Adblock Plus and (a little) more
Tu programa ha sido publicado · 2006-06-22 18:08 by Wladimir Palant
It is always fun to receive mails in a language you don’t understand, especially when the spam filter automatically sorts them out. Still, it seems that Adblock Plus has been listed on some Spanish site called uptodown.com and got recommended by their editors. Now I only need to know — is this a good thing? Does somebody know the site?
Object tabs running amok · 2006-06-19 22:18 by Wladimir Palant
Blog search sometimes turns up pretty weird hits for “Adblock” — blog entries that have nothing to do with Adblock but contain object tabs similar to those created by Adblock Plus when “Show tabs on Flash and Java” option is on. There is for example this entry that has 15 fake object tabs for the embedded movie.
Adblock security hole closed - but not by Adblock devs [updated] · 2006-06-18 22:46 by Wladimir Palant
A while back I mentioned two security holes I found in Adblock (bug 338114, access is restricted). Both are pretty stupid programming mistakes and can be fixed trivially. Luckily recent security improvements in Firefox prevent one of the bugs from being exploited. The other is wide open however and can potentially allow malicious web sites to gain control over your computer.
Improved handling of objects in Gecko · 2006-06-18 20:33 by Wladimir Palant
Another Gecko bug has been resolved, not quite so recently but still noteworthy: bug 315841. This fixes in particular the bad Java performance Adblock (Plus) users had to endure for years, the browser would always hang until JVM and the applet finished loading.
User stylesheets to apply immediately - fixed · 2006-06-18 20:22 by Wladimir Palant
This is great news: bug 335689 has been fixed. This means that in current trunk nightlies stylesheets registered via the stylesheet service will apply to already loaded documents, not just to those that will be loaded after the change. In particular for Adblock Plus this means that element hiding rules will apply immediately without requiring a page reload.
Putting an icon inside a menulist · 2006-06-15 18:17 by Wladimir Palant
So I wanted the inline editor for Adblock Plus filters to have an icon that cancels it. Shouldn’t be much of a problem? Yes, that’s what I thought. But the editor is an editable menuitem — and a look at chrome://global/content/bindings/menulist.xml shows that you have to use a regular menulist if you want an image there.