Adblock Plus and (a little) more

Adblock Plus 3.9.1 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera · 2020-07-14 15:53 by Thomas Greiner

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This release fixes an issue that caused Adblock Plus to block page loads for users that have certain non-recommended filter lists installed (core#230).

Adblock Plus 3.9 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera · 2020-06-30 21:00 by Thomas Greiner

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This release improves on existing features that help inform users about new changes to the extension and about problems it detects. It also includes various improvements for filter authors.

User interface changes

New updates page informing users about latest changes via a notification in the popup (ui#562).
New data corruption page informing users about data corruption via a notification in the popup instead of opening the first-run page (ui#589).
New notification icon design (ui#162, ui#594).
Added ability to share number of blocked ads on social media (ui#485).
Improved design of confirmation dialog that is shown when clicking on a link to add a filter list (ui#595).
Reverted font optimizations that were released in Adblock Plus 3.7 (ui#565).
Fixed: Privacy policy link was missing from settings page (ui#724).

Filter changes

Snippet changes
- Added profile snippet (core#94).
- Added hide-if-matches-xpath snippet (core#178).
- Avoid interference between snippets (core#186).
- Added hide-if-labelled-by snippet (core#189).
- Fixed: Snippets fail when using abort-* snippets (core#221).
- Added json-prune snippet (core#225).
Added element hiding debug mode (core#170, webext#172).
Note: For now, this mode can only be enabled via the browser console (see instructions).
Long filters in developer tools panel are now displayed in a tooltip (ui#301).

Firefox-specific changes

Fixed: Blocked counter regularly resets itself for pinned tabs (webext#190).
Fixed: Black border was shown around icon popup (ui#731).

Adblock Plus 3.8.4 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera · 2020-04-03 18:47 by Hubert Figuière

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This release improves the snippet hide-if-contains-visible-text to also handle pseudo elements when looking for the text content (core#172).

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Adblock Plus 3.8.3 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera · 2020-03-31 19:00 by Thomas Greiner

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This release adds support for opening noteworthy notifications in a new tab (core#162, webex#162) that would otherwise go unnoticed. Such notifications will not be shown to users on large scale deployments of Adblock Plus (webext#171).

It also removes warning messages that are shown in the browser’s developer tools when installing the extension (webext#174) and when visiting websites (webext#173).

Adblock Plus 3.8 for Chrome, Firefox and Microsoft Edge · 2020-02-19 14:00 by Thomas Greiner

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This release introduces the ability to disable Adblock Plus on individual web pages which used to only be possible to do across entire websites. It also makes various improvements for snippet filters.

User interface changes

Icon popup: Added ability to whitelist individual pages (ui#499).
Settings page
- Extract domain from URL when whitelisting a website (ui#247).
- Prevent users from adding filter lists from unsupported URLs (ui#414, ui#450).
- Refreshed design (ui#483).
Issue reporter: Added link for reporting other issues (ui#424).
Removed notification for recommending filter list that hides offending messages (webext#99, core#97).
Updated extension description (ui#597).
Fixed: Don’t focus first-run page when shown due to data corruption (webext#110).
Fixed: Keep number of blocked requests in icon popup updated while it’s open (ui#634, webext#95).

Filter changes

Snippet changes
- Added TensorFlow.js and a first ML-based snippet ml-hide-if-graph-matches (core#25, core#98, webext#104).
- Provided a debug flag to any snippet (core#71).
- Added relevant debugging info to abort-on-property-read/write (core#101).
- Fixed: Avoid global scope conflicts and rewrites (core#86).

Adblock Plus 3.7 for Chrome, Firefox and Opera · 2019-10-22 20:00 by Andrea Giammarchi

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This release includes various improvements for the settings page and the extension popup. It also drops support for legacy browsers such as Chrome 51 or Opera 38 and below, plus it fixes notifications for Opera browser.

