Adblock Plus and (a little) more
Welcome to Adblock Plus - here are your subscriptions · 2006-06-22 15:46 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
- 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
Notes
- The regexp mark is experimental, and the icon isn’t final. Please let me know whether you think this feature should be kept or not.
Known issues
Preferences dialog: regexp mark sometimes fails to load (Gecko/XUL cache issue)- Welcome dialog: Homepage links only work for two of the subscriptions
Comment [4]
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ariel · 2006-06-22 17:10 · #
Hi Wlad
Can you differentiate the changes in the list that are relevant to each release like you did in the forum?
thanks
Reply from Wladimir Palant:
Ok, I’ll try.
adum · 2006-06-22 17:17 · #
It works fine up to now. Some suggestions (mostly cosmetic):
* since the Apply button is really related to filters (individuals or subscriptions) perhaps it would be better placed near Add Filter button, instead of among OK and Cancel buttons.
* in the toolbar icon tooltip change “Active filters” text to “Main (or Three most) active filters” or something similar (it should be obvious if you compare the hit counts included, but just in case).
* in the new welcome window I would add some reference related to other possible filters, something like “you can also introduce the http address of any other filter subscription you prefer, or use extensions like Filterset.G.Updater or Dutchblock for not url static filtersets”. I know that you specify that these are recommended lists, but the absence of very well known filtersets references combined with a fast reading could give the false impression that ABP cannot work OK with other filtersets.
* two-three months ago you mentioned about a possible solution for hit count-sidebar information-whitelisting for element hiding. If it is possible (and not very difficult) I think it would be important to have at least a general indication of “element hiding applied” in the tooltip (even without specifying the filter or the number of hits) in order to detect false positives or debug problems caused by these kind of elements.
* and last (and probably least), please consider the possibility of including the new “stop sign” icons with this release.
Reply from Wladimir Palant:
Apply button: no, I don’t think it is better. At least on Windows the Apply button is always located between OK and Cancel, and logically it also belongs there.
Tooltip now says: “Most active filters”
I explicitely don’t want to point anybody to specialized extensions that are only required to download filter lists – that’s built-in functionality, and the user should know it is there. I might add a button “Add another subscription” however that should bring up the regular subscription dialog.
Element hiding: I am still not sure whether it is possible to do hit counts for element hiding. General information on the number of elements hidden on a page shouldn’t be a problem however, maybe it will make it into this release.
New icons: I do consider it. However, as I said before – when I change the icons I want to change to something better. I have to take some time and try to scale these icons down properly.
Reply from Wladimir Palant:
Sorry, my idea to implement hit counts for element hiding didn’t work. I will be looking for something else that can be done…
Fox · 2006-06-22 19:49 · #
I think exclamation mark icon as regexp mark is good, and color is now also good.
Matt Nordhoff / Peng · 2006-06-22 23:26 · #
I think the regular expression exclamation point is too big and scary and distracting. They’re regular expressions, not nuclear weapons.
However, I can’t think of anything better. A color doesn’t work, because whitelist filters can be regexes and they’re green.
Perhaps, well, the same thing, but a bit less scary. I dunno how that would be done, though. :P
Reply from Wladimir Palant:
I could say – in unexperienced hands they are just like nuclear weapons :)