Adblock Plus and (a little) more
New way to store data · 2010-08-27 07:00 by Wladimir Palant
The new development build (1.3a.20100826) has gone through some major rearchitecturing, the way it stores data changed radically. The purpose of this change is to improve performance and memory use: Adblock Plus no longer stores more data than necessary and will do only as little bookkeeping as absolutely necessary. The areas affected by this change are:
- List of blockable items (will no longer show all data immediately when opened, instead it will take a few seconds to fetch the data)
- Toolbar icon tooltip (now counts the actual hits so that the number might be higher than what you see in the list of blockable items)
- Filter composer dialog (adding a filter will no longer re-apply filters to all of the current window, only to the element you opened the composer for)
- Context menu (behavior should be unchanged except for a recent regression fixed – handling of background images should be correct again)
- Tabs on Flash and Java (behavior should be unchanged)
- Blocking of redirects (I hope that the behavior is unchanged here)
I already noticed a side-effect: in Firefox 3.0/3.5 touching a node that is hidden causes element hiding rules to be reapplied. Since opening the list of blockable items touches nodes you might see hit count for element hiding rules go up when you do it. This issue is no longer present in Firefox 3.6.
Installation:
https://adblockplus.org/devbuilds/adblockplus/
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sen · 2010-08-28 11:21 · #
With this build 1.3a.20100826 & 1.3a.20100828, when you choose to “block this item” in the “blockable items window”, it will come up a window with blank field.
Reply from Wladimir Palant:
This obviously doesn’t happen for me – so a few more details would be nice (preferably in the forum, the blog isn’t meant for discussions). Which version of Firefox is that, which operating system? Any particular website where this happens or all of them? What other extensions are installed?
Reply from Wladimir Palant:
I fixed this issue, next development build (20100831) should work fine.
N.M · 2010-09-05 15:04 · #
Please, Bro! Do the Address-Bar button exactly like other. To show always the contour, not only when the cursor is on it…
Reply from Wladimir Palant:
I guess you mean the default theme in Firefox 4? Feel free to file a Mozilla bug on that – Adblock Plus doesn’t do any custom styling for that button and the default styling for that button type is just off now. Might be the theme being simply unfinished however.
N.M · 2010-09-15 16:36 · #
Well, thank you! I see that in latest Dev build has been fixed!