Adblock Plus and (a little) more

Adblock Plus 0.7.1 released · 2006-07-01 10:30 by Wladimir Palant

Installation

multilingual build
single-language builds

Major changes

  • New Preferences dialog layout makes adding new filters easier
  • Filter changes can be applied without closing Preferences dialog
  • Toolbar icon’s tooltip gives a quick overview about activity on the current page (number of blocked items, total number of items, most applied filters)
  • Toolbar icon indicates a whitelisted page
  • Exported filter lists contain the minimal required Adblock Plus version
  • Subscription download respects HTTP headers like “Last-Modified” and “Expires”

detailed changelog

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Comment [9]

  1. Premier · 2006-07-01 16:12 · #

    Hi Wladimir Palant,

    adblockplus-0.7.1-ja.xpi is nothing.
    Why?
    adblockplus-0.7.1-ja-JP.xpi?
    Isn’t the problem in upload or link?

    Premier

    Reply from Wladimir Palant:

    Thanks, I fixed the link.

  2. Premier · 2006-07-03 18:21 · #

    Download OK!
    Thanks!

  3. Peter · 2006-07-07 13:02 · #

    0.7.1 gives me 100% cpu usage when blocking a shockwave ad.
    strangely, the ad that’s being blocks flickers at high speed.
    it’s like adblock is constantly fighting it or so.
    the previous version was fine.

    Reply from Wladimir Palant:

    On which web page?

    Reply from Wladimir Palant:

    On the other hand, with Lucas’ testcase below – there seems to be something wrong here. I’m testing…

  4. Peter · 2006-07-07 13:51 · #

    Sorry I didn’t check enough, it’s only on this webpage, others seem good:
    http://www.mobileplaza.nl/Prod.asp?ProdID=4264

    Reply from Wladimir Palant:

    This seems to be caused by another Flash object: http://www.mobileplaza.nl/flash/wksites234×60.swf
    It seems that it tries to reload the banner all the time or something like this. If I block it everything is fine again.

  5. Steve · 2006-07-12 11:54 · #

    Doesn’t work with the new Firefox 2.0b1 release. Any chance of releasing a minor revision that does? Thanks!

    Reply from Wladimir Palant:

    It does work fine with Firefox 2.0b1, see http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=2361526#2361526. I’ll probably make a minor release in the next few days anyway.

  6. Lucas · 2006-07-13 03:43 · #

    i have the same problem as Peter, 100% CPU, but on bbc’s radio 1 site
    www.bbc.co.uk/radio1

    Reply from Wladimir Palant:

    Yes, there seems to be some problem. I’m looking into it.

  7. Peter · 2006-07-13 13:03 · #

    Indicating a whitelisted page with the toolbar icon is useful.
    How about extending this feature to distinct between no blocking or existing blocks on the page.

    Whatfor? If I don’t expect blocks (e.g. on a university page), but the icon indicates blocking, it would be a good hint that I had missconfigured my filter list.

    The icon indicating no blocking should be different from the “whitelisted page” icon (maybe just using black instead of green in the ring, resulting in a zero?)

    What do you think?

    Reply from Wladimir Palant:

    That’s something I would like to have as well but so far nobody proposed a good icon. A black ring really isn’t intuitive.

  8. houston · 2006-07-14 21:08 · #

    Doesn’t work adblock plus 0.7.1 with the new Firefox 2.0b1 if install adblock plus 0.5.11.4 this version good work with the new Firefox 2.0b1

    Reply from Wladimir Palant:

    It does work fine with Firefox 2.0b1, see http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=2361526#2361526

  9. Phil Pishioneri · 2006-07-17 00:09 · #

    Seems to work for me on Firefox 2.0b1, but outputs this message to the terminal:

    Adblock Plus: abp.QI to an unknown interface: {a6cf906b-15b3-11d2-932e-00805f8add32}

    (doesn’t happen with FF 1.5.0.x)

    Reply from Wladimir Palant:

    Thanks, I’ll check. That is generally not a problem, just a notice that Firefox sends an unknown request at the content policy (one that should probably be ignored anyway).

    Reply from Wladimir Palant:

    Fixed this, the message shouldn’t come any more. Unfortunately too late for the 0.7.1.1 release, but the next release will contain this fix.

    Reply from Wladimir Palant:

    I thought better about it and replaced 0.7.1.1 in AMO’s queue by a new build, so this issue will be fixed in the release.

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