Adblock Plus and (a little) more
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)
Element Hiding Helper 1.0.2 released · 2007-09-18 00:21 by Wladimir Palant
Changes
- Locales added: Danish, British English, Estonian, Albanian
- Made compatible with future Adblock Plus 0.7.5.2 release
- Conflicts with Find As You Type resolved (this time hopefully all of them)
- Installation issue fixed: Element Hiding Helper sometimes wouldn’t properly register in the user interface of Adblock Plus
Adblock Plus is most used extension · 2007-09-17 13:13 by Wladimir Palant
Justing Scott (aka fligtar, one of addons.mozilla.org developers) published interesting numbers in his blog. In addition to the (inherently unreliable) download numbers for extensions we now also have the numbers of active users to compare. Actually, they are not really user numbers, but at least Mozilla knows how often it received update requests for which extensions — and that’s good enough to compare relative usage.