Adblock Plus and (a little) more

What would be an Adblock Plus release without extended filter syntax? · 2006-06-23 18:31 by Wladimir Palant

A new Adblock Plus 0.7.0.2+ development build (2006062318) 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
• 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
• 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}]

Notes

• Adblock Plus 0.7.1 should be released next Friday.
• Locale is frozen for Adblock Plus 0.7.1 release, any changes taken now shouldn’t touch translated strings.
• The icon for the regexp mark isn’t final, feel free to submit suggestions.

Known issues

• Welcome dialog: Homepage links only work for two of the subscriptions
• Welcome dialog: There should be a button to add custom subscriptions

Tags: adblock plus development builds

Comment [2]

1. Fox · 2006-06-24 14:07 · #

   When i export filterlist that contains mms:// -filters, it does not comment that required version is Adblock Plus 0.7

   Reply from Wladimir Palant:

   Right, it only checks for syntax extensions introduced in Adblock Plus. I don’t think we can recognize reliably that a filter list uses protocol schemes older versions don’t know.

2. Fox · 2006-06-26 21:32 · #

   When i use welcome dialog and add subscriptions, i always get Failed download.
   Updating works and also that Add filter subscription.
   It’s just this welcome dialog.
   I did try to subscribe EasyList and my own url(but not at the same time).
   And i did try several times, every time it failes.
   (So yes i did delele filters and reset this:
   extensions.adblockplus.showsubscriptions

   My Dev build is 2006062318.

   Reply from Wladimir Palant:

   Argh! I’ve seen this behavior before but until now I couldn’t understand what is causing it. It seems that Gecko puts the request into the load group of the window and when the window is closed the request is aborted. This really shouldn’t work this way…

   Reply from Wladimir Palant:

   Fixed – and filed bug 342796

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