Adblock Plus and (a little) more

$third-party option done · 2008-06-30 04:03 by Wladimir Palant

A new Adblock Plus 0.7.5.5+ development build (2008063001) has been uploaded. Only en-US locale is available at the moment.

Installation

https://adblockplus.org/devbuilds/

Changes

• Added new filter composer dialog that is opened to add a new filter
• Moved warning that Adblock Plus is disabled from preferences to composer dialog, made it possible to enable with a single click
• Blockable items: Changed default action for blocked items to “add exception rule” instead of “edit filter”
• Blockable items: Tooltip now shows the filter subscription name in addition to the filter
• Blockable items: Added “Copy filter” item to the context menu
• Blockable items: Multiple selection and copying of multiple addresses/filters now possible
• Blockable items: Added “Select all” item to the context menu
• Fixed: Subscriptions are sometimes loaded from browser cache
• Added hidden preference extensions.adblockplus.savestats to allow turning off hit statistics (useful if patterns.ini is put into a version control system)
• Firefox 1.5, Thunderbird 1.5 and SeaMonkey 1.0 are no longer supported
• Flock 1.2 is supported now
• Cleaned up some backwards compatibility hacks
• Removed ancient drag&drop handling code (not discoverable and not advertised anywhere)
• Fixed: Dates in Preferences window would sometimes use wrong character encoding (bug 441370)
• Preferences: Pasting filters that contain spaces (especially comments) now possible (bug 18920)
• About dialog: Made it possible to select and copy version number
• Made sure filter composer warns the user on regexps and too short filters
• Preferences: Showing exclamation mark for too short filters as well now
• Preferences: Added a tooltip explaining the meaning of the exclamation mark
• Preferences: Removed regular expressions warning and corresponding preference extensions.adblockplus.warnregexp (warning in composer and exclamation mark are enough)
• Preferences: Removed dropdown list from filter editor
• Preferences: Filter changes (with exception of element hiding) no longer apply immediately to the “current” window, this is only done for the composer
• Preferences: “Add subscription” now opens a list of subscriptions instead of the “custom subscription” dialog
• Fixed: Findbar in preferences dialog has no icons (Firefox 3)
• Mac OS X: Preferences menu changed into toolbar to make sure it stays inside the window (forum topic)
• Fixed:Object tabs show up on print (bug 19405)
• New options $third-party and $~third-party restrict filters to third-party/first-party requests
• Subscription download: Next attempt after failed download is after one day now rather than after one hour (preference extensions.adblockplus.subscriptions_fallbackerrors adjusted accordingly)
• Fallback request can now disable automatic downloads for subscriptions that are no longer available
• Fixed: Preferences dialog doesn’t immediately display changes to “downloaded automatically” status
• Preferences: “Reset filter statistics” now resets “Last hit” as well
• Preferences: using more obvious image for “enabled” state (forum topic)
• Fixed: “Disable on this page only” won’t work for pages with query string

Tags: adblock plus development builds

Comment [9]

1. chewey · 2008-06-30 21:14 · #

   Boyohboyohboyohboy… This is increadibly great news!

   I’m off to test *$script,third-party now…

2. chewey · 2008-06-30 22:44 · #

   I love it already. Just as a clarification, what is considered third party by that switch?

   is foo.bar.baz third party to bar.baz?
   is bar.baz third party to foo.bar.baz?

   Reply from Wladimir Palant:

   Everything under the same domain is first-party. So bar.com and foo.bar.com are first-party, just like bar.co.uk and foo.bar.co.uk. However, foo.com and bar.com are third-party. Note that the trick with co.uk doesn’t work in Firefox 2/SeaMonkey 1.1, it doesn’t know how to recognize an “effective TLD” – so anything under co.uk is first-party.

3. Alan Baxter · 2008-07-15 07:03 · #

   I finally installed the dev version over 0.7.5.5. Lots of great changes! Thank you for doing such good work. :D

4. HUGH M. O'CONNELL, JR · 2008-09-16 07:14 · #

   I downloaded adblockplus and it was installed with Mozilla. Now when I go to Mozilla, I’ve lost all the info that is normally on the homepage of my mailbox and I can’t get it back. I’ve tried reinstalling Mozilla and same thing. What’s the problem??
   Please advise.
   Thanks

   HughO

   Reply from Wladimir Palant:

   You probably have a bad filter in your list. Click the ABP icon in the toolbar, it will open the list of blockable items. The items in red are blocked – you probably have most of them blocked by the same filter. Just double-click the line, click the green dot on the filter in Preferences (disable it) and click OK.

   If that doesn’t solve your problem please ask in the forum, no registration required. The blog isn’t meant for longer conversations.

5. Imre Koós · 2008-10-26 11:37 · #

   Wladimir, do you have a release roadmap? When will this feature get into the stable? I need it so badly.

   Reply from Wladimir Palant:

   No roadmap, sorry – when a release is ready depends largely on my spare time. The thing that was mostly holding it off was the redesign of Adblock Plus core, and I made huge progress on that in the last few days. I expect to have a new development build ready in a day or two and a release candidate in about two weeks. But, as usually, these estimates are subject to change and delay.

6. tiik · 2008-12-03 01:45 · #

   I suggest to have $subdomain

   Reply from Wladimir Palant:

   Want to explain some more?

7. tiik · 2008-12-03 09:03 · #

   ex $~subdomain will not block mail.google.com in google.com

   Reply from Wladimir Palant:

   $third-party already does that. For *.google.com all requests going to google.com are considered first-party.

8. tiik · 2008-12-03 09:08 · #

   besides,$third-party is not “real” third party because some sites use sub-domain website to store images.

   I suggest $third-party should not include sub-domain websites.

9. tiik · 2008-12-03 09:23 · #

   how about abcnewshttp://abcnews.go.com/

   i think this http://a.abcnews.com/assets/js/animation.js should also be considered as “first-party”.then “$third-party” can be much more useful.

   Reply from Wladimir Palant:

   Yes, a.abcnews.com is considered third-party on this site, because it is.

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