Adblock Plus and (a little) more
Documentation for Yahoo Mail crashes · 2006-08-15 23:16 by Wladimir Palant
People still complain frequently that their browser crashes on Yahoo Mail so I thought sending them to a (not very clearly formulated) forum post wouldn’t be the best thing to do. I wrote some text describing the problem and how it can be solved.
Adding filter subscriptions with two clicks · 2006-08-15 14:28 by Wladimir Palant
Changes
- The new
abp:protocol scheme allows subscribing with two clicks using links like the following: Subscribe to EasyList
Some polishing for the inline editor · 2006-08-15 01:01 by Wladimir Palant
Changes
- Translations added: Czech, Norwegian (Bokmål)
- No longer ignoring NewsFox’ content pane, elements of the displayed RSS feeds can be blocked now
- Preferences dialog: Improved inline editor’s compatibility with various themes
- Preferences dialog: Fixed an incompatibility with the Plastikfox theme, inline editor would resize the filter tree
- Preferences dialog: Fixed graphical glitch, list selection wouldn’t go away when inline editor is activated
- Subscription authors can now use a comment to specify when the subscription should be downloaded next time (should contain something like
expires after 5 daysorExpires: 48 hours)
Some SeaMonkey and Linux installation issues fixed · 2006-08-13 03:51 by Wladimir Palant
Changes
- Fixed: Installation in SeaMonkey on Linux sets wrong file permissions
- Installation in SeaMonkey on Linux now checks write permissions before trying to install
- Installing in Mozilla Suite not possible any more, displays an error message
Some impressive statistics [updated] · 2006-08-07 20:33 by Wladimir Palant
I looked at the site statistics for the first time since adblockplus.org went live. The traffic in July exceeded my expectations by far and makes me already worry about the traffic limit. We got 2 million page requests which translates into 130 thousands visitors — more than 4 thousands every day.
Could Adblock be built into the browser? · 2006-08-07 16:10 by Wladimir Palant
Daniel Goldman from Opera Watch wrote Why Opera wouldn’t include an AdBlock feature in the browser claiming that no browser vendor would ever include ad blocking functionality in their core browser. This claim looks a little strange given that Opera already added ad blocking functionality with the release of Opera 9. Also, ad blocking has been a built-in feature of Mozilla Suite and Firefox virtually forever even though it isn’t as powerful as Adblock (images can be blocked by domain).
Adblock Plus 0.7.1.1 released · 2006-07-17 23:58 by Wladimir Palant
This is a bugfix release, mainly fixing the Turkish locale and an 100% CPU usage issue.
Adblock Plus 0.7.1 released · 2006-07-01 10:30 by Wladimir Palant
Major changes
- New Preferences dialog layout makes adding new filters easier
- Filter changes can be applied without closing Preferences dialog
- Toolbar icon’s tooltip gives a quick overview about activity on the current page (number of blocked items, total number of items, most applied filters)
- Toolbar icon indicates a whitelisted page
- Exported filter lists contain the minimal required Adblock Plus version
- Subscription download respects HTTP headers like “Last-Modified” and “Expires”
Development builds removed · 2006-07-01 02:45 by Wladimir Palant
Adblock Plus 0.7.1 is in AMO’s review queue, they will hopefully approve it soon. I removed the development builds, there isn’t much point in testing now.
Adblock Plus 0.7.1 almost ready · 2006-06-30 23:28 by Wladimir Palant
Changes
- Preferences dialog: applying filter changes doesn’t slow down the browser’s user interface any more
- Fixed: object tabs are not hidden properly when blocking objects (regression in Adblock Plus 0.7.0.2)
- Subscription download now sends “If-Modified-Since” headers (user can override by holding Shift when clicking “Update subscription”)
- Respecting “Expires” header received from subscription now, subscriptions will only be downloaded again after the expiration date (but no longer than two weeks after previous download)
Known issues
“Collapse blocked elements” doesn’t work for frames (*not* iframes), throws a JavaScript error- Turkish translation contains some English strings