Adblock Plus and (a little) more

Element Hiding Helper 1.3.4 released · 2015-09-01 16:00 by Wladimir Palant

This is a bugfix release, solving only one issue. Element Hiding Helper 1.3.3 didn’t work in older Firefox releases, this issue is now resolved.

Element Hiding Helper 1.3.3 released · 2015-08-13 14:46 by Wladimir Palant

Install Element Hiding Helper 1.3.3

This release makes Element Hiding Helper compatible with Firefox 41 and above (fixes issue 2737 and issue 2816).

Adblock Plus 2.6.10 for Firefox released · 2015-07-28 15:05 by Wladimir Palant

Install Adblock Plus 2.6.10 for Firefox

This is a quality and stability release, with the focus being compatibility with upcoming Firefox versions. Most of the changes are under the hood, only the visible changes are listed:

suppress_first_run_page preference introduced by previous release can now be preconfigured by machine administrators via setting extensions.adblockplus.preconfigured.suppress_first_run_page Firefox preference (issue 2439).
Issue reporter
- Made sure there is always enough space to display report data (issue 344).
- No longer intercepting right-clicks on the resulting report link, only left- and middle-clicks result in the report being opened (issue 701).
Subscription links
- Implemented an alternative format that is easier to use in forums or emails: https://subscribe.adblockplus.org/?location=foo instead of abp:subscribe?location=foo (issue 2211).
- Fixed subscription links in multi-process Firefox (issue 1730)
Notifications
- Added global opt-out for notifications (issue 2192 and issue 2193).
- Notifications are shown immediately after download rather than waiting for a browser restart (issue 2419).
Removed inconsistent behavior (breaks backwards compatibility): exception rules starting with http:// or https:// no longer imply $document option (issue 2503).
Reduced the initial delay for filter lists and notification updates after browser startup (issue 284 and issue 2659).
First-run page: Fixed social buttons being broken starting with Firefox 38 (issue 2710).

Adblock Browser 1.0 for Android is in open beta · 2015-05-20 10:00 by Felix Dahlke

For the past few months, we’ve been working on a mobile browser with adblocking tightly integrated. Today we’re proud to announce the open beta of Adblock Browser for Android.

We’ve kept things secretive around Adblock Browser in the early phase, but like most of the things we do, it’s open source. We are now starting to make the repository, issues and code reviews public, and they’ll stay that way.

Adblock Plus 2.6.9 for Firefox released · 2015-03-31 23:56 by Wladimir Palant

Install Adblock Plus 2.6.9 for Firefox

This is another quality and stability release:

Slightly optimized performance, domain-specific filters will no longer affect overall performance (issue 2177).
Added extensions.adblockplus.suppress_first_run_page preference to allow administrators disable the first-run page if Adblock Plus is installed globally (issue 206). Note that additional changes are required to make this preference usable.
Fixed: $elemhide filter option doesn’t consider website signatures correctly (issue 2151).

Diagnostics 1.2.5 released · 2015-03-10 21:08 by Wladimir Palant

Install Diagnostics 1.2.5

This release updates the extension icon to match the new Adblock Plus logo.

Element Hiding Helper 1.3.2 released · 2015-03-10 21:06 by Wladimir Palant

Install Element Hiding Helper 1.3.2

This release updates the extension icon to match the new Adblock Plus logo.

Adblock Plus 2.6.8 for Firefox released · 2015-03-10 21:00 by Wladimir Palant

Install Adblock Plus 2.6.8 for Firefox

This release features the improved icon and logo that are already being used in Chrome, Opera and Safari (issue 1534, issue 2053, issue 2072). It also fixes an issue with the search functionality in the Filter Preferences affecting Firefox 36 and above (issue 2041).

Adblock Plus 1.3 for Android released · 2015-03-03 12:30 by René Jeschke

Install Adblock Plus for Android

If you already have Adblock Plus for Android, it should notify you about the update shortly and download it automatically.

We did a lot of under-the-hood changes again, rewrote the way libadblockplus is integrated (#16) and cleaned up the different methods for setting the proxy and deciding which method to use (#547).

Besides that we:

improved compatibility with Android Lollipop (#1498, #1848)
reduced the memory usage (#303)
included twelve new translations

and, of course, fixed a lot of various minor and major issues.

A list of all resolved issues for this release can be found here.

Adblock Plus 2.6.7 for Firefox released · 2015-01-14 22:03 by Wladimir Palant

Install Adblock Plus 2.6.7 for Firefox

Note that this release removes the “Hide placeholders of blocked elements” option from the user interface. The underlying functionality is still available via a hidden preference, as explained in the original announcement.

Changes

Removed ‘Hide placeholders of blocked elements’ option from the user interface (issue 1670).
Fixed: First-run page broken in Firefox nightlies if E10S is enabled (issue 1663, issue 1706).
Fixed first-run page layout for right-to-left languages (issue 1668).
Fixed: “Adblock Warning Removal List” is being displayed as the selected list on Firefox Mobile (issue 1712).
Fixed: “Disable on site” doesn’t always show up on Firefox Mobile (issue 1713).