Adblock Plus and (a little) more

Element Hiding Helper 1.3.1 released · 2015-01-13 17:40 by Wladimir Palant

Changes

Made compatible with multiprocess Firefox (issue 1091).
Fixed: Selection via mouse wheel broken (issue 227).
Fixed: Horizontal scrollbar hides element type (issue 351).
Fixed tree view in the assistant dialog (issue 447).

Adblock Plus 2.6.6 for Firefox released · 2014-11-11 23:59 by Wladimir Palant

There is only one change, Adblock Plus will use a slightly different approach to read files from disk (issue 1510). The reason is a change that Mozilla made for Firefox and that broke Adblock Plus completely in the Firefox nightly builds.

Adblock Plus 2.6.5 for Firefox released · 2014-10-15 21:01 by Wladimir Palant

Install Adblock Plus 2.6.5 for Firefox

Changes

Fixed: Element hiding exceptions are broken by changes in Firefox 34 and Firefox 35 (issue 1241, issue 1381).
Fixed: Blocking via context menu won’t always suggest blocking the most recent request (issue 362).
Fixed: Issue reporter will complain about too many filter lists even when these filter lists are “special” like the anti-adblock list (issue 690).
Fixed: Disabling filters via space bar no longer works in preferences (issue 1129).
Fixed: Sharing Adblock Plus from the first-run page won’t work if the Anti-Social list is enabled (issue 1133).
Fixed: Anti-Adblock warning will sometimes appear on websites without any anti-adblock behavior (issue 1161).
Made $sitekey option behavior more consistent, it can be used similarly to $domain now rather than whitelisting complete websites only (issue 432).

Adblock Plus 2.6.4 for Firefox released · 2014-07-22 17:59 by Wladimir Palant

Install Adblock Plus 2.6.4 for Firefox

Changes

Made sure that data is always written to disk immediately whenever filter hit counts are reset (issue 430).
Fixed: Moving filters with Ctrl-Up/Down doesn’t work in Firefox 30 and above (issue 716).
Fixed: Find functionality in the preferences doesn’t indicate that the search pattern wasn’t found (issue 455).
Fixed: User isn’t informed about anti-adblock warnings on websites producing them (issue 764).
Fixed: Blockable items aren’t refreshed on tab change in SeaMonkey (issue 290).
Fixed: “Disable on this page only” doesn’t work correctly if the address ends with # (issue 580).

Adblock Plus 2.6.3 for Firefox released · 2014-06-03 18:05 by Wladimir Palant

Install Adblock Plus 2.6.3 for Firefox

This is a bugfix release with the focus on stability.

Changes

Worked around a Firefox bug preventing filters from being saved in Firefox 22 and older on Windows (issue 530).
Default context menu is no longer overridden on the toolbar icon if a left click would result in the same action already (issue 449).
Fixed: Adblock Plus toolbar icon appears delayed (issue 293).
Fixed: Warning shows up in console concerning use of setUserData (only resolved for Firefox 32 and higher, issue 47).
Fixed: Bogus tooltip on the “Slow” column in Filter Preferences (issue 594).

Adblock Plus 1.8.2 for Safari released · 2014-05-14 13:00 by Sebastian Noack

Install Adblock Plus 1.8.2 for Safari (Safari 6 or higher required)

Just before we released Adblock Plus for Safari last week, we realized a WebKit bug which made Adblock Plus block the content of every web page. However, the workaround we originally implemented only mitigated the issue. While websites weren’t rendered empty anymore, occasionally element hiding still didn’t work. The good news are that we finally identified the WebKit bug responsible, and implemented another workaround that hopefully fixes element hiding once and for all (issue 419).

We also fixed an issue with blocking YouTube video ads. This is the second time since last week that YouTube updated their website, and broke blocking of in-video ads with Adblock Plus for Safari (issue 471). But with this release all ads on YouTube are blocked again.

Tags: adblock plus safari releases

Adblock Plus 2.6.1 for Firefox released · 2014-05-13 14:57 by Wladimir Palant

Install Adblock Plus 2.6.1 for Firefox

This is a bugfix release with the focus on stability.

Changes

Fixed: No first-run page appears in Firefox for Android and no filter subscription is selected by default (issue 99).
Fixed: Opening settings from the first-run page doesn’t work in Firefox for Android (issue 255).
Fixed:Adblock Warning Removal List gets disabled on update even if the user opted in earlier (issue 424).
Fixed: Home and End keys don’t work when editing a filter (issue 256).
Fixed: Wrong filter rule suggested when blocking an address that contains a hash part (issue 247).
Fixed: Adblock Plus icon reappears after restart if removed from the toolbar in SeaMonkey (issue 186).

Element Hiding Helper 1.3 released · 2014-04-22 10:58 by Wladimir Palant

Install Element Hiding Helper 1.3

Changes

Fixed: Integration with the Inspector tool broken in current Firefox versions (issue 5).
Fixed: Filter Composer suggests empty domain name for host names with a trailing dot (forum topic).
Fixed: Element Hiding Helper menu item isn’t added in some windows (forum topic).
Fixed: Element Hiding Helper menu item doesn’t show up if Adblock Plus icon is placed in the Australis panel (issue 229).
Fixed: Shortcut key on OS X is Ctrl-Shift-K rather than Cmd-Shift-K.

Adblock Plus 2.6 for Firefox released · 2014-04-22 09:42 by Wladimir Palant

Install Adblock Plus 2.6 for Firefox

The main focus of this release were performance improvements.

Changes

Made sure Adblock Plus initialization doesn’t delay Firefox startup (issue 117).
Switched to a faster way to access Adblock Plus data on disk (issue 153).
Fixed regression in Adblock Plus 2.5.1: Adblock Plus initialization takes longer for each new window opened (issue 238).
Fixed: Firefox Sync integration sometimes won’t work (issue 261).
Fixed: Filter search in Filter Preferences was broken in newer Firefox versions.
Fixed: Wrong button type displayed for Adblock Plus immediately after customizing toolbar in Firefox 29 and above (bug 981543).
Fixed: Homepage link is displayed in Filter Preference even if the subscription doesn’t define a homepage (issue 48).
Fixed: Pop-up blocker won’t work in some scenarios (issue 341).
Various code cleanup tasks (issue 137, issue 301, issue 354).

Adblock Plus 1.2.1 for Android released · 2014-04-03 11:22 by Wladimir Palant

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.

Important note: We strongly encourage you to install this release as soon as possible, it fixes a security issue present in all previous Adblock Plus for Android versions.

In addition to that, this fixes a bug in the previous version that caused development builds to be offered as updates for the release version. Because of that issue most Adblock Plus for Android users are using development builds now so this release will be offered as an update for development builds as well. This unfortunately also includes users who explicitly chose to install development builds — if that’s true for you please install Adblock Plus 1.2.1.319 for Android manually to get back to the development build channel.