Adblock Plus and (a little) more
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
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 subscriptionsWelcome 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 workingPreferences 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