Adblock Plus and (a little) more

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

A new Adblock Plus 0.7.5.3+ development build (2008040612) and a development build for K-Meleon have been uploaded. This is a release candidate for Adblock Plus 0.7.5.4. This time all locales are included but some might contain English strings.

Installation

https://adblockplus.org/devbuilds/

Changes

• Default keyboard shortcuts have been changed to avoid conflicts in Firefox 3 and Thunderbird
• Remove “Check banner links” option (forum thread)
• Hebrew (he-IL) and Malay (ms-MY) translations added
• Support for Songbird 0.4 added, now almost everything should work like in Firefox
• Songbird 0.2/0.3 support dropped
• Added support for eMusic Remote 1.0
• 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: Links in Adblock Plus dialogs don’t open (Thunderbird only)
• Fixed filter editing issues caused by landing of bug 398135
• Fixed: input focus not put back to the filter list after editing a list (Minefield only)
• Fixed: The entry “No blockable items on current page” in the list of filter suggestions should not be selectable
• 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)
• Support for Moblin browser added — untested
• 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)
• Fixed: Keyboard shortcut to close detached list of blockable items is not configurable
• K-Meleon: Done some major code refactoring
• K-Meleon: Added support for K-Meleon 1.5 (currently alpha)
• K-Meleon: Dropped support for K-Meleon 1.0
• K-Meleon: Status bar icon now reacts to middle-clicks and has a context menu (K-Meleon 1.5 only)

Known issues

• Element hiding hits are not always registered in Firefox 3, this also prevents whitelisting rules to apply to element hiding (bug 425057)
• Songbird: Context menu doesn’t always show up in Songbird, consequently not all items can be blocked via context menu
• eMusic Remote: Links in Adblock Plus dialogs load in current tab instead of opening a new one
• K-Meleon: Not working with K-Meleon 1.5 Alpha 2 due to a K-Meleon bug (bug 978)

Tags: development builds adblock plus

Comment [9]

1. Tim Hodkinson · 2008-04-06 18:14 · #

   Installs and works great for me on Ubuntu 7.10 using FF 3b5. Thanks so much! Adblocker plus really improves FF and without it, it’s not the same.

2. Nikelaos · 2008-04-08 00:14 · #

   Thanks for making Adblock compatible with the FF3 beta 5! :)
   It was such a pain without this extension!

   Nice job.

   Thanks a lot!!

3. Sharon · 2008-04-08 06:30 · #

   YEAH!!! It works with the latest and greatest 3.0b5! I REALLY, REALLY missed my AdBlock, I never knew how much I enjoyed it until it was gone. I will gladly report any issues I may have with it. Small price to pay!
   Sharon

4. Carl Clark · 2008-04-08 07:08 · #

   Oh, and I also figured out how to use Element Hiding Helper in FF 3 b5! Just modify the .rdf (XML) in the xpi (a .zip file internally) to indicate the maximum version is 3.0b5, then save that in the zip and you’re set to install it! Works great!

5. C · 2008-04-08 14:35 · #

   FF3b5 was no fun without AdBlock! Thank you, Mr Palant – you have made the ‘net worth surfing again.

6. gi no · 2008-04-10 09:01 · #

   On buy.com in the compare page adblock plus doesn’t do a good work, hiding the pics of the item I’m comparing…
   click on my website (my name) to see the picture of what I’m talking about.

   Reply from Wladimir Palant:

   See the answer that Fox gave you below. If it doesn’t help – feel free to ask in the forum (you don’t need to register, just post your question).

7. Fox · 2008-04-10 09:32 · #

   @gi no
   check these:
   http://adblockplus.org/en/tips?tip=effective_filter
   http://adblockplus.org/en/tips?tip=subscriptions_remove_filter

8. Jarret · 2008-04-11 09:50 · #

   Damn, it appears to not be in the directory anymore..

   Reply from Wladimir Palant:

   Because Adblock Plus 0.7.5.4 is already released…

9. Jarret · 2008-04-11 09:52 · #

   Ah, sorry I didn’t realize it had been released. I just checked for a b5 compatible release the other day. Nice work!! I did miss my adblock dearly!

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