Overall improvements

Settings page
- Improved filters list management (ui#438).
- It is now possible to rate our extension (ui#370).
- Added link to help center (ui#276).
- Users can now provide feedback to us on Acceptable Ads when they opt-out (ui#375).
- Added button to the settings page to select from a list of recommended filter lists (ui#129).
Popup
- Enabling/disabling ad blocking on a website can now be undone without having to close the icon popup or refresh the page (ui#3).
- Notifications can now bring you directly to the settings page (webext#34).
Issue reporter
- Added option for attaching further information to issue reports (ui#152).
Other improvements
- Added new page to show new users what else they can do with Adblock Plus (ui#378).
- Optimized existing font and added fonts for Arabic and Thai languages (ui#115).

Other changes

Dropped support for Chrome 51 (respectively Opera 38) and below (webext#56, webext#81).

Opera-only changes

Fixed: Links in notifications did not work on Opera (webext#60).

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Adblock Plus 3.6.3 for Chrome, Firefox and Opera · 2019-08-22 15:30 by Hubert Figuière

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Changes

Improved performance of snippet hide-if-contains-image-hash (core#55, core#62).

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Adblock Plus 3.6.2 for Chrome, Firefox and Opera · 2019-08-09 01:00 by Hubert Figuière

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Changes

Added the snippet hide-if-contains-image-hash (issue 7187).
Fixed: The snippet abort-on-property-read couldn’t be used on DOM APIs (core#41).

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Adblock Plus 3.6.1 for Chrome, Firefox and Opera · 2019-08-02 08:30 by Hubert Figuière

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Changes

Improved performance of the hide-if-contains-visible-text snippet (core#32).
Fixed: The ABP Anti-circumvention filter list was not loaded properly (core#45).

Adblock Plus 3.6 for Chrome, Firefox and Opera · 2019-07-30 20:00 by Thomas Greiner

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This release includes various user interface improvements around managing custom filters, such as the ability to disable individual filters, as well as further performance and stability improvements. It also removes support for the $collapse and $object-subrequest filter options as well as for filter lists that are served over unencrypted HTTP.

User interface changes

Settings page
- Replaced text area with table for managing custom filters (ui#15, ui#174).
- Removed unnecessary remove option from filter list menu (ui#238).
- Sort whitelisted websites alphabetically (ui#240).
- Fixed: Copyright year in “About Adblock Plus” dialog refers to wrong year (ui#195).
- Fixed: Website menu item was missing for newly added filter lists (ui#237).
- Fixed: Link to Adblock Plus page on Weibo not shown for Chinese users (ui#412).
Developer tools panel
- Open rewritten URLs in Resources panel (ui#192).
- Log element hiding exception rules (webext#4, issue 6428).
- Added translations (ui#77).
Issue reporter
- Clarified inclusion of screenshot in issue reports for visually impaired users (ui#83).
- Fixed: Button disabled for closing page after sending the issue report (ui#245).
First-run page: Made links more distinct from regular text (ui#250).
Updated extension description (ui#258).

Filter changes

Snippet changes
- Allow wrapping of function properties in abort-on-property-* snippets (issue 7419).
- Added hide-if-contains-visible-text snippet (issue 7450).
- Fixed: Filter is being ignored on subsequent filter that uses abort-current-inline-script snippet (issue 7373).
- Fixed: strip-fetch-query-parameter snippet did not work in older browsers (issue 7407).
Removed support for $collapse filter option (core#1).
Removed support for $object-subrequest filter option (core#6).
Added blank-mp4 resource for internal redirects (issue 7440).
Fixed: :-abp-properties() does not work when tag name is specified (issue 7400).
Fixed: :-abp-properties() does not work when selector in document ends in a combinator (issue 7428).

Other changes

Reject downloads over unencrypted HTTP (core#5).

Firefox-only changes

Fixed: Position of rectangles drawn on screenshot in issue reporter was offset (ui#251).