Adblock Plus and (a little) more

Another Adblock Plus 1.0.1 release candidate · 2009-01-05 12:43 by Wladimir Palant

This is a release candidate for Adblock Plus 1.0.1.

Changes

  • New translations: Icelandic, Kazakh
  • Start-up performance improvements by Nickolay Ponomarev (bug 20410, bug 20411, bug 20412)
  • Fixed: Toolbar button shouldn’t have a drop-down arrow if extensions.adblockplus.defaulttoolbaraction preference is 0

Known issues

  • “Slow filter” exclamation mark shows up for disabled filters
  • “Filter source” shows disabled filter subscriptions as source
  • Blocking rules are sometimes misinterpreted as exception rules
  • Filter composer doesn’t show correct document domain for frames

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Adblock Plus 1.0.1 release approaching · 2008-12-26 23:25 by Wladimir Palant

This is a release candidate for Adblock Plus 1.0.1.

Changes

  • Toolbar button now has a context menu (same as dropdown menu)
  • Format version is now being saved to patterns.ini, some filter data is ignored if it was saved with a different format version

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Implemented site-restrictions for filters · 2008-12-21 07:34 by Wladimir Palant

String freeze for Adblock Plus 1.0.1 starts now.

Changes

  • Filter composer: extensions.adblockplus.composer_default preference now decides which suggestion should be selected by default (forum topic)
  • Filter composer: Added “Select all” and “Select none” for type checkboxes (forum topic)
  • Preferences: “Tip of the day” replaced by “Getting started” in Help menu
  • Extended list of recommended filter subscriptions and made it scrollable again
  • Filters can be restricted to some domains with the $domain=foo.com|bar.com option (negation also possible: $domain=~foo.com, forum topic)
  • Changed placement of object tabs in document to avoid breaking some sites (forum topic)
  • Fixed: Element hiding doesn’t work for chrome documents (Firefox 2.0/Thunderbird 2.0 only, forum topic)
  • Fixed: $collapse flag not being read correctly from patterns.ini

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Further improvements to handling of disabled filters · 2008-12-14 23:59 by Wladimir Palant

Changes

  • Blockable items: New state icon for items matching disabled filters
  • Blockable items: Clicking in the State column now disables/re-enables the filter
  • Blockable items: Opening in new tab works properly in Songbird now
  • Blockable items: Searching for filter text now possible as well
  • Fixed: Filter list in Preferences sometimes won’t update properly if filters are added/removed (forum topic)
  • Fixed: Removed filters still apply if two different filters were translated into same regular expression
  • Fixed: Filters like “[Foo]” mess up filter storage file
  • Fixed: Filter list import doesn’t remove checksum comment
  • Object tabs no longer shown for invisible objects
  • K-Meleon: Fixed handling of some menu items in toolbar icon’s menu

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Blockable items now show matching disabled filters · 2008-12-04 00:16 by Wladimir Palant

Changes

  • Blockable items: Matching disabled filters now displayed — for easier re-enabling (forum topic)
  • Added support for item type “media” (will be added in Firefox 3.1 for HTML audio/video tags)
  • Regression fixed: Frames are not collapsed in some situations (forum topic)
  • Fixed: Toolbar button shouldn’t have the same title as the Tools menu item
  • Fixed: Element hiding might change page layout even on whitelisted sites (forum topic, issue still exists in Firefox 2.0)

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New Adblock Plus 1.0 release candidate · 2008-11-27 21:38 by Wladimir Palant

This is a release candidate for Adblock Plus 1.0, release should be tomorrow if no more issues are found.

Changes

  • New locale: Indonesian

Known issues

  • patterns.ini backups are not created
  • Preferences: Deleting a filter via keyboard isn’t possible on Mac (forum topic)

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Adblock Plus 1.0 Release Candidate - now for K-Meleon · 2008-11-22 14:37 by Wladimir Palant

This is a release candidate for Adblock Plus 1.0 for K-Meleon.

Changes

Same as Adblock Plus 1.0 Release Candidate.

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Dragging comments to other filter groups now possible · 2008-11-21 23:39 by Wladimir Palant

This is a release candidate for Adblock Plus 1.0.

Changes

  • Preferences: Comments can be moved to other filter groups via drag&drop
  • Preferences: Comments now always stay before the same filter (or end of the group), regardless of sorting
  • Preferences: Dragging comments is even possible when the list is sorted

Known issues

  • Comments cannot be moved between filter groups
  • Subscription dialog on first start doesn’t play nice with session restore
  • Preferences: when a subscription is added to the list its filters are sometimes not sorted correctly
  • Preferences: sometimes when a filter is removed this isn’t properly reflected in the list
  • Pattern backups are not created

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Added support for Prism 0.9 · 2008-11-20 23:04 by Wladimir Palant

Changes

  • Added support for Prism 0.9 (forum topic)
  • Fixed: Clicking twice on the Enabled column starts filter editor
  • Fixed: “getBoxObjectFor() is deprecated” warning in error console (bug 19126)

Known issues

  • Blockable items: “Re-enable filter” not working for subscription filters

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Whitelisting element hiding rules: fixed · 2008-11-19 10:23 by Wladimir Palant

Changes

  • Blockable items: Filter is shown in a different color for element hiding hits (forum topic)
  • Added support for private browsing mode in Firefox 3.1, hit statistics are disabled automatically
  • Fixed: Element hiding hits aren’t always registered in Firefox 3
  • Fixed: Exception rules don’t always apply to element hiding in Firefox 3 (bug 20034)
  • Preferences: Group/subscription titles use bold text now (forum topic)

Known issues

  • Styling broken in SeaMonkey
  • Third-party check fails for some addresses (forum topic)
  • If a filter is added while Preferences window is open and sorted, filter is added to the list twice (forum topic)
  • If a filter is removed while Preferences window is open and sorted, filter is not removed from the list
  • In Firefox 3.1 nightlies between 20081112 and 20081119 some scripts are invisible to Adblock Plus (bug 464754)

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