Adblock Plus and (a little) more
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.”
Spam, Spam, Spam, lovely Spam · 2007-11-28 03:08 by Wladimir Palant
Today’s spammers always find interesting questions to ask:
Are you currently accepting advertising on your website adblockplus.org?
Predictable whitelists strike again · 2007-11-05 17:18 by Wladimir Palant
A little more than half a year ago I wrote an article on how security solutions using whitelists are better than those using blacklists. At the same time I noted that even using whitelists is not always enough — for example when your whitelist is predictable and the attacker can make sure the whitelisting rule applies to him. NoScript extension was the example I used, and its author reacted by adding “XSS protection” assuming that this would invalidate my claims.
Some Minefield issues fixed · 2007-10-03 20:06 by Wladimir Palant
Changes
- Fixed filter editing issues caused by landing of bug 398135 (Note: Bug 398135 is not yet fixed, filter editing will only work again once this is done)
- Fixed: input focus not put back to the filter list after editing a list (Minefield only)
- Fixed: The entry “No blockable items on current page” in the list of filter suggestions should not be selectable
Interview responses - a summary · 2007-09-29 01:24 by Wladimir Palant
This month Adblock Plus got some great publicity. Regardless of how this sudden interest for a niche product started and regardless of what all these articles actually said — this is very good because it makes Adblock Plus more widely known. But I spent quite some time answering interview questions and most of the time these answers didn’t get anywhere. In quite a few cases I had a strong suspicion that the reporter already knew what he was going to write before asking questions. He would then throw away any answer that didn’t fit into his scheme. I would hate to see all this time wasted, so I want to publish a summary of all that I’ve written in email answers over the month (unfortunately, I don’t have recordings of phone interviews).
Added support for Moblin browser · 2007-09-27 12:18 by Wladimir Palant
Changes
- Support for Moblin browser added — untested
Adblock Plus 0.7.5.3 released · 2007-09-24 13:54 by Wladimir Palant
Changes
This is a minor release fixing an error message that appeared on some installations.
Adblock Plus 0.7.5.2 released · 2007-09-21 13:27 by Wladimir Palant
Changes
This is a minor release closing two ways for web sites to detect Adblock Plus.
IMPORTANT: Following extensions need to be updated to restore compatibility: Element Hiding Helper, Adblock Plus Filter Uploader, Adblock Filterset.G Updater, backword
Another detection possibility closed · 2007-09-19 20:42 by Wladimir Palant
This is a release candidate for Adblock Plus 0.7.5.2 (to be released tomorrow).
Changes
- Fixed: Should not use predictable CSS classes (bug 17561)