Adblock Plus and (a little) more

Adblock Plus 1.2 released · 2010-04-30 15:42 by Wladimir Palant

Major changes

  • Completely reworked subscriptions user interface, better first-run experience
  • Many performance improvements, in particular improvements to startup time
  • Fixed most issues with the “Tabs on Flash and Java” feature
  • More information in the ABP icon tooltip
  • Better Fennec, Thunderbird and SeaMonkey support

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Adblock Plus 1.1.3 released · 2010-01-07 11:36 by Wladimir Palant

This is a bugfix release with minimal changes.

Changes

  • Adblock Plus 1.1.2 regression fixed: Filter hits are counted in private browsing mode
  • Fixed: Subscription dialog comes up on each update in Fennec, regardless of existing subscriptions
  • Updated compatibility range for Songbird, 1.4.0 to 1.7.0a supported now

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Adblock Plus 1.1.2 released · 2009-12-12 10:30 by Wladimir Palant

Major changes

  • Minimal Fennec 1.0 support (at least Beta 6 required)
  • Made subscription downloads support load balancing, downloads can be distributed to several servers now
  • Subscription downloads no longer fail if network.http.redirection-limit preference is misconfigured
  • List of filter subscriptions no longer offered only on first installation, also offered on update if the user has neither filter subscriptions nor own filters
  • Improved recognition of document source for $domain option in the filters

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Adblock Plus 1.1.1 released · 2009-08-12 20:38 by Wladimir Palant

Changes

This is mostly a bugfix release that fixes several issues in Adblock Plus 1.1.

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Adblock Plus 1.1 released · 2009-07-14 18:47 by Wladimir Palant

Major changes

  • “Block” tab on Flash and Java is no longer permanently visible
  • Diagnostics page under chrome://adblockplus/content/errors.html
  • Handling of HTTP redirects
  • Blocking entire domains with filters like ||example.com^
  • Domain exceptions in element hiding rules
  • Performance and memory use improvements

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Element Hiding Helper 1.0.6 released · 2009-07-01 14:50 by Wladimir Palant

Changes

  • New translations: Arabic, Basque, Galician, Armenian, Kazakh, Serbian
  • Updated for Adblock Plus 1.1
  • Updated compatibility range for various applications
  • Generated rules always use raw CSS now, “simplified” syntax is deprecated

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Adblock Plus Watcher 1.1.2 released · 2009-04-29 11:06 by Wladimir Palant

Changes

  • Added “internal invocations” to the list – calls that do not come through content policy, especially element hiding hits
  • Prepared for Adblock Plus 1.1
  • Updated compatibility information

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Adblock Plus 1.0.2 released · 2009-04-15 19:07 by Wladimir Palant

Changes

  • New translation: Serbian
  • Element hiding works in Firefox 3.0.9 and higher again (forum topic, broken by fix for bug 416942)
  • Regular expressions with $domain options are recognized correctly
  • Blockable items: when copying addresses or filters to clipboard platform’s linebreaks are used as separator (previously: Unix linebreaks)
  • Preferences: using more compact date formatting for last hit column and last download of subscription

Known issues

  • Some translations contain untranslated English strings

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Adblock Plus Watcher 1.1.1 released · 2009-04-12 11:46 by Wladimir Palant

Changes

  • Fixed content type display to work properly with Adblock Plus 1.0.1 and higher
  • Updated compatibility information

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Adblock Plus 1.0.1 released · 2009-01-10 18:30 by Wladimir Palant

Major changes

  • New translations: Icelandic, Kazakh
  • Disabled filters are now displayed in list of blockable items and can be reenabled with one click
  • Filters can be restricted to a domain with $domain=foo.com option (documentation)
  • Improved start-up performance

Known issues

  • Some translations contain untranslated English strings

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