Adblock Plus and (a little) more

Adblock Plus for Thunderbird - coming! · 2006-09-21 23:37 by Wladimir Palant

Note that even though this development build installs in Thunderbird and Songbird there is absolutely no user interface integration. You can only access the preferences via Tools / Extensions / Options (or File / Extensions / Options in Songbird). Integration in Thunderbird will improve, Songbird integration will stay very basic however — your best choice will be to install a subscription there.

Changes

Changed install.rdf to allow installation in Thunderbird and Songbird
Removed mail-specific protocols from the whitelist to allow blocking content in Thunderbird
Fixed checkboxes in welcome dialog on Linux (forum thread)
Now blocking content on keyword: URLs as well (bug 15072)
Removed URL validation when deciding whether the URL uses to a whitelisted scheme (bug 15072)
Made about:blank an exception, isn’t whitelisted by its scheme any more (bug 14793)

Did somebody ask for K-Meleon support? · 2006-09-20 03:36 by Wladimir Palant

This is the first development build of the binary K-Meleon plugin that allows K-Meleon users to use Adblock Plus. It is basically Adblock Plus 0.7.1.2 with a different packaging.

Two new translations added · 2006-08-17 22:31 by Wladimir Palant

Changes

Translations added: Greek, Ukrainian

Known issues

~~abp: links not UTF-8 encoding are not accepted~~

Adding filter subscriptions with two clicks · 2006-08-15 14:28 by Wladimir Palant

Changes

The new abp: protocol scheme allows subscribing with two clicks using links like the following: Subscribe to EasyList

Some polishing for the inline editor · 2006-08-15 01:01 by Wladimir Palant

Changes

Translations added: Czech, Norwegian (Bokmål)
No longer ignoring NewsFox’ content pane, elements of the displayed RSS feeds can be blocked now
Preferences dialog: Improved inline editor’s compatibility with various themes
Preferences dialog: Fixed an incompatibility with the Plastikfox theme, inline editor would resize the filter tree
Preferences dialog: Fixed graphical glitch, list selection wouldn’t go away when inline editor is activated
Subscription authors can now use a comment to specify when the subscription should be downloaded next time (should contain something like expires after 5 days or Expires: 48 hours)

Some SeaMonkey and Linux installation issues fixed · 2006-08-13 03:51 by Wladimir Palant

Changes

Fixed: Installation in SeaMonkey on Linux sets wrong file permissions
Installation in SeaMonkey on Linux now checks write permissions before trying to install
Installing in Mozilla Suite not possible any more, displays an error message

Development builds removed · 2006-07-01 02:45 by Wladimir Palant

Adblock Plus 0.7.1 is in AMO’s review queue, they will hopefully approve it soon. I removed the development builds, there isn’t much point in testing now.

Adblock Plus 0.7.1 almost ready · 2006-06-30 23:28 by Wladimir Palant

Changes

Preferences dialog: applying filter changes doesn’t slow down the browser’s user interface any more
Fixed: object tabs are not hidden properly when blocking objects (regression in Adblock Plus 0.7.0.2)
Subscription download now sends “If-Modified-Since” headers (user can override by holding Shift when clicking “Update subscription”)
Respecting “Expires” header received from subscription now, subscriptions will only be downloaded again after the expiration date (but no longer than two weeks after previous download)

Known issues

~~“Collapse blocked elements” doesn’t work for frames (*not* iframes), throws a JavaScript error~~
Turkish translation contains some English strings

Most localizations available · 2006-06-27 18:54 by Wladimir Palant

Changes

Preferences dialog: Using browser’s browser.downloads.lastDir preference to determine default directory for import/export of filter lists
Fixed: Changing tabs with list of blockable items open changes page scrolling
Fixed: Subscription download sometimes fails without an obvious reason

Known issues

~~If several filters only differ in the options, all filters but one are ignored~~

What would be an Adblock Plus release without extended filter syntax? · 2006-06-23 18:31 by Wladimir Palant

Changes

Preferences dialog: Ctrl/Alt+Enter will save and close the dialog now (can be pressed in the inline editor as well)
Preferences dialog: Replaced “Writing regular expressions” by “Writing Adblock Plus filters” in the Help menu
Filters now support options to specify the type of element they should be applied to
Importing filter lists starting with [Adblock Plus] or [Adblock Plus {version}] now supported.
Exported filters contain a comment about required Adblock Plus version (if requiring Adblock Plus before 0.7.1) or start with [Adblock Plus {version}]

Known issues

~~Welcome dialog: Homepage links only work for two of the subscriptions~~
~~Welcome dialog: There should be a button to add custom subscriptions~~