Adblock Plus and (a little) more
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
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 1.0 released · 2007-01-23 02:31 by Wladimir Palant
Features
- Simple but powerful selection of the element to be hidden (thanks Aardvark)
- Automatic generation of an element hiding rule based on specified criteria
- Advanced mode for complicated rules, allows selecting attributes of parent and sibling nodes, attribute parts and custom CSS
- Rules are applied immediately, with “Preview” switched on even during composing
Known issues
- Preview feature doesn’t work in Mozilla Mail/Thunderbird
- View source tooltip’s position and size is influenced by other tooltips
- Wrong frame position and size for inline elements that are broken into multiple lines
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. showhelppreference to allow disabling automatic help tooltip (pressing H still brings it up when this option is set tofalse) - 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 workSplitter is broken when switching from basic to advanced view the first timeDoesn’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
Element Hiding Helper: Preview feature done · 2007-01-11 01:34 by Wladimir Palant
A new development build of the Element Hiding Helper extension (0.9+.2007011100) has been uploaded.
Changes
- Added preview checkbox to apply current filter on the document
- Filter rule is applied immediately when it is added
- Better translation of id and class attribute rules into raw CSS
Known issues
Advanced mode: Rows of nodes used in the expression are highlighted with a small but visible delayWrong tree row selected when switching to advanced mode and some branches are collapsed- Frame around inline elements broken into multiple lines has wrong position/size
- “null has no properties” error in the console when opening composer window (bug 367009)
- No domain suggestions in basic mode
Element Hiding Helper: View source command implemented · 2007-01-09 21:35 by Wladimir Palant
A new development build of the Element Hiding Helper extension (0.9+.2007010920) has been uploaded.
Changes
- The commands “view source” and “view source in separate window” are now available when selecting an element
- Advanced mode: Tree columns id and class now hidden by default to save space
Known issues
Non-standard characters in attribute names are not escapedEmpty attributes cannot be selectedSometimes selection’s label itself is selectedPort number is not removed from the suggested domain nameElement selection should not start on file:// URLs (element hiding cannot be applied to those)- View source tooltip’s position/size is influenced by other tooltips
- Wrong tree row selected when switching to advanced mode and some branches are collapsed
Element Hiding Helper: Getting closer · 2007-01-09 00:11 by Wladimir Palant
A new development build of the Element Hiding Helper extension (0.9+.2007010823) has been uploaded.
Changes
- Advanced filter composition mode mostly implemented (attributes of parent/sibling nodes can be used, entering custom CSS selector parts is possible)
What needs to be done
- A way to specify which part of the attribute should be used
Known issues
Shortcut key doesn’t work in SeaMonkeyIt is possible to invoke the “wider” function on the “html” nodeIf a command fails, it triggers find-as-you-type (if enabled)Context menu items are not hidden properly in SeaMonkeyErrors when starting EHH during page loadKeyboard shortcuts starts EHH even on documents it doesn’t support- Advanced mode: Rows of nodes used in the expression are highlighted with a small but visible delay
- Splitter is broken when switching from basic to advanced view the first time
- Non-standard characters in attribute names are not escaped
- Empty attributes cannot be selected
- Sometimes selection’s label itself is selected
- Port number is not removed from the suggested domain name
- Element selection should not start on file:// URLs (element hiding cannot be applied to those)
- Doesn’t work in Thunderbird/Mozilla Mail yet
Element Hiding Helper: The first try · 2007-01-08 01:35 by Wladimir Palant
The first development build of the Element Hiding Helper extension (0.9+.2007010800) has been uploaded. This extension is meant to make creating element hiding rules easier, the code to select the element has been adopted from the Aardvark extension. Adblock Plus 0.7.2.3 or higher is required, browser requirements are the same as for Adblock Plus. This extension is still in the early development stages and some features of the final version are missing.