Adblock Plus and (a little) more

Encouraging innovation · 2007-03-16 23:28 by Wladimir Palant

I had to laugh out loudly on this one. The IEBlog announces the winners of the IE Add-ons Contest. Guess who won the Grand Prize?

K-Meleon 1.1 compatibility issues fixed · 2007-03-16 16:02 by Wladimir Palant

A new Adblock Plus 0.7.2.4+ for K-Meleon development build (2007031614) has been uploaded. Earlier builds would not install properly in K-Meleon 1.1 (currently alpha) because this version is based on Firefox rather than SeaMonkey. These issues should be fixed now and everything should work in both K-Meleon 1.0 and K-Meleon 1.1. Please report any remaining problems.

Blacklists, whitelists, and security · 2007-03-15 04:13 by Wladimir Palant

I had a lengthy discussion with Giorgio Maone (author of the NoScript extension) about what is a security solution and what isn’t. Starting point was my statement that, while being excellent for getting rid of annoyances, neither Adblock Plus nor NoScript are really security solutions. Both have the potential, so why not?

Why "Save Page As HTML, complete" sucks · 2007-03-15 00:20 by Wladimir Palant

I read a forum question from an Opera user who was upset because Opera 9.10 now saves web pages “like IE and Firefox” – meaning saving them with all the included files. His problem was easily solved with a configuration change but it got me thinking. Generally this doesn’t seem to be such a bad idea, it allows you to open a saved web page and it will look exactly the same. So I tried to understand why this user was so upset and why I almost never use this feature myself. It seems there are three things.

Status of "immediate unblocking" feature · 2007-03-07 03:28 by Wladimir Palant

My post about finding a way to unblock items immediately when the filters change was probably too optimistic. I am finished coding the basics but I hit some problems in Gecko.

Getting back to Oslo · 2007-03-01 12:41 by Wladimir Palant

I already left Darmstadt and I am on my way back to Oslo now. The unpleasant surprise is that Germanwings no longer flies to Oslo. I have no idea why they stopped serving this direction in the middle of the season — I couldn’t find it mentioned anywhere, there are just no more flights between Cologne and Oslo (the webpages of both airports confirm this so this isn’t a glitch in Germanwings’ database). That means that I will fly from Düsseldorf with Norwegian which is slightly less convenient. But at least I will spend a few more days in Cologne.

Filterset.G - I call "bullshit" · 2007-02-13 15:01 by Wladimir Palant

I stumbled upon the Filterset.G article in Wikipedia and noticed that G recently edited it adding some “facts”. The most ridiculous one is: “There are approximately 1.5 million users of Filterset.G”. And these statistics are supposed to back it up. From the look of it G simply took the absolutely meaningless number of sites per month.

Element Hiding Helper 1.0.1 released · 2007-02-09 01:52 by Wladimir Palant

Changes

Conflict with find-as-you-type has been fixed
Brazilian Portuguese locale added
Some minor translation issues fixed

Moved blockable items list to the bottom of the window · 2007-02-06 01:06 by Wladimir Palant

Changes

List of blockable items now appears at the bottom of the window instead of being placed in the sidebar, the behavior has been made consistent throughout host applications — with exception of K-Meleon that still supports only the detached state (forum thread)
Fixed: “Open in new tab” and “Flash item’s borders” context menu entries (blockable items list) don’t work in Thunderbird and Songbird
Dropped Songbird 0.1 support, requiring Songbird 0.2 or higher now

Known issues

~~Blockable items: “Open in new tab” and “Add exception rule for item” context menu items should be disabled for element hiding entries~~
~~Blockable items: “Address” line in the tooltip is redundant for element hiding entries~~

Anti-spam protection in the comments · 2007-02-05 12:22 by Wladimir Palant

A few days ago this blog was hit by the first automated comment spam attack since I installed it. I stopped the immediate attack by banning the spammer’s email address, but now I added proper anti-spam protection similar to what is used in the forum to prevent the same thing from happening again. If you notice any issues adding comments please send me a mail.