Adblock Plus and (a little) more
Great Java news · 2008-02-25 12:56 by Wladimir Palant
It appears that Sun released a beta version of their new Java plugin, much earlier than I expected. The important thing is: this plugin no longer relies on the ancient OJI code in Mozilla’s codebase to implement things like LiveConnect (integration between JavaScript and Java applets). Instead, the new plugin uses the same scripting interfaces as all other plugins as well. This will reduce the number of issues significantly — nobody really felt responsible for the complex OJI code lately, and Adblock Plus seemed to trigger lots of issues. I guess that OJI will still stay around at least in Firefox 3 but it will no longer be used, and maybe in Firefox 4 it will be removed entirely.
Statistics, statistics, statistics · 2008-02-19 12:39 by Wladimir Palant
Of course, we all knew that Addons.Mozilla.Org was sitting on a huge pile of statistically usable data. But honestly, I never really believed we would ever see a significant amount of it. Do you remember that server that would pull publicly accessible extension download counts from AMOv2 every day and display the data in graphs? I missed that one a lot now that the download counts are considered private.
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.