Adblock Plus and (a little) more

New "Getting Started" page · 2008-11-25 09:41 by Wladimir Palant

I created a new documentation page called Getting Started with Adblock Plus. The idea is to provide an overview for new users with links to all the relevant information. It should replace the Tip Of The Day which never really took off. Of course, some more illustrations (or, more likely, animations) need to be added to the “Solving problems” section. I also want to add “Using Adblock Plus in Thunderbird” to “First steps” because people usually don’t understand what Adblock Plus will do in a mail client. Question is, what else should go onto that page? Suggestions?

Adblock Plus 1.0 Release Candidate - now for K-Meleon · 2008-11-22 14:37 by Wladimir Palant

This is a release candidate for Adblock Plus 1.0 for K-Meleon.

Changes

Same as Adblock Plus 1.0 Release Candidate.

Dragging comments to other filter groups now possible · 2008-11-21 23:39 by Wladimir Palant

This is a release candidate for Adblock Plus 1.0.

Changes

Preferences: Comments can be moved to other filter groups via drag&drop
Preferences: Comments now always stay before the same filter (or end of the group), regardless of sorting
Preferences: Dragging comments is even possible when the list is sorted

Known issues

~~Comments cannot be moved between filter groups~~
~~Subscription dialog on first start doesn’t play nice with session restore~~
~~Preferences: when a subscription is added to the list its filters are sometimes not sorted correctly~~
~~Preferences: sometimes when a filter is removed this isn’t properly reflected in the list~~
Pattern backups are not created

Added support for Prism 0.9 · 2008-11-20 23:04 by Wladimir Palant

Changes

Added support for Prism 0.9 (forum topic)
Fixed: Clicking twice on the Enabled column starts filter editor
Fixed: “getBoxObjectFor() is deprecated” warning in error console (bug 19126)

Known issues

~~Blockable items: “Re-enable filter” not working for subscription filters~~

Whitelisting element hiding rules: fixed · 2008-11-19 10:23 by Wladimir Palant

Changes

Blockable items: Filter is shown in a different color for element hiding hits (forum topic)
Added support for private browsing mode in Firefox 3.1, hit statistics are disabled automatically
Fixed: Element hiding hits aren’t always registered in Firefox 3
Fixed: Exception rules don’t always apply to element hiding in Firefox 3 (bug 20034)
Preferences: Group/subscription titles use bold text now (forum topic)

Known issues

~~Styling broken in SeaMonkey~~
~~Third-party check fails for some addresses (forum topic)~~
~~If a filter is added while Preferences window is open and sorted, filter is added to the list twice (forum topic)~~
~~If a filter is removed while Preferences window is open and sorted, filter is not removed from the list~~
In Firefox 3.1 nightlies between 20081112 and 20081119 some scripts are invisible to Adblock Plus (bug 464754)

Closing down Bugzilla? · 2008-11-12 12:16 by Wladimir Palant

I mentioned this in my MAOW presentation already — Bugzilla isn’t exactly a very useful tool when it comes to the Adblock Plus project, at least not any more. All people who want to help others hang out in the forum and I am usually the only one who looks at bug reports in Bugzilla. As the time I have available varies (and I prefer to spend it on development anyway), some questions go unanswered for quite a while. And almost all of those questions are filter issues or Firefox bugs anyway, so they don’t really need my attention. Even for the real bug reports, I’m not the only one able to request additional details from the bug reporter.

Managing locales - now the generic way · 2008-11-05 17:44 by Wladimir Palant

Apparently, my previous post gave some people the impression that I am pushing my scripts as a generic solution for all locale validation problems. That’s certainly not the case, what I’ve done there is a quick and dirty solution for a problem I was having with Adblock Plus. I tried to detect as many of the common locale problems as possible even if the solution only works for Adblock Plus.

Managing locales · 2008-11-05 02:00 by Wladimir Palant

Managing locales is painful. Babelzilla is a big help but with 49 locales around (of which nine are incomplete) making sure that all locales included in the release are functional takes lots of time. With a new release coming up, I decided to invest some time into improving my scripts to automate as much as possible.

Starting string freeze for Adblock Plus 1.0 · 2008-11-04 02:18 by Wladimir Palant

Note: This is a first beta release for Adblock Plus 1.0. No major changes are expected at this point, in particular no string changes. The development focus now is on polishing the release and fixing remaining bugs.

Changes

Merged first run preferences extensions.adblockplus.checkedtoolbar, extensions.adblockplus.showsubscriptions, extensions.adblockplus.checkedadblockinstalled into an extensions.adblockplus.currentVersion preference
Filter subscription dialog on first run now opens in a new tab (bug 15786)
Removed Adblock warning as a separate question, made filter subscription dialog warn if Adblock is installed and suggest automatic uninstall
Preferences: using more obvious images for the “Enabled” column (forum topic, forum topic)
Added “Adblock Plus: Blockable Items” to the View menu in Firefox (View – Toolbars menu in SeaMonkey)
Renamed Tools menu item into “Adblock Plus Preferences”

Known issues

~~Filterset.G warning doesn’t pop up after upgrade from Adblock Plus 0.7.5.5~~
~~Whitelisting rules apply to entire pages by default, even the ones not starting with “http://”~~
~~Blockable items: sorting by “State” column takes precedence over user’s chosen sort order~~
Subscription dialog on first start doesn’t play nice with session restore
Styling broken in SeaMonkey

Filterset.G warning added · 2008-11-01 14:36 by Wladimir Palant

Changes

Made filter subscription dialog warn if Filterset.G is installed and suggest automatic uninstall
Subscription dialog on first start shows up even if other extensions already added a filter subscription, only existing downloadable filter subscriptions disable the dialog
Blockable items: Added “Size” column (hidden by default)
Blockable items: Added element size to the tooltip
Blockable items: Sort by “State” column by default (blocked items first)
Preferences: Made new “View” menu the context menu for list header
Preferences: Changed names for groups of user-defined filters (forum topic)
About Adblock Plus: Made homepage link localizable (and different for German/French locales, bug 17136)

Known issues

~~Preferences: Hit count and Last hit columns are not right-aligned~~
~~A choice to make a column visible doesn’t always persist~~
~~Double-clicking a group title starts editing a new filter/filter subscription~~
~~Bug 462504 will lead to data loss if JIT is turned on for chrome (affects browser nightly builds 20081028 and later)~~
Filterset.G warning doesn’t pop up after upgrade from Adblock Plus 0.7.5.5
Whitelisting rules apply to entire pages by default, even the ones not starting with “http://”
Blockable items: sorting by “State” column takes precedence over user’s chosen sort order