Adblock Plus and (a little) more

Adblock Plus 1.3.6 released · 2011-04-04 12:35 by Wladimir Palant

Major changes

“Recommend us on Facebook” button can now be easily hidden (click the cross next to it).
New translations: Esperanto, Upper Sorbian
Improved display of web addresses in Adblock Plus user interface for right-to-left languages (Hebrew, Arabic).
Various stability improvements

Adblock Plus 1.3.6 to be released on Monday · 2011-04-01 11:22 by Wladimir Palant

Adblock Plus 1.3.6 was supposed to be released today. However, Mozilla noticed that Adblock Plus 1.3.6rc.2951 and 1.3.6rc.2952 caused Firefox 4.2a1pre to crash under certain conditions (bug 646839). I solved this problem with Adblock Plus 1.3.6rc.2956 now. Please test this build thoroughly and report any issues, if no problems arise we will have a release on Monday.

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Tags: adblock plus development builds

Adblock Plus 1.3.6 release candidate available · 2011-03-30 17:21 by Wladimir Palant

We will be releasing Adblock Plus 1.3.6 soon, the current development build (Adblock Plus 1.3.6rc.2951) is a release candidate. There has been a number of changes since Adblock Plus 1.3.5:

“Recommend us on Facebook” button can now be easily hidden (a cross button next to it)
Improved display of web addresses in Adblock Plus user interface for right-to-left languages (Hebrew, Arabic).
New translation: Esperanto
Fixed: Some routers are broken by Do Not Track header.
Fixed: Redirect blocking feature has a negative impact on memory management in Firefox.
Fixed: Adblock Plus user interface is broken in Thunderbird and SeaMonkey Mail if a non-default window layout is used.
Fixed: Issue reporter claims “too many filter subscriptions” even if the subscriptions are disabled.
Fixed: Flash is broken in outdated Firefox 3.6.x versions (up to Firefox 3.6.12).
Fixed: Middle-clicking ABP icon has seemingly no effect if Adblock Plus is disabled on the page.

Known issues

Redirect blocking no longer works in Firefox Mobile 4 (bug 646373).

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Do Not Track support in Adblock Plus [Updated] · 2011-03-25 23:22 by Wladimir Palant

Adblock Plus 1.3.5 has been released today. One of the new features is support for the Do Not Track proposal which was previously only available in development builds. Given that this feature is not obvious I want to answer some questions.

Adblock Plus 1.3.5 for K-Meleon released · 2011-03-25 12:47 by Wladimir Palant

Install Adblock Plus 1.3.5 for K-Meleon

Note: This release will work only with K-Meleon 1.6. For older K-Meleon versions please continue using Adblock Plus 1.0.2. There is also a number of known issues.

For changes in this release please see the announcement for the Firefox extension. Future Adblock Plus for K-Meleon versions will released simultaneously with the corresponding Firefox versions and without any special announcement.

Adblock Plus 1.3.5 released · 2011-03-25 12:46 by Wladimir Palant

Install Adblock Plus 1.3.5

Major changes

Added support for Firefox Mobile 4
Added support for Do Not Track proposal
Special icon state for “whitelisted” webpages removed
Various performance improvements

Detailed changelog

Known issues

Adblock Plus 1.3.5 for K-Meleon release candidate available · 2011-03-23 16:34 by Wladimir Palant

The current development build (Adblock Plus for K-Meleon 1.3.5rc.164) is a release candidate. While there are still some unresolved issues, I think that it is more important to bring out Adblock Plus 1.3.5 for K-Meleon when we release the Firefox version. Changes since the previous announcement:

Fixed broken toolbar icon when using K-Meleon on Windows XP
K-Meleon packages now contain all the locales that are available for Adblock Plus
Object tabs are working
No longer crashing in K-Meleon 1.7 (however, not fully functional there either)
Initial size of “Add filter subscription” dialog is set correctly now
Added work-around for K-Meleon bug 1297

Remaining known issues:

K-Meleon crashes if the report link is clicked after submitting the report (K-Meleon bug 1299)
ABP icon state and list of blockable items do not update correctly if a blank tab is open
Size of the “Add filter subscription” dialog changes incorrectly when switching to “Add a different subscription” and back (K-Meleon bug 1298)
Blockable items window cannot be closed with hotkeys (Esc or Ctrl+Shift+V)
Preferences dialog: “Show in toolbar” option should be hidden

Installation:
https://adblockplus.org/devbuilds/adblockpluskmeleon/

Firefox 4 is there! · 2011-03-22 19:05 by Wladimir Palant

And since there are not enough blog posts about Firefox 4 on Planet, I am going to remind you that Firefox 4 is available now and you should go get it while it is hot. Seriously, do it. Lots of work went into this release and Firefox 4 is a huge step forward.

Adblock Plus 1.3.5 release candidate available · 2011-03-19 14:59 by Wladimir Palant

The current development build (Adblock Plus 1.3.5rc.2902) is a release candidate for Adblock Plus 1.3.5. We are already in string freeze, the translators are in the process of updating the translations. There is a slight chance that Firefox Sync support will still be added, other than that the remaining changes should be minor (maybe a few changes to the K-Meleon support so that we can release this version for K-Meleon as well).

The area that needs most testing is still Firefox Mobile 4.0 support, please give it a try. Changes since the previous announcement:

Added a “Recommend us on Facebook” button as an experiment
Disallowed issue reports with more than 5 filter subscriptions

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Tags: adblock plus development builds

The plan for Adblock Plus 1.3.5 · 2011-03-19 14:53 by Wladimir Palant

The development build users noticed already — Adblock Plus 1.3.5 release is coming close, the current development build is already designated as a “release candidate”. With the release of Firefox 4 (both desktop and mobile) I thought that we need to release soon as well. One issue that people are complaining is the shortcut key for Adblock Plus preferences — in Firefox 4 it conflicts with the Panorama shortcut key. More important however is the support for Firefox Mobile 4.0 (Fennec). Thanks to some great help from Fabrice Desré I was able to add support in a very short time and we need to release it now. So yesterday I started string freeze for Adblock Plus 1.3.5, the plan is to release on March 25th.

Update (2011-03-22): I am getting close to a working Firefox Sync support. However, I am now certain that landing it for Adblock Plus 1.3.5 will be too risky. Instead these changes should land shortly after Adblock Plus 1.3.5 and will be available in the development builds. We can do one more release once things look stable.