting provider could only restore an old backup for reasons I’m unable to understand) and now we are only missing a few days worth of issue reports and probably a few forum posts from yesterday’s morning (roughly one hour between my backup and the start of the downtime).
Possible downtime on Wednesday · 2012-02-07 09:55 by Wladimir Palant
I will try to update the Linux distribution on adblockplus.org tomorrow (Wednesday), starting at around 8 AM CET. With some luck the server will only go down for a few seconds for a reboot. Obviously, there is some risk of an extended downtime but I hope that this time the backups will allow restoring service soon if something goes wrong. easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org (filter list downloads) will not be affected but everything else on the adblockplus.org domain (including EasyList homepage) will be.
Diagnostics 1.2.1 for Adblock Plus released · 2012-01-26 12:54 by Wladimir Palant
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I discovered bug 721319 causing memory leaks in most of my restartless extensions. The new release works around the issue now.
Element Hiding Helper 1.2.1 released · 2012-01-26 12:51 by Wladimir Palant
Install Element Hiding Helper 1.2.1
I discovered bug 721319 causing memory leaks in most of my restartless extensions. The new release works around the issue now.
Element Hiding Helper 1.2 released · 2012-01-25 14:54 by Wladimir Palant
Install Element Hiding Helper 1.2
Changes
- Can be installed/uninstalled/disabled without a browser restart now.
- Added Page Inspector integration (new feature coming up in Firefox 10).
- Stopped warning about missing Adblock Plus installation.
- Fixed: Starting from the Tools Adblock Plus menu is possible now.
- Fixed: Content Security Policy can no longer prevent preview from working on some websites.
Element Hiding Helper 1.2 release candidate available · 2012-01-21 19:26 by Wladimir Palant
Element Hiding Helper 1.2rc.382 is a release candidate for Element Hiding Helper 1.2. After the previous announcement it went through some major architectural simplifications, there shouldn’t be any visible changes however. Also, many translations have been updated already so that the Page Inspector button will be localized.