Adblock Plus and (a little) more

Adblock Plus 1.6 for Internet Explorer released · 2017-01-03 18:06 by Oleksandr Paraska

We are happy to announce the release of Adblock Plus 1.6 for Internet Explorer. This update brings a bunch of features, all of which you were able to try first in our latest development build.

As we have already pointed out in the development build announcement we are switching to CSS injection for element hiding, instead of a custom DOM traverser. This change was implemented for a more powerful element hiding.

The new way of element hiding through CSS injection will work only on IE10+. But since we support IE8+ we have also made improvements to the traverser itself and fixed other bugs, which should make the general ad blocking experience more robust.

We have also resolved a case where ABP for Internet Explorer would crash, so a more stable experience is also to be expected. You can see the full list of changes included in the release here.

Adblock Plus 1.5 for IE released · 2015-09-22 20:43 by Oleksandr Paraska

We are happy to announce a release an updated version of Adblock Plus for Internet Explorer.

This release includes improvements for the large scale deployments. Here is the list of changes since the last release:

Adblock Plus for Internet Explorer 1.5 release candidate available · 2015-09-09 15:35 by Oleksandr Paraska

We are planning to release a new version of Adblock Plus for Internet Explorer next Tuesday, September 15th, 2015. The release candidate is available here.

This release includes improvements for the large scale deployments. Here is the list of changes since the last release:

Adblock Plus for Internet Explorer with support for administrator install · 2015-07-08 18:09 by Oleksandr Paraska

Going in line with our Chrome and Firefox versions of Adblock Plus, it is now possible to suppress the first run page, and disable the automatic updates in Adblock Plus for Internet Explorer. This feature is now available in the latest devbuild 1.4.796

Adblock Plus 1.4 for IE released · 2015-02-26 16:34 by Oleksandr Paraska

We are updating Adblock Plus for IE with version 1.4.

Here is a list of all improvements since version 1.3.

New in this release is the addition of the installer for Active Directory installs, which we really hope network administrators would appreciate.

Also, this version is the first version that will perform queries for notifications like all other ABP versions.

Adblock Plus for Internet Explorer 1.4 release candidate available · 2015-02-19 09:29 by Oleksandr Paraska

We would like to announce that the current devbuild 1.3.763 is going to be the basis for the release of Adblock Plus for Internet Explorer 1.4, which we are planning to release on Wednesday the 25th of February.

Here is a list of all improvements since version 1.3.

New in this release is the addition of the installer for Active Directory installs, which we really hope network administrators would appreciate.

Also, this version is the first version that will perform queries for notifications like all other ABP versions.

ABP for IE Installer for Active Directory · 2015-01-16 10:29 by Oleksandr Paraska

We have been contacted quite a few times by admins, willing to deploy ABP on the whole network, not just on a single machine. On Windows that is usually achieved through Active Directory and Group Policy Objects. Since our usual installer MSIs have language transforms embedded, they don’t work in that environment. This is why we are starting development builds of special installers, built without language transforms to allow for large scale deployments.

Adblock Plus 1.3 for IE released · 2014-12-15 16:43 by Oleksandr Paraska

Install Adblock Plus 1.3 for Internet Explorer

Since our last release for Internet Explorer we were very much focused on improving quality of ad blocking and hiding. Hence version 1.3 fixes a lot of issues where ABP for IE either incorrectly blocked a request, or falsely allowed the request through, when it shouldn’t have. We are quite happy with the result, and hope you’ll notice the improvement as well.

If you are interested in a bit more details, here is the list of changes that are included in Adblock Plus 1.3 for Internet Explorer

Changes

General blocking improvements (issue 1265):
- Improved detection of mime types
- Added support for XMLHttpRequests
- Added support for requests from Flash
- Improved detection of a referrer of a request.
Fix element hiding on some sites (issue 1148)
Fix incorrect blocking of video content on some sites (issue 1231)
Block video ads where they weren’t blocked before (issue 1500)
Fix “Navigation canceled” messages if IFRAME is blocked (issue 1264)
Fix version string in Add/Remove programs (issue 1222)
Changes in the First Run Page (issue 1230, issue 1356)

Adblock Plus 1.3 for Internet Explorer Release Candidate · 2014-12-05 22:06 by Oleksandr Paraska

UPD 2014-12-12:
We have decided it would be best to release the version 1.3 on Tuesday, December 16th.

Changes

You can find all the changes for this milestone here

General blocking improvements (issue #1265):
- Improved detection of mime types
- Added support for XMLHttpRequests
- Added support for requests from Flash
- Improved detection of a referrer of a request.
Fix element hiding on some sites (issue #1148)
Fix incorrect blocking of video content on some sites (issue #1231)
Block video ads where they weren’t blocked before (issue #1500)
Fix “Navigation canceled” messages if IFRAME is blocked (issue #1264)
Fix version string in Add/Remove programs (issue #1222)
Changes in the First Run Page (issue #1230, issue #1356)

We have been releasing devbuilds quite regularly, and feel like a lot of issues have been ironed out now. Still, if you do have any problems, please don’t hesitate to report them to us.

To devbuilds page

Adblock Plus 1.2 for Internet Explorer released · 2014-08-13 12:14 by Oleksandr Paraska

Install Adblock Plus 1.2 for Internet Explorer

It has been a long while since our previous release for Internet Explorer. We have been busy tweaking and tuning and fixing different aspects of the Internet Explorer extension for this release. There were quite a few bumps along the way which caused delays. To speedup the development we’ve made a decision to drop support for IE6 and IE7. So currently IE versions 8 to 11 are supported. In case of IE6 and IE7 Adblock Plus for Internet Explorer should still run, with minor glitches though which we are not planning to fix. Luckily, after a bunch of devbuilds we are now ready for a public release.

In this release we’ve resolved a wide range of issues. While you can look up the full list of issued fixed in our issue tracker, the most important changes are:

Full support of Enhanced Protected Mode
Acceptable Ads are now supported
Improved installer. Made it multilingual. And it will now be able to detect if IE is opened and close if needed.
Fixed incorrect blocking of videos on a wide range of websites
Fixed a lot of stability issues
Fixed incorrect blocking of non-ad content
ABP should not be triggering “Only secure content is displayed” warning message anymore

It is worth mentioning that there are also a few known issues we still need to tackle, most important being “ads on Google Search sometimes aren’t hidden”. This issue can be reproduced no matter whether Acceptable Ads are enabled or disabled, so it may cause some confusion which is why we are planning to fix it ASAP (in the next few weeks).