Adblock Plus and (a little) more
Adblock Plus 1.1.2 release candidate · 2009-12-09 10:39 by Wladimir Palant
Adblock Plus 1.1.2 release is coming close, the current development build (Adblock Plus 1.1.1+.2009120902) is a release candidate. Recent changes:
- Improved the way “Subscribe” links in webpages are handled by Fennec, this makes it possible to add a subscription that isn’t on the list of recommendations. These links can be tested here.
- “Subscribe” links that aren’t pointing to a valid HTTP/FTP location will no longer be handled.
- Users without filters will be presented a list of subscriptions to choose from on update as well, not only on a new install.
- Subscription downloads will no longer fail if the user misconfigured “network.http.redirection-limit” preference.
Installation:
https://adblockplus.org/devbuilds/adblockplus/
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Anonymous · 2009-12-10 04:35 · #
“Users without filters will be presented a list of subscriptions to choose from on update as well, not only on a new install.”
Do you mean “without filters” or “without a filter subscription”? I hope you mean the former. The latter would prove very annoying for people who intentionally don’t use a subscription.
Related to that, would you consider disabling the filter subscription dialog on new installs for users who already have filters?
Reply from Wladimir Palant:
Yes, I mean “without filters”. This is about giving a second chance to people who didn’t mean to create own filters but for some reason didn’t add a subscription when asked.
Why should I disable this dialog for people who have filters on first install? If that’s the first install, where would they get these filters from? If these filters are imported from Adblock then I for sure want the people to see they don’t need to do things manually in Adblock Plus. If these filters were installed by the administrator then the same administrator can change the value for extensions.adblockplus.currentVersion appropriately (not that this is a common case – if the administrator installs same filters for everybody he will most likely add a subscription).
Anonymous · 2009-12-16 01:34 · #
In my case, the filters come from the Firefox profile in my version-controlled home directory. :)
If you import filters from Adblock, then sure, I agree that you should offer a subscription as an alternative. Do you have any statistics for how many people actually still use Adblock and upgrade to Adblock Plus? Can you distinguish this specific upgrade case from the general “already has filters” case?
As for the “installed by the administrator” case, manually updating extensions.adblockplus.currentVersion for every upgrade would prove fairly onerous…
Reply from Wladimir Palant:
There aren’t many people migrating from Adblock these days – but still significantly more than people installing filters manually (yet without adding a filter subscription).
Why setting currentVersion pref for every upgrade? It only needs to be set once to any value (like “0.1”) simply to make sure Adblock Plus doesn’t consider you a new installation but an update. The user has filters already, this means that no questions will be asked on updates.