Adblock Plus and (a little) more

Adblock Plus 1.3.5 for K-Meleon released · 2011-03-25 12:47 by Wladimir Palant

Note: This release will work only with K-Meleon 1.6. For older K-Meleon versions please continue using Adblock Plus 1.0.2. There is also a number of known issues.

For changes in this release please see the announcement for the Firefox extension. Future Adblock Plus for K-Meleon versions will released simultaneously with the corresponding Firefox versions and without any special announcement.

Adblock Plus 1.3.5 released · 2011-03-25 12:46 by Wladimir Palant

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Major changes

Added support for Firefox Mobile 4
Added support for Do Not Track proposal
Special icon state for “whitelisted” webpages removed
Various performance improvements

Detailed changelog

Known issues

Adblock Plus for Google Chrome™ (Beta) 1.1.2 released · 2011-03-17 17:00 by Wladimir Palant

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Changes

Fixed: Element hiding rules inside a frame check the wrong domain name (forum topic)
Fixed: Adblock Plus still triggers WebKit bug 45586 even when disabled (bug 23774)

Element Hiding Helper 1.1.1 released · 2011-03-11 17:50 by Wladimir Palant

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Changes

Improved escaping of attribute values
Fixed: Hotkeys in the help tooltip are invisible with some browser themes
Fixed: Clicking homepage link in About dialog doesn’t do anything
Fixed: Preview doesn’t work correctly if the rule contains international characters
Fixed: Broken composer dialog with composer_defaultDomain preference set to 1 or 2 if host name is an IP address

Adblock Plus for Google Chrome™ (Beta) 1.1.1 released · 2011-03-11 16:11 by Wladimir Palant

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Changes

Fixed: When something is blocked it won’t disappear until a refresh (regression in Adblock Plus 1.1)
Options: allowed multiple selection in “Own filters” tab
Added Chrome issue 68705 work-around for Yahoo Mail as well, typing into To field isn’t possible otherwise.

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Adblock Plus for Google Chrome™ (Beta) 1.1 released · 2011-02-28 16:58 by Wladimir Palant

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Changes

All filters are used for blocking content now, not only filters like “||example.com$third-party”
Grey icon is now being used for websites where Adblock Plus is disabled (forum topic)
Rewritten blocking of video ads on youtube.com to make it more reliable and free of side-effects
Added more websites to the list of WebKit bug 45586 work-arounds
Better filter matching performance
Removed initial hiding of Flash which is no longer necessary
Fixed: Options panel width is sometimes too small, should use the entire window (forum topic)

Diagnostics 1.1.4 for Adblock Plus released · 2011-02-16 14:50 by Wladimir Palant

Starting with Diagnostics 1.1.4 this extension will no longer be available on the Mozilla Add-ons website. The main purpose of this release is to switch over update checks to adblockplus.org, this will allow automatic notifications about updates. It also fixes a minor issue: homepage link in the About Diagnostics dialog didn’t work.

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Adblock Plus for Google Chrome™ (Beta) 1.0.26 released · 2011-01-20 08:51 by Wladimir Palant

Changes

Fixed: High memory usage and performance impact on very dynamic websites (particularly Facebook games, forum topic)
Fixed: Blocked stylesheets aren’t being disabled
Worked around WebKit bug 45586 on nubert.de (forum topic)
Fixed: Click-to-hide might add duplicate filters

Note: The change for dynamic sites might mean that you will see ads again on pages that add content dynamically (particularly Google Reader). We were unable to find any scenario where this happens, if you see one however please report it in the forum.

Adblock Plus for Google Chrome™ (Beta) 1.0.25 released · 2011-01-05 12:36 by Wladimir Palant

Changes

Worked around WebKit bug 45586 on redfin.com
Worked around Chrome bug 68518 (Flash is hidden on some sites until the browser window is resized)
Better handling of YouTube’s in-video ads
Fixed: Elements selected using “easy create filter” weren’t removed immediately, only after reloading the page
Added Simplified Chinese translation

Adblock Plus 1.3.3 released · 2011-01-05 10:45 by Wladimir Palant

This is a late release announcement for Adblock Plus 1.3.3.

Changes

Fixed Adblock Plus 1.3.2 regression: Subscription downloads fail if the proxy server requires authentication