Adblock Plus and (a little) more

Tooltips fun · 2006-06-21 04:45 by Wladimir Palant

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

Installation

https://adblockplus.org/devbuilds/ (en-US only)

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
• 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

Notes

• The regexp mark is only an experiment, and the icon isn’t final. Please comment on whether you think this feature should be kept.

Known issues

• Preferences dialog: “Update subscription now” in the context menu stopped working
• Preferences dialog: “Update subscription now” in the context menu should have keyboard shortcut Ctrl+T

Tags: adblock plus development builds

Comment [1]

1. Fox · 2006-06-21 11:04 · #

   There is very tiny issue with Reg Exp exclamation mark.
   When i add Reg Exp 1st time this way:
   Click the preferences dialog OK button without exiting the inline editor.
   There is no exclamation mark, but it’s there when i restart firefox.

   I can reproduce this if i delete all reg exp’s, restart firefox and then add 1st Reg Exp that way.

   That exclamation mark is very good thing, but i think color red maybe signals that something is wrong with it.
   And black would be better i think.

   Reply from Wladimir Palant:

   Thank you. I had a little trouble reproducing the RegExp glitch but I got it now – this is an issue with Gecko’s XUL cache which I usually disable (makes developing easier). Found a workaround for this problem, I should report the bug to Gecko developers later. And I also changed the color of the exclamation mark.

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