Adblock Plus and (a little) more

Adblock Plus 1.9.3 for Chrome, Opera and Safari release · 2015-09-22 17:23 by Thomas Greiner

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Install Adblock Plus 1.9.3 for Safari (Safari 6 or higher required)

This update contains mostly improvements to notifications based on feedback from previous tests.

Changes

Added new notification type for normal messages (issue 3022).
Decreased interval between icon animations (issue 3054).
Decreased delay for initial filter download (issue 284).
Added promotional message for Adblock Browser to the first-run page (issue 3031).

Chrome-only changes

Added opt-out button to Chrome desktop notifications (issue 3024).

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Adblock Browser 1.0 for Android and iOS released · 2015-09-08 11:15 by Felix Dahlke

Install Adblock Browser for Android or iOS

As previously announced, we’ve been working hard on Adblock Browser for Android and iOS over the past few months. I’m happy to announce that today is the day where we release it on both platforms.

Element Hiding Helper 1.3.4 released · 2015-09-01 16:00 by Wladimir Palant

Install Element Hiding Helper 1.3.4

This is a bugfix release, solving only one issue. Element Hiding Helper 1.3.3 didn’t work in older Firefox releases, this issue is now resolved.

Element Hiding Helper 1.3.3 released · 2015-08-13 14:46 by Wladimir Palant

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This release makes Element Hiding Helper compatible with Firefox 41 and above (fixes issue 2737 and issue 2816).

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Adblock Plus 2.6.10 for Firefox released · 2015-07-28 15:05 by Wladimir Palant

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This is a quality and stability release, with the focus being compatibility with upcoming Firefox versions. Most of the changes are under the hood, only the visible changes are listed:

suppress_first_run_page preference introduced by previous release can now be preconfigured by machine administrators via setting extensions.adblockplus.preconfigured.suppress_first_run_page Firefox preference (issue 2439).
Issue reporter
- Made sure there is always enough space to display report data (issue 344).
- No longer intercepting right-clicks on the resulting report link, only left- and middle-clicks result in the report being opened (issue 701).
Subscription links
- Implemented an alternative format that is easier to use in forums or emails: https://subscribe.adblockplus.org/?location=foo instead of abp:subscribe?location=foo (issue 2211).
- Fixed subscription links in multi-process Firefox (issue 1730)
Notifications
- Added global opt-out for notifications (issue 2192 and issue 2193).
- Notifications are shown immediately after download rather than waiting for a browser restart (issue 2419).
Removed inconsistent behavior (breaks backwards compatibility): exception rules starting with http:// or https:// no longer imply $document option (issue 2503).
Reduced the initial delay for filter lists and notification updates after browser startup (issue 284 and issue 2659).
First-run page: Fixed social buttons being broken starting with Firefox 38 (issue 2710).

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Adblock Plus 1.9.2 for Safari released · 2015-07-17 16:14 by Sebastian Noack

Install Adblock Plus 1.9.2 for Safari (Safari 6 or higher required)

We’ve just updated the release channel of Adblock Plus for Safari. There was only one minor change that was required in order to submit the extension to the new Safari Extension Gallery (issue 2796). Submitting Adblock Plus there is important to make sure that Safari 9 users receive automatic updates in the future.

Builds for Chrome and Opera were generated as well. But since there were no user-visible changes compared to the previous release, we didn’t upload these to their respective web stores.

Adblock Plus 1.9.1 for Chrome, Opera and Safari released · 2015-07-14 17:41 by Thomas Greiner

Install Adblock Plus 1.9.1 for Chrome
Install Adblock Plus 1.9.1 for Opera
Install Adblock Plus 1.9.1 for Safari (Safari 6 or higher required)

Changes

Added global opt-out for notifications (issue 2195).
Immediately show notifications after they were downloaded (issue 2419).
Reduced delay of initial download of notifications (issue 2659).
Fixed: Notification data was reset when pages load during extension intitialization (issue 2757).

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Adblock Plus 1.9 for Chrome, Opera and Safari released · 2015-06-16 14:30 by Sebastian Noack

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Install Adblock Plus 1.9 for Opera
Install Adblock Plus 1.9 for Safari (Safari 6 or higher required)

Changes

Fixed: Placeholders weren’t hidden for elements that were blocked by an URL given in the srcset attribute (issue 2634).
Exception rules with protocol don’t imply the $document flag anymore (issue 2503).
Changed the label for the share buttons to reflect the functionality more accurately (issue 2202).
Implemented an alternative format for subscription links (issue 2212).
Fixed some issues with the “Block element” dialog:
- Fixed some issues with element highlighting (issue 2077, issue 2209).
- Fixed some issues with dragging the dialog (issue 2100, issue 2173, issue 2194).
- Fixed issues with how the context menu interacted with other parts of the user interface (issue 2279, issue 2298).
- The page no longer freezes when selecting an element that would result in a lot of other elements being blocked as well (issue 2215).
Performance improvements:
- Mitigated the effect of slow request blocking filters (issue 2177).
- Determine whether a page or frame is whitelisted more efficiently by only matching exception rules (issue 2132).
- Moved code not crucial to blocking requests out of the critical path, decreasing load times (issue 2505).

Chrome/Opera-only changes

Changed the way Adblock Plus stores persistent data such as setting and filter lists, replacing localStorage and the deprecated FileSystem API with chrome.storage (issue 2021, issue 2040).
Run content scripts in anonymous frames again, in order to block ads more reliably (issue 2216, issue 2217).
Worked around a Chromium bug that caused corruption of the page layout when using the feedback dialog on Google Mail and other Google websites (issue 2602).
Fixed element hiding filters using CSS selectors with commas inside quoted text (issue 2467).
Don’t assume Chromium-specific user agent string, fixing issues when using --user-agent switch, or running on a different platform (issue 2537).
Performance improvements:
- Flush caches after filter changes only when absolutely necessary and respect the browser’s quotas (issue 2034, issue 2297).
- Improved the performance of CSS selector injection, slightly decreasing page load time, in particular on pages with many frames and/or many active element hiding filters (issue 2528).
- Avoid calling into JavaScript when processing headers when loading other resources than documents and frames (issue 2538).
- Got rid of some try..catch statements which prevent functions from being optimized (issue 2658, issue 2569).
- Avoid iteration over a hash-table which prevents functions from being optimized, slightly improving performance of element hiding filter matching (issue 2582).

Chrome-only changes

Added a pre-configurable preference to suppress the first run page (issue 1488).

Opera-only changes

Fixed: Spanish translation wasn’t being used (issue 2665).

Safari-only changes

Restored compatibility with Safari 6 (issue 2172).

Adblock Browser 1.0 for Android is in open beta · 2015-05-20 10:00 by Felix Dahlke

For the past few months, we’ve been working on a mobile browser with adblocking tightly integrated. Today we’re proud to announce the open beta of Adblock Browser for Android.

We’ve kept things secretive around Adblock Browser in the early phase, but like most of the things we do, it’s open source. We are now starting to make the repository, issues and code reviews public, and they’ll stay that way.

Adblock Plus 2.6.9 for Firefox released · 2015-03-31 23:56 by Wladimir Palant

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This is another quality and stability release:

Slightly optimized performance, domain-specific filters will no longer affect overall performance (issue 2177).
Added extensions.adblockplus.suppress_first_run_page preference to allow administrators disable the first-run page if Adblock Plus is installed globally (issue 206). Note that additional changes are required to make this preference usable.
Fixed: $elemhide filter option doesn’t consider website signatures correctly (issue 2151).