Adblock Plus and (a little) more
Releases now tagged in CVS · 2008-02-11 21:58 by Wladimir Palant
Apparently, some people want Adblock Plus releases to be clearly marked in CVS. So I tagged all past releases of Adblock Plus and Element Hiding Helper — future releases should be tagged automatically. So, if you want to know what the source code looked like when Adblock Plus 0.7.2 was released, here it is.
Vulnerability or feature? · 2008-02-06 15:50 by Wladimir Palant
pdp over at GNUCITIZEN claims to have found a vulnerability in some common OpenID libraries. And I really tried hard to understand what he means and how it is related to the title of the article. In the end, I got the impression that he simply explains in a lengthy way that anybody could run an OpenID server and use it to log into OpenID-enabled services without having to register. Now isn’t this the whole purpose of OpenID?
Crash in K-Meleon 1.1 fixed · 2008-01-18 02:08 by Wladimir Palant
With the crash in K-Meleon 1.1 fixed, this is a release candidate.
Known issues
K-Meleon 1.1.3 crashes with this build
More robust K-Meleon support · 2008-01-17 12:03 by Wladimir Palant
Large parts of the K-Meleon-specific code have been rewritten to make it easier to maintain and more robust towards future Gecko/K-Meleon changes.
Changes
- Done some major code refactoring
- Added support for K-Meleon 1.5 (currently alpha)
- Dropped support for K-Meleon 1.0
- Status bar icon now reacts to middle-clicks and has a context menu (K-Meleon 1.5 only)
Known issues
- K-Meleon 1.1.3 crashes with this build
- Tooltips on status bar icons are still not supported in K-Meleon
Element Hiding Helper: Matching range of supported applications · 2008-01-11 09:28 by Wladimir Palant
Changes
- Made compatibility info match Adblock Plus: Songbird 0.4, eMusic Remote, Moblin browser supported, Songbird 0.2/0.3 support dropped
eMusic Remote supported as well · 2008-01-11 09:17 by Wladimir Palant
Changes
- Hebrew (he-IL) translation added
- Added support for eMusic Remote 1.0
- Fixed: Links in Adblock Plus dialogs don’t open (Thunderbird only)
Songbird 0.4 now supported · 2008-01-05 00:39 by Wladimir Palant
Changes
- Support for Songbird 0.4 added, now almost everything should work like in Firefox
- Songbird 0.2/0.3 support dropped
Known issues
- Context menu doesn’t always show up in Songbird, consequently not all items can be blocked via context menu (list of blockable items works however)
- Status bar icon doesn’t react to clicks (Songbird bug 6719)
Adblock Plus for MicroB - great, but... · 2007-12-28 00:20 by Wladimir Palant
Today I looked at my logs and noticed lots of unusual referrer spam. For example, I saw people coming to adblockplus.org from wikipedia.org — not a particular article but the main site. Adblock Plus is not that famous yet so I investigated a little.
Keeping an eye on plugins · 2007-12-15 01:00 by Wladimir Palant
It seems that one critical aspect of browsing is finally getting the much deserved attention: plugins. As a regular browser user you are hardly ever reminded of their existence, yet over time I learned that they have a very significant impact on browser’s stability and memory usage. For Adblock Plus, a significant percentage of all reported issues is related to plugins. Part of the problem is the fact that plugins are basically independent programs and the browser has hardly any control over what they do.
What is going on with Internet Explorer? · 2007-12-06 12:43 by Wladimir Palant
So now we know: the next Internet Explorer version will be called Internet Explorer 8. What a surprise. Thanks, Dean, for telling us. What we don’t know is just about everything else about Internet Explorer 8 because the IE team has been maintaining strict radio silence about it. And what we get is a bullshit answer that “the whole world relies on Internet Explorer and we must be very careful about what we say.”