Adblock Plus and (a little) more

This is a release candidate for Adblock Plus 1.0.1.

This is a release candidate for Adblock Plus 1.0.1.

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

This is a release candidate for Adblock Plus 1.0.1.

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

String freeze for Adblock Plus 1.0.1 starts now.

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

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: 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)

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

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

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

This is a release candidate for Adblock Plus 1.0.

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

~~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