Adblock Plus and (a little) more

Most localizations available · 2006-06-27 18:54 by Wladimir Palant

A new Adblock Plus 0.7.0.2+ development build (2006062716) has been uploaded.

Installation

https://adblockplus.org/devbuilds/ (multi-language build is missing some locales: zh-TW, da-DK, nl-NL, lt-LT, pt-BR, tr-TR)

Changes

• Changed lower bounds for required browser versions: at least Firefox 1.5 and SeaMonkey 1.0 are required now. Netscape Browser and Mozilla Suite are not supported any more.
• Added support for SeaMonkey 1.5 suiterunner nightlies
• Removed most of Gecko 1.7 compatibility code to increase performance and stability
• Added welcome dialog that allows new users to add subscriptions easily
• Toolbar icon’s tooltip shows number of blocked items and three most used filters for the current page
• Toolbar icon changes when entering a whitelisted page
• Sidebar: Only cached images should be shown in the tooltip, no additional server requests
• Preferences dialog: using inline editor to add filters now
• Preferences dialog: added an icon to abort the online editor
• Preferences dialog: added “Update all subscriptions” menu item
• Preferences dialog: added “Last hit” column (hidden by default)
• Preferences dialog: marking regular expressions with an exclamation mark
• Preferences dialog: added Apply button
• Preferences dialog: removed Help button
• Preferences dialog: Made keyboard shortcuts for the filters list respect ui.key.accelKey preference
• Preferences dialog: Ctrl/Alt-Enter will save and close the dialog now (can be pressed in the inline editor as well)
• Preferences dialog: Replaced “Writing regular expressions” by “Writing Adblock Plus filters” in the Help menu
• Preferences dialog: Using browser’s browser.downloads.lastDir preference to determine default directory for import/export of filter lists
• Filters now support options to specify the type of element they should be applied to
• Importing filter lists starting with [Adblock Plus] or [Adblock Plus {version}] now supported
• Exported filters contain a comment about required Adblock Plus version (if requiring Adblock Plus before 0.7.1) or start with [Adblock Plus {version}]
• Fixed: Changing tabs with list of blockable items open changes page scrolling
• Fixed: Subscription download sometimes fails without an obvious reason

Notes

• Adblock Plus 0.7.1 should be released on Friday.
• Locale is frozen for Adblock Plus 0.7.1 release, any changes taken now shouldn’t touch translated strings.
• Localizations are still being worked on, some locales included haven’t even been released by their authors yet.

Known issues

• If several filters only differ in the options, all filters but one are ignored
• “Collapse blocked elements” doesn’t work for frames (not iframes), throws a JavaScript error

Tags: adblock plus development builds

Comment [1]

1. Fox · 2006-06-28 22:01 · #

   Cannot block frames.
   Test site:
   http://wp.netscape.com/assist/net_sites/example1-F.html
   Javascript console has errors, i’am sure you see them too and i don’t have to copy paste them.

   And btw, latest stable Adblock Plus release is fine, it’s these/this dev build: 2006062716.

   Reply from Wladimir Palant:

   Thanks, I fixed this.

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