Adblock Plus and (a little) more

Adblock Plus 1.0.1 released · 2009-01-10 18:30 by Wladimir Palant

Installation

multilingual build
single-language builds
K-Meleon builds

Major changes

• New translations: Icelandic, Kazakh
• Disabled filters are now displayed in list of blockable items and can be reenabled with one click
• Filters can be restricted to a domain with $domain=foo.com option (documentation)
• Improved start-up performance

Known issues

• Some translations contain untranslated English strings

detailed changelog

Tags: adblock plus releases

Comment [13]

1. ecjs · 2009-01-10 19:34 · #

   Start-up is so fast now. Wow, great job !
   Not to forget to thank the bug tracker !

2. Martin · 2009-01-10 20:01 · #

   Regular expressions don’t seem to work anymore. Please fix it.

   Reply from Wladimir Palant:

   Cannot confirm this, regular expressions actually work pretty well. I suggest you create a forum topic (no registration required) and post more details there – like Firefox version, operating system, which filter you try on which site and how exactly it doesn’t work.

   Reply from Wladimir Palant:

   Apparently, regular expressions with $domain option don’t work – they aren’t recognized as regular expressions. I fixed this (http://hg.mozdev.org/adblockplus/rev/16f8bb1e9101), guess Adblock Plus 1.0.2 will have to be released soon.

3. BenoitRen · 2009-01-11 19:05 · #

   I installed this version thinking it would fix the long “Adblock Plus Preferences” menuitem in the Tools menu, but I misread the comment about Adblock Plus 1.0 back then. :(

   So I hacked adblockplus.jar. Much better. :)

4. anonymous · 2009-01-12 18:06 · #

   Thanks you very much! The restriction to one/some domains only is a nice future.

5. 1 · 2009-01-12 22:01 · #

   v1.0.1 works great with K-Meleon. Thanks, Wladimir.

6. Kevin .Y · 2009-02-01 03:32 · #

   Hi, this is a great job, but Adblock plus meet a challenge at http://www.zshare.net, it blocks Adblock!!

   RgdS!

   Reply from Wladimir Palant:

   See http://adblockplus.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3264

7. anon · 2009-02-01 20:51 · #

   I reply to Kevin .Y Zshare blocks AB bcause it blocks adsense.js just whitelist the below address and you should be good:
   http://www.zshare.net/adsense.js
   I havn’t tryed the entire site but since the only line in the above file is “trap_active = false;” i can’t see it causing too much trouble.

   If anyone is interested here’s how it works (sorry if your not):

   Javascript sets the variable trap_active to true
   <script type=“text/javascript”><!—
   var trap_active = true;
   //—></script>

   the file adsense.js sets it false, if ANY program blocks this file trap_active reamins true.
   <script type=“text/javascript” src=”/adsense.js”></script>

   a simple check to see if trap_active is true means the above file wasn’t evaluated and it is ASSUMED an ad-blocking program is in effect.
   <script type=“text/javascript”><!—
   if (trap_active) { //var s = “Message displayed when ads are being blocked”; //document.getElementById(“a”).innerHTML = s; location.href=’/adsblocked.html’
   }
   //—></script>

   hense, whitlisting http://www.zshare.net/adsense.js allows adsense.js to evaluate while still allowing the rest of add block to block the adverts. In theory anyway (it appears to work)

8. Kevin .Y · 2009-02-02 16:06 · #

   Great to hear it’s fixed!

   While the priest climbs a post, the devil climbs ten :lol:

9. Jota.Ce · 2009-02-24 02:29 · #

   I’d like SeaMonkey 2.0b1pre support in next release, please.

   Not all people uses Firefox…

   Reply from Wladimir Palant:

   SeaMonkey is no different from other applications, please see http://adblockplus.org/en/getting_started_installation#incompatible

   I bumped maxVersion to 2.0b1 now, you should be able to install from addons.mozilla.org.

10. Jota.Ce · 2009-02-27 15:45 · #

    > “SeaMonkey is no different from other applications”

    Now it’s rather similar to Firefox inside, but i prefer SeaMonkey much better.

    Thanks for that “bumping”, i thought you needed to release a 1.01b version or something similar, just to freeze version releases.

    Thanks for your work also ;)

11. taylorchu · 2009-03-16 06:07 · #

    $third-party suggestion

    if domain is adblockplus.us.org

    $third-party should see domain as .adblockplus.

    not us.org

    Reply from Wladimir Palant:

    See http://publicsuffix.org/ – “us.org” is not a public suffix, consequently it is a second-level domain. “co.uk” is a public suffix, consequently “example.co.uk” is a second-level domain. Adblock Plus just uses that list, I’m not the one maintaining it.

12. Dmitry S. · 2009-04-11 10:53 · #

    Hello. Hardness me to be oriented on your site (I from Russia and badly know English), a place can to my question not here. Question: many additions for FireFox at pressure (on a panel) the left mouse button work as On\Off and for you all is difficult (through a menu). I personally am not important what objects of locked, more important quickly to change tactic and renew a page for viewing – clean. Beforehand Thank you to you.

    Reply from Wladimir Palant:

    Пользуйтесь средней клавишей мышки. Альтернативно можно изменить значение настройки extensions.adblockplus.defaulttoolbaraction: http://adblockplus.org/en/preferences#defaulttoolbaraction (где найти эти настройки: http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config)

13. Pavlos · 2009-04-12 19:23 · #

    Respect for the addon…Can you please update for TB 3.2b please? It is a necessary utility.

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