Adblock Plus and (a little) more
"Filters disappear" bug probably fixed · 2007-04-27 16:13 by Wladimir Palant
A new Adblock Plus 0.7.5+ development build (2007042714) has been uploaded.
Installation
https://adblockplus.org/devbuilds/
Changes
- Probably fixed “Filters disappear” bug (bug 16488, need confirmation)
- Added Estonian and Frisian (this time for real) locales
- Fixed up abp: protocol implementation (caused Firefox windows to hang up when opening if menu bar was hidden by ABP)
- Fixed wrapping of the object tab text (caused vertical display in Japanese)
- Added moz-icon: protocol scheme to the whitelist to fix issues with FireFTP (forum thread)
- Made Filter and State columns visible by default and Type column wider
Comment [2]
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Rob · 2007-04-27 22:33 · #
I’ll give it a try. I’ve had this bug 3 times today and about 8 times over the past month.
It just seems to happen randomly, regardless of what I do.
Any idea how to replicate the bug? Or at least some idea of what I can do that might make it occur again?
Reply from Wladimir Palant:
Unfortunately – no, you simply have to use it for some time. My suspicion is that the actual bug is in Gecko, I only made sure that it doesn’t cause data loss any more.
Rob · 2007-05-06 04:14 · #
It isn’t fixed, it just happened again.
The filters list isn’t totally blank this time though.
The list, and patterns.ini, have taken the values from the preference “adblock.patterns” in about:config.
That must’ve been leftover from the original Adblock, when I uninstalled it.
Reply from Wladimir Palant:
This is something different then. Adblock Plus succeeded renaming the old patterns.ini into patterns-backup1.ini but failed writing a new version of it. I will change the code to make sure that this failure isn’t fatal any more.