Adblock Plus and (a little) more

EasyList and EasyElement got merged · 2009-01-06 11:51 by Wladimir Palant

After some discussion Rick decided that keeping EasyList and EasyElement separate is no longer necessary. Today they were combined into one subscription and I created redirects to make sure everybody using EasyElement or one of the combined subscriptions containing EasyElement gets updated automatically. Just to let everybody know that there is only EasyList and EasyPrivacy now. Adblock Plus will also recommend “plain” EasyList again starting with version 1.0.1.

Fixing issues in the release candidate · 2009-01-05 14:59 by Wladimir Palant

This is a release candidate for Adblock Plus 1.0.1.

Known issues

~~“Slow filter” exclamation mark shows up for disabled filters~~
~~“Filter source” shows disabled filter subscriptions as source~~
~~Blocking rules are sometimes misinterpreted as exception rules~~

Another Adblock Plus 1.0.1 release candidate · 2009-01-05 12:43 by Wladimir Palant

This is a release candidate for Adblock Plus 1.0.1.

Changes

New translations: Icelandic, Kazakh
Start-up performance improvements by Nickolay Ponomarev (bug 20410, bug 20411, bug 20412)
Fixed: Toolbar button shouldn’t have a drop-down arrow if extensions.adblockplus.defaulttoolbaraction preference is 0

Known issues

“Slow filter” exclamation mark shows up for disabled filters
“Filter source” shows disabled filter subscriptions as source
Blocking rules are sometimes misinterpreted as exception rules
~~Filter composer doesn’t show correct document domain for frames~~

Adblock Plus 1.0.1 release approaching · 2008-12-26 23:25 by Wladimir Palant

This is a release candidate for Adblock Plus 1.0.1.

Changes

Toolbar button now has a context menu (same as dropdown menu)
Format version is now being saved to patterns.ini, some filter data is ignored if it was saved with a different format version

Implemented site-restrictions for filters · 2008-12-21 07:34 by Wladimir Palant

String freeze for Adblock Plus 1.0.1 starts now.

Changes

Filter composer: extensions.adblockplus.composer_default preference now decides which suggestion should be selected by default (forum topic)
Filter composer: Added “Select all” and “Select none” for type checkboxes (forum topic)
Preferences: “Tip of the day” replaced by “Getting started” in Help menu
Extended list of recommended filter subscriptions and made it scrollable again
Filters can be restricted to some domains with the $domain=foo.com|bar.com option (negation also possible: $domain=~foo.com, forum topic)
Changed placement of object tabs in document to avoid breaking some sites (forum topic)
Fixed: Element hiding doesn’t work for chrome documents (Firefox 2.0/Thunderbird 2.0 only, forum topic)
Fixed: $collapse flag not being read correctly from patterns.ini

Further improvements to handling of disabled filters · 2008-12-14 23:59 by Wladimir Palant

Changes

Blockable items: New state icon for items matching disabled filters
Blockable items: Clicking in the State column now disables/re-enables the filter
Blockable items: Opening in new tab works properly in Songbird now
Blockable items: Searching for filter text now possible as well
Fixed: Filter list in Preferences sometimes won’t update properly if filters are added/removed (forum topic)
Fixed: Removed filters still apply if two different filters were translated into same regular expression
Fixed: Filters like “[Foo]” mess up filter storage file
Fixed: Filter list import doesn’t remove checksum comment
Object tabs no longer shown for invisible objects
K-Meleon: Fixed handling of some menu items in toolbar icon’s menu

Blockable items now show matching disabled filters · 2008-12-04 00:16 by Wladimir Palant

Changes

Blockable items: Matching disabled filters now displayed — for easier re-enabling (forum topic)
Added support for item type “media” (will be added in Firefox 3.1 for HTML audio/video tags)
Regression fixed: Frames are not collapsed in some situations (forum topic)
Fixed: Toolbar button shouldn’t have the same title as the Tools menu item
Fixed: Element hiding might change page layout even on whitelisted sites (forum topic, issue still exists in Firefox 2.0)

Third-party JavaScript - yes, it is a security risk · 2008-12-02 15:23 by Wladimir Palant

Third-party JavaScript includes are as popular as ever. Almost every web page includes third-party scripts, be it for advertising, for visitor statistics or just for the fun widgets. The awareness of security risks connected to it — it is just not there. All the better to see The Register bring up this issue again, this time because of Google Analytics being used on Barack Obama’s website (and particularly in the admin interface).

Adblock Plus 1.0 released · 2008-12-01 22:30 by Wladimir Palant

Major changes

Filter composer simplifies filter creation
Disabling filters directly from context menu in blockable items
Groups of user-defined filters can be disabled in preferences
Filter options $third-party and $~third-party to block only third-party/first-party requests
More reliable filter subscription downloads thanks to checksum verification
Installation in Mozilla Prism supported

Known issues

Format of the filter storage changed so going back to a previous version requires exporting the filters and re-importing them after the downgrade
Some translations contain untranslated English strings

New Adblock Plus 1.0 release candidate · 2008-11-27 21:38 by Wladimir Palant

This is a release candidate for Adblock Plus 1.0, release should be tomorrow if no more issues are found.

Changes

New locale: Indonesian

Known issues

~~patterns.ini backups are not created~~
~~Preferences: Deleting a filter via keyboard isn’t possible on Mac (forum topic)~~