Adblock Plus and (a little) more

Introducing filter composer · 2008-06-23 03:53 by Wladimir Palant

Only en-US locale is available at the moment.

Changes

Added new filter composer dialog that is opened to add a new filter
Added hidden preference extensions.adblockplus.usefiltercomposer to choose between filter composer and preferences dialog for adding of new filters (this preference might be removed later)
Blockable items: Changed default action for blocked items to “add exception rule” instead of “edit filter”
Fixed: Subscriptions are sometimes loaded from browser cache
Added hidden preference extensions.adblockplus.savestats to allow turning off hit statistics (useful if patterns.ini is put into a version control system)
Firefox 1.5, Thunderbird 1.5 and SeaMonkey 1.0 are no longer supported
Flock 1.2 is supported now
Cleaned up some backwards compatibility hacks
Removed ancient drag&drop handling code (not discoverable and not advertised anywhere)

Known issues

Filter composer should warn if Adblock Plus is disabled
Filter composer should have a help text for “custom pattern” field
Filter composer won’t work in Firefox 2
Clicks on the status bar icon are ignored

Improving Songbird compatibility once again · 2008-05-16 11:47 by Wladimir Palant

The changes in these development builds concern only Songbird users.

Changes

Fixed: Adblock Plus only works with the default Songbird feathers (Songbird bug 8785)
Removed support for Songbird 0.4, added support for Songbird 0.6

Known issues

~~Songbird: Context menu doesn’t always show up in Songbird, consequently not all items can be blocked via context menu~~

Another release candidate - now with all translations · 2008-04-06 14:48 by Wladimir Palant

This is a release candidate for Adblock Plus 0.7.5.4. This time all locales are included but some might contain English strings.

Changes

Hebrew (he-IL) and Malay (ms-MY) translations added
Fixed: Keyboard shortcut to close detached list of blockable items is not configurable

Preparing to release Adblock Plus 0.7.5.4 · 2008-04-04 23:31 by Wladimir Palant

Changes

Default keyboard shortcuts have been changed to avoid conflicts in Firefox 3 and Thunderbird
Remove “Check banner links” option (forum thread)
Content policy now returns “blocked based on server” to trigger special handling in Firefox 3
“Flash borders” in list of blockable elements will stay longer (forum thread)

Known issues

~~K-Meleon: Context menu entries not always shown~~
K-Meleon: Not working with K-Meleon 1.5 Alpha 2 due to a K-Meleon bug (bug 978)

Adblock Plus Watcher: first try · 2008-03-24 01:55 by Wladimir Palant

Adblock Plus Watcher can be opened either from the Adblock Plus menu or with the Ctrl+Shift+M keyboard shortcut. It will show all requests processed by Adblock Plus and some technical information in a list that can be filtered as necessary.

Note: This is a diagnostic extension meant mostly for investigating of Adblock Plus related issues. It will be useless to most.

More Firefox 3 fixes · 2008-03-21 23:53 by Wladimir Palant

Changes

Whitelisting rules now apply to element hiding rules as well (bug 14814) (won’t work properly in Firefox 3, see known issues)
Added support for new content types previously listed as “other” (Firefox 3 only): XBL bindings, link pings, XML HTTP requests, object subrequests and DTDs (corresponding filter options are xbl, ping, xmlhttprequest, object-subrequest and dtd respectively)
Fixed: Error messages when inserting filters in Preferences
Fixed: Account for new XUL iframe behavior in Firefox 3 (documents load in invisible iframes as well now)

Known issues

Element hiding hits are not always registered in Firefox 3, this always prevents whitelisting rules to apply to element hiding
~~Songbird: Status bar icon doesn’t react to clicks (Songbird bug 6719)~~

Crash in K-Meleon 1.1 fixed · 2008-01-18 02:08 by Wladimir Palant

With the crash in K-Meleon 1.1 fixed, this is a release candidate.

Known issues

~~K-Meleon 1.1.3 crashes with this build~~

More robust K-Meleon support · 2008-01-17 12:03 by Wladimir Palant

Large parts of the K-Meleon-specific code have been rewritten to make it easier to maintain and more robust towards future Gecko/K-Meleon changes.

Changes

Done some major code refactoring
Added support for K-Meleon 1.5 (currently alpha)
Dropped support for K-Meleon 1.0

Status bar icon now reacts to middle-clicks and has a context menu (K-Meleon 1.5 only)

Known issues

K-Meleon 1.1.3 crashes with this build

Tooltips on status bar icons are still not supported in K-Meleon

Element Hiding Helper: Matching range of supported applications · 2008-01-11 09:28 by Wladimir Palant

Changes

Made compatibility info match Adblock Plus: Songbird 0.4, eMusic Remote, Moblin browser supported, Songbird 0.2/0.3 support dropped

eMusic Remote supported as well · 2008-01-11 09:17 by Wladimir Palant

Changes

Hebrew (he-IL) translation added
Added support for eMusic Remote 1.0

Fixed: Links in Adblock Plus dialogs don’t open (Thunderbird only)