Adblock Plus and (a little) more

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

A new Adblock Plus 0.7.0.2+ development build (2006063021) has been uploaded.

Installation

https://adblockplus.org/devbuilds/

Changes

• Changed lower bounds for required browser versions: at least Firefox 1.5 and SeaMonkey 1.0 are required now. Netscape Browser and Mozilla Suite are not supported any more.
• Added support for SeaMonkey 1.5 suiterunner nightlies
• Removed most of Gecko 1.7 compatibility code to increase performance and stability
• Added welcome dialog that allows new users to add subscriptions easily
• Toolbar icon’s tooltip shows number of blocked items and three most used filters for the current page
• Toolbar icon changes when entering a whitelisted page
• Sidebar: Only cached images should be shown in the tooltip, no additional server requests
• Preferences dialog: using inline editor to add filters now
• Preferences dialog: added an icon to abort the online editor
• Preferences dialog: added “Update all subscriptions” menu item
• Preferences dialog: added “Last hit” column (hidden by default)
• Preferences dialog: marking regular expressions with an exclamation mark
• Preferences dialog: added Apply button
• Preferences dialog: removed Help button
• Preferences dialog: Made keyboard shortcuts for the filters list respect ui.key.accelKey preference
• 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
• Preferences dialog: Using browser’s browser.downloads.lastDir preference to determine default directory for import/export of filter lists
• Preferences dialog: applying filter changes doesn’t slow down the browser’s user interface any more
• Filters now support options to specify the type of element they should be applied to
• Fixed: object tabs not hidden properly when blocking objects (regression in Adblock Plus 0.7.0.2)
• 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}]
• 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)
• Fixed: Changing tabs with list of blockable items open changes page scrolling
• Fixed: Subscription download sometimes fails without an obvious reason

Notes

• Adblock Plus 0.7.1 will be released in 1-2 hours

Known issues

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

Tags: adblock plus development builds

Comment [1]

1. Fox · 2006-07-01 00:51 · #

   “Collapse blocked elements” does not work with frames, it’s blocked, but it does not Collapse.
   I see this error:
   Virhe: frameset is not defined
   Lähdetiedosto: chrome://adblockplus/content/utils.js
   Rivi: 144

   This is my test page, i made it:)
   http://koti.mbnet.fi/foghorn/Fox

   I also get that error with last link i did give you, but maybe you can’t Collapse those.

   Reply from Wladimir Palant:

   Argh, I shouldn’t change code without testing it. Thanks for catching this before the release.

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