Adblock Plus and (a little) more
Adblock Plus 2.2.1 released · 2012-11-23 10:56 by Wladimir Palant
Changes
- Fixed issue affecting loading of filters in old Firefox version (including Firefox 10).
- Fixed wrong apostrophe encoding in translations (especially Italian).
Adblock Plus 2.2 released · 2012-11-21 17:58 by Wladimir Palant
The main change in this release is the new typo correction feature (not enabled by default). Other changes:
- License change: Source code license for Adblock Plus is now GNU General Public License version 3.0 instead of Mozilla Public License version 2.0
- Fixed: Firefox Sync support broken in Firefox 19.
- Fixed: Text in Filter Preferences window doesn’t always adapt if the window is maximized (forum topic).
- Fixed: Progress bar in issue reporter should go from right to left for right-to-left languages.
- Removed use of E4X by the issue reporter (E4X is being deprecated by Mozilla).
Typo correction feature in Adblock Plus · 2012-11-21 16:40 by Wladimir Palant
Lots of Adblock Plus users were complaining about unintentionally landing on web pages that tried to use their mistake by either showing ads to them or even by installing malware. We heard you and thought up a way to fix that. A few months ago we took over the development of the URL Fixer extension and made some substantial improvements. Now this functionality is ready for prime time and has been added to Adblock Plus 2.2.
Translating Adblock Plus: Dumping Babelzilla for Crowdin · 2012-11-09 13:40 by Wladimir Palant
The Adblock Plus project has been using Babelzilla for translations for more than six years. Yet, time has come to change that. Two days ago I moved the translations for all my extensions from Babelzilla to Crowdin, meaning Adblock Plus, Element Hiding Helper and JavaScript Deobfuscator. This was preceded by a lengthy pilot phase with the Customizations for Adblock Plus extension and recently also Adblock Plus for Chrome.
Removing Do-Not-Track support from Adblock Plus · 2012-10-27 01:10 by Wladimir Palant
I still believe that the Do-Not-Track proposal is the most promising idea to let users opt out of tracking, it offers some value even to the people using Adblock Plus with the EasyPrivacy filter list. The proposal gained a lot of traction already and will continue to gain speed. Adblock Plus was one of the first implementors, and yet I decided that this feature is no longer worth keeping.
Adblock Plus 2.1.2 released · 2012-07-20 00:19 by Wladimir Palant
Changes
- Some startup time and memory use improvements
Why you should make your next add-on restartless · 2012-07-12 14:18 by Wladimir Palant
Note: This article is not about extensions based on the Add-on SDK (Jetpack). You don’t have to use the SDK to create a restartless extension. Just wanted to point this out explicitly to avoid confusion.
An extension that will install without requiring a Firefox restart? This was a nightmare to develop not too long ago. Fortunately, things changed and the last showstopper bug was fixed in Firefox 8. Effort to create a restartless (or bootstrapped as it is called officially) extension is acceptable now. In fact, I have converted all my extensions and removed support for classic non-restartless extensions from my build tools — I am certain that I am not going back.
Adblock Plus 2.1.1 released · 2012-07-03 14:50 by Wladimir Palant
Changes
- Improved startup performance.
- Filter preferences: improved display in right-to-left locales.
- Fixed: Adblock Plus might break extensions like IE Tab using NPAPI plugins.
- Fixed: Filter subscriptions are no longer being updated automatically.
- Fixed: Firefox Sync support isn’t working.
Adblock Plus 2.1 released · 2012-06-28 17:53 by Wladimir Palant
- Adblock Plus can be installed without restarting the browser now.
- Added support for Firefox Mobile 14.
- Improved Thunderbird integration.
- Updated for upcoming Firefox releases (especially Firefox 15).
Where did the Adblock Plus unit tests go? · 2012-06-23 17:13 by Wladimir Palant
You probably asked yourself already what happened to the Adblock Plus unit tests. What? You didn’t? You don’t even know what unit tests are? Oops… Sorry about having bothered you. I guess nobody is reading past this point but I just have to explain it nevertheless.