Adblock Plus and (a little) more

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

A new Adblock Plus 1.0.0+ development build (2009010511) has been uploaded. This is a release candidate for Adblock Plus 1.0.1.

Installation

https://adblockplus.org/devbuilds/

Changes

• New translations: Icelandic, Kazakh
• Start-up performance improvements by Nickolay Ponomarev (bug 20410, bug 20411, bug 20412)
• Blockable items: Matching disabled filters now displayed — for easier re-enabling (forum topic)
• 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
• 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
• Toolbar button now has a context menu (same as dropdown 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)
• Added support for item type “media” (will be added in Firefox 3.1 for HTML audio/video tags)
• Format version is now being saved to patterns.ini
• 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)
• 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
• Changed placement of object tabs in document to avoid breaking some sites (forum topic)
• K-Meleon: Fixed handling of some menu items in toolbar icon’s menu
• 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
• 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

Source code revision: cb03084b1bcc

Tags: adblock plus development builds

Comment [2]

1. MonztA · 2009-01-05 14:38 · #

   Bloked elements are green instead of red. http://i40.tinypic.com/200tjcw.png

   Reply from Wladimir Palant:

   Fixed: http://hg.mozdev.org/adblockplus/rev/8218d4f4ea69

2. MonztA · 2009-01-05 14:44 · #

   I think there’s even whitelisting involved. On Pcgames.de http://tinyurl.com/8ttx59 I get Intellitxt ads and a banner.

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