Adblock Plus and (a little) more

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

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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)

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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

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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

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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

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Apply changes without closing Preferences · 2006-06-19 18:40 by Wladimir Palant

Changes

  • Added support for SeaMonkey 1.5 suiterunner nightlies
  • Preferences dialog: added Apply button
  • Preferences dialog: removed Help button

Known issues

  • Preferences dialog: Crash when OK/Cancel is pressed while inline editor is open and regexp warning dialog is triggered
  • Preferences dialog: A single click on “Add filter” in the list should start the editor

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Gecko 1.7 support officially dropped · 2006-06-19 00:19 by Wladimir Palant

Changes

  • Changed lower bounds for required browser versions: at least Firefox 1.5 and SeaMonkey 1.0 are required now. Netscape Browser and Mozilla Suite are not supported any more.
  • Started removing compatibility code for Gecko 1.7 to increase performance and stability

Known issues

  • When the inline editor opens for the first time it contains the first entry from the dropdown list for a moment.

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Adblock Plus 0.7.0.2+ progress · 2006-06-15 18:33 by Wladimir Palant

Changes

  • Preferences dialog: added an icon to abort the online editor

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Adblock Plus 0.7.0.2+ progress · 2006-06-12 17:01 by Wladimir Palant

Changes

  • Preferences dialog: using inline editor to add filters now

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