Adblock Plus and (a little) more

Further improvements to handling of disabled filters · 2008-12-14 23:59 by Wladimir Palant

A new Adblock Plus 1.0.0+ development build (2008121422) has been uploaded.

Installation

https://adblockplus.org/devbuilds/

Changes

• 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
• Added support for item type “media” (will be added in Firefox 3.1 for HTML audio/video tags)
• 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
• K-Meleon: Fixed handling of some menu items in toolbar icon’s menu

Source code revision: 0bc61dfbba1e

Tags: adblock plus development builds

Comment [1]

1. Seth · 2008-12-15 20:48 · #

   May we please have a testable example of

   Removed filters still apply if two different filters were translated into same regular expression

   Reply from Wladimir Palant:

   Add “/foo/” and “/foo/*” to your filter list. Then remove both filters. Notice how one of them still blocks things.

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