Adblock Plus and (a little) more

Implemented site-restrictions for filters · 2008-12-21 07:34 by Wladimir Palant

A new Adblock Plus 1.0.0+ development build (2008122105) has been uploaded. String freeze for Adblock Plus 1.0.1 starts now.

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
• 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
• 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)
• 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

Source code revision: 687dd3193204

Tags: adblock plus development builds

Comment [3]

1. rick752 · 2008-12-21 09:27 · #

   Wow Wladimir …. the new site-specific $domain option seems to work very well so far. I’ll test it more tomorrow. Awesome!

2. vida18 · 2008-12-22 13:02 · #

   And Firefox 3.1 ?

   Reply from Wladimir Palant:

   What about it? Firefox 3.1 is supported, as usually.

3. Adblock Plus Fan · 2008-12-22 18:22 · #

   So far it works great. It’s a nice christmas gift, thanks :p

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