Adblock Plus and (a little) more

Adblock Plus for Google Chrome™ (Beta) 1.0.24 released · 2010-12-22 20:07 by Wladimir Palant

Changes

Worked around WebKit bug 45586 on tuenti.com and nwjv.de
Fixed: pages didn’t finish loading on some websites

Adblock Plus for Google Chrome™ (Beta) 1.0.23 released · 2010-12-21 17:34 by Wladimir Palant

Changes

Fixed incorrect handling of essentially empty filters (present in some filter subscriptions), was breaking extension functionality for some users

Adblock Plus for Google Chrome™ (Beta) 1.0.22 released · 2010-12-20 22:48 by Wladimir Palant

Changes

First release under the new name and with Adblock Plus branding
Updated code that is shared with Adblock Plus for Firefox
XHTML documents are now being processed correctly
Updated list of suggested filter subscriptions
Date/time display (time of last update) now considers date format selected in the user’s operating system
A bunch of inconsistencies fixed

First Adblock Plus for Chrome development build · 2010-12-18 18:34 by Wladimir Palant

Under https://adblockplus.org/devbuilds/adblockpluschrome/adblockpluschrome-1.0.21.20101218.crx you can install the first Adblock Plus for Chrome development build. Please note that it isn’t very different from AdThwart yet, only a bunch of smaller changes.

Adblock Plus for Google Chrome to be released soon · 2010-12-15 18:52 by Wladimir Palant

For a while my official position on Adblock Plus for non-Gecko browsers read like this:

Forget it, I am not writing Adblock Plus from scratch just to support your favorite browser (be it Chrome or Safari or Opera or Internet Explorer). And even if somebody gives me the code — I am not going to maintain two unrelated projects. This asks for an independent project and in fact, there are already independent projects to implement ad blocking for all of these browsers.

As you can read from this, the frequent requests to port Adblock Plus to <insert your favorite browser here> got quite annoying. Still, it is time to change this position, we are starting to look into ways to cover other browsers than Firefox and SeaMonkey. And we are starting with Google Chrome, a beta version of Adblock Plus for Google Chrome is scheduled to be released soon. I’ll try to give answers to some questions that you are certainly urging to ask.