Adblock Plus and (a little) more

Added support for permanent redirects · 2007-04-18 06:38 by Wladimir Palant

This is a release candidate for Adblock Plus 0.7.5.

Changes

Added locales: Arabic, Frisian, Mongolian
Subscription address is now changed if download results in a permanent HTTP redirect
Next download for subscriptions containing comment with text “Redirect: http://example.com/new.address” will happen from the new address, subscription address is changed if this download is successful
After 30 failed subscription download attempts the default fallback address is requested for information on new subscription address (extensions.adblockplus.subscriptions_fallbackurl and extensions.adblockplus.subscriptions_fallbackerrors preferences added)

Known issues

~~Header of the blockable items list not visible in fullscreen mode~~
~~Object subrequests in Firefox 2.0.0.4 and higher displayed with type “object”~~

Frame handling rewritten - again · 2007-03-21 04:57 by Wladimir Palant

Handling of frames has been rewritten (hopefully for the last time) to be more consistent and to avoid hitting issues in Gecko like bug 345857. Also, multi-language packages for K-Meleon can now be created (note, these packages will not work properly in K-Meleon 1.02). The multi-language builds currently contain three languages: English, German and Russian.

Changes

Removed SeaMonkey sidebar customization hack
More consistent handling of frames, less likely to trigger bugs in Gecko (side effect: frame’s URL no longer disappers from the list of blockable items when frame’s location changes)
Changed appearance of object tabs to make them less intrusive (forum thread)
Fixed: EMBED elements containing images should be recognized as objects
Fixed: Object tabs require two restarts after installation to work correctly in Firefox 3.0 alphas (bug 16077)
Made compatible with K-Meleon 1.1, multi-language packages can be built now (those will not work correctly in K-Meleon 1.02)

Known issues

~~Errors appear in the Error Console when right-clicking in XUL files~~
~~Counter for element hiding not working on table cells and rows (bug 83830)~~
Header of the blockable items list not visible in fullscreen mode

K-Meleon 1.1 compatibility issues fixed · 2007-03-16 16:02 by Wladimir Palant

A new Adblock Plus 0.7.2.4+ for K-Meleon development build (2007031614) has been uploaded. Earlier builds would not install properly in K-Meleon 1.1 (currently alpha) because this version is based on Firefox rather than SeaMonkey. These issues should be fixed now and everything should work in both K-Meleon 1.0 and K-Meleon 1.1. Please report any remaining problems.

Moved blockable items list to the bottom of the window · 2007-02-06 01:06 by Wladimir Palant

Changes

List of blockable items now appears at the bottom of the window instead of being placed in the sidebar, the behavior has been made consistent throughout host applications — with exception of K-Meleon that still supports only the detached state (forum thread)
Fixed: “Open in new tab” and “Flash item’s borders” context menu entries (blockable items list) don’t work in Thunderbird and Songbird
Dropped Songbird 0.1 support, requiring Songbird 0.2 or higher now

Known issues

~~Blockable items: “Open in new tab” and “Add exception rule for item” context menu items should be disabled for element hiding entries~~
~~Blockable items: “Address” line in the tooltip is redundant for element hiding entries~~

Element hiding counters done · 2007-02-05 01:20 by Wladimir Palant

Changes

Made matching element hiding rules appear in the list of blockable items
Added hit counts for element hiding rules
Added collapse and ~collapse filter options to override the global “Collapse blocked elements” option (the filter */banners/*$collapse will always collapse elements, */banners/*$~collapse will never collapse)
Replaced icons in the sidebar’s “State” column to make them better recognizable by colorblind people (opinions are welcome)

Element Hiding Helper: Find-As-You-Type fixed (take II) · 2007-01-30 22:34 by Wladimir Palant

Unlike the previous development build this one should work with browsers based on Gecko 1.8 as well.

Changes

Fixed: Hot keys trigger find-as-you-type and can be caught be web pages before they get to Element Hiding Helper

Cleaning up · 2007-01-30 14:23 by Wladimir Palant

I have been cleaning up, removing some parts that became unnecessary due to changes in the Adblock Plus core and altering other parts that can be implemented in a better way.

Changes

Removed useless “Block remote ads in local pages” option together with the corresponding extensions.adblockplus.blocklocalpages preference
Removed extensions.adblockplus.localschemes preference (generally blocking on all content pages now)
Removed “Not a remote page” message in sidebar and preferences dialog to be more consistent
No longer filling the list with default filters when patterns.ini doesn’t exist, offering subscriptions should be enough (extensions.adblockplus.patterns preference removed)
Removed extensions.adblockplus.checkedadblockprefs and extensions.adblockplus.checkedadblocksync preferences (Adblock’s preferences are now only imported when patterns.ini doesn’t exist yet)
Removed extensions.adblockplus.grouporder preference (hardcoded now, no point in having this as a preference)
Removed extensions.adblockplus.linktypes preference (using a more general approach to recognize nodes that can have links)
Removed extensions.adblockplus.blocktypes preference (rules like *$stylesheet can be used to prevent a particular type from being blocked)
Removed mostly useless extensions.adblockplus.noncollapsabletypes preference
Removed exceptions for about:blank
Now ignoring effectively empty rows/cols attributes when collapsing frames in a frameset
Fixed: items with same address but different type always appear as one item in the list

Element Hiding Helper: Find-As-You-Type fixed · 2007-01-29 08:52 by Wladimir Palant

Changes

Fixed: Hot keys trigger find-as-you-type and can be caught be web pages before they get to Element Hiding Helper

Element Hiding Helper: Release candidate · 2007-01-18 01:47 by Wladimir Palant

This is a release candidate for Element Hiding Helper 1.0, first localizations should be available soon.

Changes

Added options “first child” and “last child” to list of attributes
Added extensions. adblockplus. ehh. showhelp preference to allow disabling automatic help tooltip (pressing H still brings it up when this option is set to false)
Added warning if Element Hiding Helper is installed but Adblock Plus is not there or version is older than 0.7.2.3 (Firefox 2.0 and higher checks dependencies automatically)

Known issues

~~Upper case letters aren’t accepted as hotkeys when selecting an element~~

Element Hiding Helper: Almost done · 2007-01-16 00:50 by Wladimir Palant

A new development build of the Element Hiding Helper extension (0.9+.2007011523) has been uploaded.

Changes

The part of the attribute that should be used can now be specified

Known issues

~~Element selection in frames doesn’t work~~
~~Splitter is broken when switching from basic to advanced view the first time~~
~~Doesn’t work in Thunderbird/Mozilla Mail yet~~
~~“null has no properties” error in the console when opening composer window (bug 367009)~~
~~No domain suggestions in basic mode~~
Preview feature doesn’t work in Thunderbird/Mozilla Mail