Adblock Plus and (a little) more

Adblock Plus 2.6.10 for Firefox released · 2015-07-28 15:05 by Wladimir Palant

This is a quality and stability release, with the focus being compatibility with upcoming Firefox versions. Most of the changes are under the hood, only the visible changes are listed:

suppress_first_run_page preference introduced by previous release can now be preconfigured by machine administrators via setting extensions.adblockplus.preconfigured.suppress_first_run_page Firefox preference (issue 2439).
Issue reporter
- Made sure there is always enough space to display report data (issue 344).
- No longer intercepting right-clicks on the resulting report link, only left- and middle-clicks result in the report being opened (issue 701).
Subscription links
- Implemented an alternative format that is easier to use in forums or emails: https://subscribe.adblockplus.org/?location=foo instead of abp:subscribe?location=foo (issue 2211).
- Fixed subscription links in multi-process Firefox (issue 1730)
Notifications
- Added global opt-out for notifications (issue 2192 and issue 2193).
- Notifications are shown immediately after download rather than waiting for a browser restart (issue 2419).
Removed inconsistent behavior (breaks backwards compatibility): exception rules starting with http:// or https:// no longer imply $document option (issue 2503).
Reduced the initial delay for filter lists and notification updates after browser startup (issue 284 and issue 2659).
First-run page: Fixed social buttons being broken starting with Firefox 38 (issue 2710).

Better support for upcoming Firefox versions · 2015-07-22 11:33 by Wladimir Palant

The Adblock Plus 2.6.9.3963 development build is a release candidate, Adblock Plus 2.6.10 for Firefox will be released next Tuesday is everything goes well. We implemented a bunch of improvements and fixed several issues affecting newer Firefox versions (especially multi-process Firefox). The most important changes are:

Fixed a syntax error breaking Adblock Plus in Firefox 41 and above (bug 1176702)
Implemented https://subscribe.adblockplus.org/?location=http://example.com/ as an alternative to abp:subscribe?location=http://example.com/ links (issue 2211).
Fixed subscribe links in multi-process Firefox (issue 1730).
Made the comment page of the issue reporter more compact so that the report data field has more space (issue 344).
Fixed share dialog on the first-run page, it was broken starting with Firefox 38 (issue 2710).

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Changing roles · 2015-06-11 11:28 by Wladimir Palant

I’ve been the CTO of Eyeo since we founded it four years ago to put the Adblock Plus project on a more solid basis. This made sense, after all I created the Adblock Plus project and had been solely responsible for all things technical for five years. However, as the development team has been growing it became obvious that I’m not the best person to do this job. So, as of now I’m just a developer on the team and the new CTO is my colleague Felix Dahlke (fhd). This sounds like a bigger change than it really is, so I’ll try to answer all questions in advance.

Suppressing the first run page in Firefox · 2015-05-05 11:30 by Felix Dahlke

It is now possible to suppress the first run page in Adblock Plus for Firefox as well – with the current development build 2.6.9.3935, and the upcoming 2.6.10 release.

You can do this by setting the extensions.adblockplus.preconfigured.suppress_first_run_page pref to true, for example from autoconfig.js.

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Adblock Plus 2.6.9 for Firefox released · 2015-03-31 23:56 by Wladimir Palant

Install Adblock Plus 2.6.9 for Firefox

This is another quality and stability release:

Slightly optimized performance, domain-specific filters will no longer affect overall performance (issue 2177).
Added extensions.adblockplus.suppress_first_run_page preference to allow administrators disable the first-run page if Adblock Plus is installed globally (issue 206). Note that additional changes are required to make this preference usable.
Fixed: $elemhide filter option doesn’t consider website signatures correctly (issue 2151).

Adblock Plus 2.6.8 for Firefox released · 2015-03-10 21:00 by Wladimir Palant

Install Adblock Plus 2.6.8 for Firefox

This release features the improved icon and logo that are already being used in Chrome, Opera and Safari (issue 1534, issue 2053, issue 2072). It also fixes an issue with the search functionality in the Filter Preferences affecting Firefox 36 and above (issue 2041).

Adblock Plus integrated into Maxthon browser · 2015-02-11 09:43 by Job Plas

Adblock Plus and Maxthon committed to a partnership where Adblock Plus has been integrated as a default feature in the popular Maxthon Cloud Browser.

Adblock Plus 2.6.7 for Firefox released · 2015-01-14 22:03 by Wladimir Palant

Install Adblock Plus 2.6.7 for Firefox

Note that this release removes the “Hide placeholders of blocked elements” option from the user interface. The underlying functionality is still available via a hidden preference, as explained in the original announcement.

Changes

Removed ‘Hide placeholders of blocked elements’ option from the user interface (issue 1670).
Fixed: First-run page broken in Firefox nightlies if E10S is enabled (issue 1663, issue 1706).
Fixed first-run page layout for right-to-left languages (issue 1668).
Fixed: “Adblock Warning Removal List” is being displayed as the selected list on Firefox Mobile (issue 1712).
Fixed: “Disable on site” doesn’t always show up on Firefox Mobile (issue 1713).

First-run page rearchitecturing complete · 2015-01-08 13:39 by Wladimir Palant

Ever since the Firefox nightly builds switched on E10S (multi-process) the Adblock Plus first-run page was broken. We noticed the issue mid-December last year and were working on a solution since then. The result was a completely different backend for the first-run page, one that will hopefully be used for the other pieces of the user interface as well soon (no urgency there however). The new first-run page in Adblock Plus 2.6.6.3884 for Firefox and Adblock Plus 1.8.9.1299 for Chrome, Opera and Safari should hopefully look and behave exactly the same as the old one. It should however be functional in the current Firefox nightlies with E10S switched on and perform better in Safari.

If you want to test the first-run page without reinstalling, you can copy chrome://adblockplus/content/ui/firstRun.html into the address bar in Firefox or chrome-extension://ldcecbkkoecffmfljeihcmifjjdoepkn/firstRun.html in Chrome and Opera.

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Removed "Hide placeholders of blocked elements" option · 2014-12-11 15:49 by Sebastian Noack

Disabling the “Hide placeholders of blocked elements” option in the menu (Firefox) or in the “General” section of the options page (Chrome, Opera, Safari) had the effect that placeholders were shown for elements which didn’t load because of Adblock Plus. The purpose of this feature was to see when something was blocked on a webpage. However, the results couldn’t be relied on because it didn’t have any effect on hidden or generally invisible elements. Also, in Chrome, Opera and Safari there is now the icon badge indicating the number of blocked requests (coming to Firefox as well soon). Therefore, we decided to remove the option from the user interface.