Adblock Plus and (a little) more

Adblock Plus for Google Chrome™ (Beta) 1.0.26 released · 2011-01-20 08:51 by Wladimir Palant

Changes

Fixed: High memory usage and performance impact on very dynamic websites (particularly Facebook games, forum topic)
Fixed: Blocked stylesheets aren’t being disabled
Worked around WebKit bug 45586 on nubert.de (forum topic)
Fixed: Click-to-hide might add duplicate filters

Note: The change for dynamic sites might mean that you will see ads again on pages that add content dynamically (particularly Google Reader). We were unable to find any scenario where this happens, if you see one however please report it in the forum.

Adblock Plus for K-Meleon development builds are available again · 2011-01-18 17:50 by Wladimir Palant

Adblock Plus for K-Meleon development builds are now available again (for K-Meleon 1.6 only). Unlike for the other development builds, the update process here is manual — both on my side (because a Linux server cannot compile Windows code) and on user’s side (because K-Meleon doesn’t have an extension installation mechanism). So, grab a build, install it by unpacking into the K-Meleon application directory and subscribe to the RSS feed because that’s the only way for you to get notified about important changes.

These development builds are very much work in progress, many parts aren’t working yet. Here are the known issues:

List of blockable items doesn’t show anything
ABP icon state doesn’t always update properly (particularly on tab changes and when working with multiple windows)
Issue reporter gets stuck collecting data
About dialog won’t load
Window sizes aren’t persisted properly
“Tabs on Flash and Java” feature doesn’t work
Left-click and middle-click on the icons won’t work
Search in Preferences window is only partially working (this is K-Meleon bug 1237)

Changes to development builds · 2011-01-08 13:03 by Wladimir Palant

Now that we need to produce development builds for Chrome the old Perl script generating development builds was getting somewhat too inflexible. It has been rewritten in Python and now I finished hooking up the new script. While it is still not generating Chrome builds (something to add early next week), there are already some changes for Firefox builds.

Status update: 2011-01-07 · 2011-01-07 19:15 by Wladimir Palant

Worked 4.5 days on Adblock Plus this week.

Done

Investigated issues with Flash objects staying hidden in Chrome, filed Chrome issue 68518, also implemented a work-around
Investigated some element hiding rules breaking Gmail in Chrome, filed Chrome issue 68705
Released Adblock Plus for Chrome 1.0.25
Investigated issues disabling filters from list of blockable items in Firefox 3.6 — caused by wrongly applied JavaScript wrappers, solution still outstanding
Investigated memory leak visible in my main profile again — with limited success
Finished up new script to create development builds — tested and checked into sitescripts repository, needs to be hooked up now

How does one approach an "unusual" memory leak? · 2011-01-06 18:05 by Wladimir Palant

Firefox memory usage used to be very stable for me, it reached 200 MB and stayed there. However, some time ago this changed and now I see memory usage close to 1 GB after using Firefox for a few days. This only seems to affect my main Firefox profile which doesn’t see too many changes. So I can name the primary suspects: a minor Firefox release or Adblock Plus 1.3. And I clearly don’t like seeing my extension on the suspects list, so I did everything I could to ensure that it isn’t leaking memory. However, neither Leak Monitor, nor leak gauge, nor direct code inspection did bring up anything suspicious.

Adblock Plus for Google Chrome™ (Beta) 1.0.25 released · 2011-01-05 12:36 by Wladimir Palant

Changes

Worked around WebKit bug 45586 on redfin.com
Worked around Chrome bug 68518 (Flash is hidden on some sites until the browser window is resized)
Better handling of YouTube’s in-video ads
Fixed: Elements selected using “easy create filter” weren’t removed immediately, only after reloading the page
Added Simplified Chinese translation

Adblock Plus 1.3.3 released · 2011-01-05 10:45 by Wladimir Palant

This is a late release announcement for Adblock Plus 1.3.3.

Changes

Fixed Adblock Plus 1.3.2 regression: Subscription downloads fail if the proxy server requires authentication

Status update: 2010-12-23 · 2010-12-24 20:25 by Wladimir Palant

Worked 4 days on Adblock Plus this week.

Done

Released Adblock Plus for Google Chrome 1.0.22, 1.0.23, 1.0.24
Investigated numerous issues reported after release, we should have an overview of what needs fixing now
Added support for X-Do-Not-Track header in Adblock Plus nightlies
Released Adblock Plus 1.3.3

Adblock Plus for Google Chrome™ (Beta) 1.0.24 released · 2010-12-22 20:07 by Wladimir Palant

Changes

Worked around WebKit bug 45586 on tuenti.com and nwjv.de
Fixed: pages didn’t finish loading on some websites

Adblock Plus for Google Chrome™ (Beta) 1.0.23 released · 2010-12-21 17:34 by Wladimir Palant

Changes

Fixed incorrect handling of essentially empty filters (present in some filter subscriptions), was breaking extension functionality for some users