Adblock Plus and (a little) more

Element Hiding Helper: Preview feature done · 2007-01-11 01:34 by Wladimir Palant

A new development build of the Element Hiding Helper extension (0.9+.2007011100) has been uploaded. This extension is meant to make creating element hiding rules easier, the code to select the element has been adopted from the Aardvark extension. Adblock Plus 0.7.2.3 or higher is required, browser requirements are the same as for Adblock Plus. This extension is still in the early development stages and some features of the final version are missing.

Installation

https://adblockplus.org/devbuilds/

Changes

• Added preview checkbox to apply current filter on the document
• Filter rule is applied immediately when it is added
• Better translation of id and class attribute rules into raw CSS

What needs to be done

• A way to specify which part of the attribute should be used
• Warning if Element Hiding Helper is installed but Adblock Plus is not there (Firefox 2.0 and higher does it automatically)

Known issues

• Element selection in frames doesn’t work
• Advanced mode: Rows of nodes used in the expression are highlighted with a small but visible delay
• Splitter is broken when switching from basic to advanced view the first time
• Doesn’t work in Thunderbird/Mozilla Mail yet
• View source tooltip’s position/size is influenced by other tooltips
• Wrong tree row selected when switching to advanced mode and some branches are collapsed
• Frame around inline elements broken into multiple lines has wrong position/size
• “null has no properties” error in the console when opening composer window (bug 367009)
• No domain suggestions in basic mode

Tags: elemhidehelper development builds

Comment [2]

1. chewey · 2007-01-12 00:23 · #

   Great once more :-)

   Say – could this be used to make a userContent.css editing extension with immediate rule application (i.e. without need to restart the program)?

   Reply from Wladimir Palant:

   Isn’t it just what Stylish is doing?

2. chewey · 2007-01-12 08:14 · #

   I think so – but stylish isn’t available for SeaMonkey, and the author doesn’t plan to support it.

   Reply from Wladimir Palant:

   I see. I must say I can understand him, supporting SeaMonkey is a pain… Hopefully they manage to bring out SeaMonkey 1.5 not too long after Firefox 3, then I can start throwing hacks out of my code.

   EHH is a very specialized extension, it not a replacement for Stylish. So your best bet would be on finding someone to port Stylish to SeaMonkey.

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