Adblock Plus and (a little) more

Changes to the "Show tabs on Flash and Java" feature, second round · 2010-03-30 07:00 by Wladimir Palant

The current Adblock Plus development build (1.1.3+.2010033002) once again reworks “Show tabs on Flash and Java” feature. This should keep all of the advantages of the previous approach but make the issues (unreliable and ugly display on Linux, focus stealing, bad positioning) go away.

Known issues:

• Tab position update is sometimes sluggish when scrolling, especially in Firefox 3.0.
• The tab will not always show up, particularly not if the mouse moves fast (this is unchanged from Adblock Plus 1.1.3).

Things to look for when testing:

• Pages where the tab is positioned incorrectly

Other changes since the previous announcement:

• A bunch of performance improvements, particularly to improve startup time
• Reworked About dialog, different (and hopefully more current) presentation of the contributors
• Fixed Adblock Plus 1.0 regression, search string was not remembered when detaching/reattaching blockable items (forum topic)
• Subscription download errors are now reported to Error Console (forum topic)
• Made chrome://adblockplus/content/errors.html page respect line breaks in error messages
• Fixed: adding a non-existent local file as a filter subscription causes it to be stuck in the “Downloading” state
• Made sure a filter section no longer stays disabled if all filters are removed from it (forum topic)
• Fixed: separate placeholders match too much (regression introduced after Adblock Plus 1.1.3)
• Simplified status bar icon, removed the invisible “Adblock” text (the corresponding user style has been updated to work nevertheless)
• Fixed: “Disable filter on …” was mistakenly hidden for some filters (bug 22481)
• Blockable items: no longer showing disabled filters if Adblock Plus is disabled (forum topic)
• Many wording fixes (thanks to Michael)
• Made sure that blockable items work correctly even if browser.frames.enabled preference is off
• Made context menu keyboard key work in blockable items list and preferences
• Fixed: Hotkey Ctrl+X sometimes wouldn’t work in Preferences
• Fixed: Preferences window broken with some system locale, e.g. Georgian (work-around for bug 508783)

Installation:
https://adblockplus.org/devbuilds/adblockplus/

Tags: adblock plus development builds

Comment [5]

1. rnr · 2010-03-30 07:51 · #

   I’m loving the performance improvements. Its giving me more headroom to work on my filter.

2. Marijo · 2010-03-30 12:04 · #

   For ppl that are wondering where the dev build actually is:
   adblockplus-1.1.3+.2010033002.xpi

   Reply from Wladimir Palant:

   Thanks, added the missing installation link.

3. Marijo · 2010-03-30 12:23 · #

   Wladimir, you’re underselling the performance improvements!
   With 3 filter subscriptions (EL, EP, EL GER) Firefox now starts almost instantly whereas with ABP 1.1.3 there was a noticeable delay (~1.5 sec).

   Thank you! :)

4. Павел · 2010-03-31 19:45 · #

   иногда не работает отключить adblock на всем сайте
   например на nokia.ru, нажимаю на отключить на сайте и все равно значок красный.хотя должен быть зеленым
   http://i6.fastpic.ru/big/2010/0331/8b/7610d5225bece4b49f8aa9f5bcec478b.jpg

   тоже самое на http://kinozal.tv/

   Reply from Wladimir Palant:

   Очень странно, у меня то же самое. Спасибо, проверю.

   Reply from Wladimir Palant:

   Спасибо, исправил и изменил автоматические тесты, чтобы в следующий раз они такую проблему засекли: https://hg.adblockplus.org/adblockplus/rev/42eafbdb5192. В следующей сборке будет работать правильно.

5. Slavic · 2010-04-04 15:23 · #

   The development build works better with Acid3 test in compare to the stable 1.1.3 build, which blocked the clickability of the reference rendering link and decreased the overall result to 1-2 points (apparently because of loop in Adblock). However, this version still suggests to block the http://acid3.acidtests.org/support-b.png element, which is not flash nor Java. No any problems with an option “Show tabs on Flash and Java” switched off. FF 3.6.3, WinXP.

   Reply from Wladimir Palant:

   This element is still an object however. I am not aware of any way to detect whether an object will allow browser’s context menu so tabs are shown on all of them just in case. Objects that embed images or HTML documents are very uncommon anyway.

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