Adblock Plus and (a little) more

Most localizations available · 2006-06-27 18:54 by Wladimir Palant

Changes

Preferences dialog: Using browser’s browser.downloads.lastDir preference to determine default directory for import/export of filter lists
Fixed: Changing tabs with list of blockable items open changes page scrolling
Fixed: Subscription download sometimes fails without an obvious reason

Known issues

~~If several filters only differ in the options, all filters but one are ignored~~

Ethics of blocking ads · 2006-06-27 04:55 by Wladimir Palant

I found one of the better blog posts on the topic of ethical implications of ad blocking today. Being on the pro-adblock side of the discussion, it doesn’t fall for the usual “I don’t care how they earn their money” kind of argument.

Site partially moved · 2006-06-26 20:45 by Wladimir Palant

I am finished moving the English part of the Adblock Plus site over to adblockplus.org. So far Textpattern looks like a great publishing plattform, the only annoyance being its formatting module – mixing Textile formatting with HTML often results in broken HTML. For code formatting I had to hack the Textile class, all other issues could be solved with plugins. We’ll see how it works now.

What would be an Adblock Plus release without extended filter syntax? · 2006-06-23 18:31 by Wladimir Palant

Changes

Preferences dialog: Ctrl/Alt+Enter will save and close the dialog now (can be pressed in the inline editor as well)
Preferences dialog: Replaced “Writing regular expressions” by “Writing Adblock Plus filters” in the Help menu
Filters now support options to specify the type of element they should be applied to
Importing filter lists starting with [Adblock Plus] or [Adblock Plus {version}] now supported.
Exported filters contain a comment about required Adblock Plus version (if requiring Adblock Plus before 0.7.1) or start with [Adblock Plus {version}]

Known issues

~~Welcome dialog: Homepage links only work for two of the subscriptions~~
~~Welcome dialog: There should be a button to add custom subscriptions~~

Mozilla developers about Adblock · 2006-06-22 20:25 by Wladimir Palant

<shaver> adblock is causing me so much heartburn right now
<mcsmurf> adblock or adblock plus or adblock plus enhanced or adblock advanced?
<luser> adblock eXtreme
<gavin> adblock eXtreme sucks, I use adblock eXtreme ++Plus

Tu programa ha sido publicado · 2006-06-22 18:08 by Wladimir Palant

It is always fun to receive mails in a language you don’t understand, especially when the spam filter automatically sorts them out. Still, it seems that Adblock Plus has been listed on some Spanish site called uptodown.com and got recommended by their editors. Now I only need to know — is this a good thing? Does somebody know the site?

Welcome to Adblock Plus - here are your subscriptions · 2006-06-22 15:46 by Wladimir Palant

Changes

Added welcome dialog that allows new users to add subscriptions easily
Preferences dialog: Made keyboard shortcuts for the filters list respect ui.key.accelKey preference

Known issues

~~Preferences dialog: regexp mark sometimes fails to load (Gecko/XUL cache issue)~~

Tooltips fun · 2006-06-21 04:45 by Wladimir Palant

Changes

Toolbar icon’s tooltip shows number of blocked items and three most used filters for the current page
Toolbar icon changes when entering a whitelisted page

Known issues

~~Preferences dialog: “Update subscription now” in the context menu stopped working~~
~~Preferences dialog: “Update subscription now” in the context menu should have keyboard shortcut Ctrl+T~~

Finding unused filters easily - with the "Last hit" column · 2006-06-21 01:30 by Wladimir Palant

Changes

Preferences dialog: added “Update all subscriptions” menu item
Preferences dialog: added “Last hit” column (hidden by default)
Preferences dialog: marking regular expressions with an exclamation mark

Sidebar tooltips should only show cached images · 2006-06-20 01:16 by Wladimir Palant

Changes

Removed most of Gecko 1.7 compatibility code to increase performance and stability
Sidebar: Only cached images should be shown in the tooltip, no additional server requests

Known issues

~~Preferences dialog: Flashing item borders stopped working when selecting an item from dropdown list~~
~~Preferences dialog: Trying to open context menu on the editor produces weird behavior~~
~~Preferences dialog: RegExp warning appears when editing a filter that was already a regular expression~~
~~Preferences dialog: Filter subscriptions cannot be disabled~~
~~Preferences dialog: Selecting Paste from menu while inline editor is open produces weird behavior~~