Adblock Plus and (a little) more

Fixing issues in the release candidate · 2009-01-05 14:59 by Wladimir Palant

A new Adblock Plus 1.0.0+ development build (2009010513) 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

Source code revision: 8218d4f4ea69

Tags: adblock plus development builds

Comment [5]

1. Matthias · 2009-01-05 17:02 · #

   Folgender Satz erscheint gleich oben, wenn man die Adblock-Plus-Einstellungen öffnet: “Die Filter in dieser Liste bestimmen, für welche Adressen Anfragen blockiert und für welche zugelassen werden sollten:”

   Der Bezug beim letzten “zu welche” erschließt sich einem nicht unbedingt sofort. Wäre es nicht verständlicher zu schreiben: “Die Filter in dieser Liste bestimmen, für welche Adressen Anfragen blockiert oder zugelassen werden sollten:”, o.Ä.?

   Keine große Sache, aber vielleicht gibt es ja eine günstigere Formulierung der Erklärung.

   Reply from Wladimir Palant:

   Geaendert: http://hg.mozdev.org/adblockplus/rev/3c33f20dcffc. Wird jetzt leider auf Adblock Plus 1.0.2 warten muessen, habe schlichtweg vergessen, das vor dem Release zu korrigieren.

2. alien9 · 2009-01-20 18:00 · #

   please make this program available for IE browser so we can have the same experience the rest are having with other browsers. dont/ leave out IE browser. thanks,

   Reply from Wladimir Palant:

   See http://adblockplus.org/blog/adblock-for-internet-explorer-is-not-an-option

3. Woodengod · 2009-02-28 06:13 · #

   Could you please update it to install on Thunderbird 3? Thanks!

   Reply from Wladimir Palant:

   I will need to test whether it still works correctly in Thunderbird 3, from the look of it there were lots of changes and some might concern Adblock Plus as well.

4. tiik · 2009-04-05 03:37 · #

   “Look Around” expressions

   ?= Positive Look Ahead
   ?<! Negative Look Behind
   ?<= Positive Look Behind
   ?! Negative Look Ahead

   Reply from Wladimir Palant:

   So, what are you trying to say? Regular expressions in JavaScript (and hence in Adblock Plus) support look-ahead but not look-behind.

   Reply from Wladimir Palant:

   I removed your comment from another unrelated blog post. If you want a discussion – that’s what the forum is for. And – no, I cannot add look-behind, at least not until it is added to JavaScript’s regular expressions.

   Reply from Wladimir Palant:

   Actually, seeing that you already asked in the forum, I will remove this comment as well. Please stop spamming.

5. tiik · 2009-04-07 01:16 · #

   sorry
   i hope adblock plus can support look-behind.

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