Adblock Plus and (a little) more

Status Update: 2010-09-10 · 2010-09-10 18:05 by Wladimir Palant

Done

Filed more Anwiki bugs and fixed some of them, adjusted more things around the new website. It seems to be stable now so that I switched it live (caching and sharing accounts with the forum work fine).
Got confirmation from Mozilla that bug 564667 will not be fixed for Firefox 4. Managed find a work-around nevertheless and created an impressive pile of hacks. Decided not to stop pursuing this in the end and dropped installation without browser restart from the roadmap.

Status Update: 2010-09-03 · 2010-09-04 02:56 by Wladimir Palant

Done

Finished migrating all website content into Anwiki and made sure it is fully functional.

Yes, pretty much nothing else this week. That’s nine new Anwiki bugs filed, a few dozen webpages edited to remove differences between languages (had to write my own comparison script since “content desynchronization” message from Anwiki wasn’t much help), two new content classes and a bunch more code changes to make sure everything works as expected.

Status Update: 2010-08-27 · 2010-08-30 10:06 by Wladimir Palant

Done

Finished redesigning the way Adblock Plus stores its data, now following the minimalistic approach to get the best performance and minimal memory use. The usability of blockable items list suffered somewhat but seems to be acceptable so far.
Improved subscription downloads, especially to ensure better distribution over the week. Also some detail improvements and better/more unit tests.
One more trivial Firefox 4 fix due to changes in bug 383930. The issue is a minor annoyance when dealing with submenus of the context menu.
Set up a blog for EasyList, Zine turned out to be the best option after all, despite its development being seemingly stale. This blog will eventually be migrated to Zine as well, shouldn’t be too complicated.

Status Update: 2010-08-20 · 2010-08-20 18:56 by Wladimir Palant

I’ll try to publish these status updates at the end of each week — this is mainly a way for me to organize my work but it might also prove useful to somebody who wants to track Adblock Plus work. If you are annoyed by them — these will always appear in the “progress” category, many RSS feed readers allow filtering by post category. I’ll also explicitly not post these in the “adblock plus” category.

Done

Fixed regressions introduced by Firefox 4 development
Released Adblock Plus 1.2.2 from 1.2.x branch to allow using stable release with Firefox 4 betas/nightlies
Mediated morphing of RuAdList into an EasyList supplement