Adblock Plus and (a little) more

Element hiding counters done · 2007-02-05 01:20 by Wladimir Palant

A new Adblock Plus 0.7.2.4+ development build (2007020500) has been uploaded.

Installation

https://adblockplus.org/devbuilds/

Changes

• Made matching element hiding rules appear in the list of blockable items
• Added hit counts for element hiding rules
• Added collapse and ~collapse filter options to override the global “Collapse blocked elements” option (the filter */banners/*$collapse will always collapse elements, */banners/*$~collapse will never collapse)
• Replaced icons in the sidebar’s “State” column to make them better recognizable by colorblind people (opinions are welcome)
• Removed useless “Block remote ads in local pages” option together with the corresponding extensions.adblockplus.blocklocalpages preference (forum thread)
• Removed extensions.adblockplus.localschemes preference (generally blocking on all content pages now)
• Removed “Not a remote page” message in sidebar and preferences dialog to be more consistent
• No longer filling the list with default filters when patterns.ini doesn’t exist, offering subscriptions should be enough (extensions.adblockplus.patterns preference removed)
• Removed extensions.adblockplus.checkedadblockprefs and extensions.adblockplus.checkedadblocksync preferences (Adblock’s preferences are now only imported when patterns.ini doesn’t exist yet)
• Removed extensions.adblockplus.grouporder preference (hardcoded now, no point in having this as a preference)
• Removed extensions.adblockplus.linktypes preference (using a more general approach to recognize nodes that can have links)
• Removed extensions.adblockplus.blocktypes preference (rules like *$stylesheet can be used to prevent a particular type from being blocked)
• Removed mostly useless extensions.adblockplus.noncollapsabletypes preference
• Removed exceptions for about:blank
• Now ignoring effectively empty rows/cols attributes when collapsing frames in a frameset
• Fixed: items with same address but different type always appear as one item in the list

Tags: adblock plus development builds

Comment [2]

1. rick752 · 2007-02-05 04:32 · #

   Wladimir, this is absolutely AWESOME! You are a genius! Lot of changes but not 0.7.3?

   So far, so good. ABP still seems to be fast. Wow, I’m impressed. This is great.

   Reply from Wladimir Palant:

   Actually, I think that I will add some more changes and then this will become either 0.7.3 or 0.8.

2. Wenzel Ribbens · 2007-02-05 05:23 · #

   I love the new Elementpart :D Just awesome! I was waiting for this for centuries, and now it’s here :D

   Let’s party!!!

   PS: What kind of new changes will there come?

   Reply from Wladimir Palant:

   There are some things that have been in my queue for a while: allow subscriptions to move around by supporting permanent redirects, ability to unblock items without reloading the page and disabling special filter groups like “Advertisement filters”.

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