Adblock Plus and (a little) more
XULRunner in large projects, part 4: Localization pitfalls · 2010-07-17 02:41 by Wladimir Palant
I am back from the Mozilla Summit and somewhat managed to process all the new information I got there. But instead of posting yet another summit summary or more summit photos (what, you didn’t know how great this summit was?) I have a far more boring topic for today: localization of XULRunner-based applications.
Adblock Plus 1.2.1 released · 2010-07-09 20:09 by Wladimir Palant
Changes
- Updated for changes to XPCOM registration in Firefox 4 (bug 568691)
- About dialog: Adapted to add-on manager changes in Firefox 4 (bug 563262)
- Preferences: more reliable formatting of dates
- Fixed: Tabs on Flash and Java display badly on some webpages (forum topic)
- Fixed: Comments would sometimes be interpreted as element hiding rules (forum topic)
Adblock Plus roadmap changes - Firefox Sync and Electrolysis · 2010-07-09 04:26 by Wladimir Palant
I had a chance to talk to some Firefox Sync developers at the Mozilla Summit today. The interesting results:
Adblock Plus Watcher updated for Adblock Plus 1.3a and renamed · 2010-07-08 05:25 by Wladimir Palant
Adblock Plus Watcher has been renamed into Diagnostics for Adblock Plus. Diagnostics 1.1.3a.20100708 restores compatibility with Adblock Plus 1.3a, it isn’t compatible to Adblock Plus 1.2 and below however. There are more changes coming, in particular better management of the dependency on Adblock Plus. But this version is usable again. Other changes:
- New extension icon, no longer reusing the icon from Adblock Plus
- Own About dialog, no longer opening the dialog from Adblock Plus
Brief EasyList status update · 2010-07-06 10:44 by Wladimir Palant
Just wanted to give a brief update on EasyList. People who visit either Adblock Plus forum or EasyList forum occasionally probably noticed already that Ares2 has little time to work on EasyList and Michael is usually speaking on behalf of EasyList authors. This change is now official: Michael is now the main EasyList author. Also, Khrin and MonztA are joining the team.
XULRunner in large projects, part 3: Bugs, bugs, and more bugs · 2010-07-05 22:36 by Wladimir Palant
I already mentioned platform bugs in the previous article but this discussion is worth expanding. Fact is, with the XULRunner code base being rather huge you are bound to find bugs and inconsistencies if you only dig a little deeper. Most of them will be minor though some occasionally turn out mission critical.
XULRunner in large projects, part 2: Why XULRunner isn't like Java · 2010-07-04 12:53 by Wladimir Palant
When talking about runtimes people often expect XULRunner to be something like Java. Sometimes people will also mention .NET — if you are one of them feel free to replace the word “Java” but “.NET” everywhere in this article, it shouldn’t affect the meaning in any way. Fact is, XULRunner is very different from Java and I will try to explain why.
Yes, Adblock Plus is broken in the current Minefield · 2010-07-02 17:04 by Wladimir Palant
I expect lots of reports on this issue so I better publish an explanation before that happens. Yes, starting with Minefield build 20100702 Adblock Plus won’t work any more — neither the stable version nor the development builds. This is due to huge changes in the Gecko platform which were announced a few weeks ago.
XULRunner in large projects, part 1: What is that "XULRunner" thingy, anyway? · 2010-07-02 03:25 by Wladimir Palant
I applied to lead a session on XULRunner in large software projects at the Mozilla Summit. Unfortunately, that proposal was rejected, no talk for me at the summit. Yet there is apparently some interest in the topic, I got messages from two people who won’t be attending the summit asking for slides. I won’t create any slides but I decided to share my thoughts on the topics I wanted to discuss. Having spent the last three years building XULRunner-based applications (first TomTom HOME, now Songbird) I have some experience in this area. Still, this will be necessarily a one-sided view so don’t hesitate to comment.
Adblock Plus 1.0.2 for K-Meleon re-released · 2010-06-23 22:20 by Wladimir Palant
A memory leak was discovered in Adblock Plus 1.0.2 for K-Meleon. This issue has been fixed, the new Adblock Plus 1.0.2 for K-Meleon package no longer exhibits it. If you are using Adblock Plus on K-Meleon it is recommended that you download and install Adblock Plus again.