Adblock Plus and (a little) more

Weave support moved into a separate extension · 2009-05-31 19:08 by Wladimir Palant

A new Adblock Plus 1.1.alpha+ development build (2009053116) has been uploaded. This development build removes Weave support which has been moved into a separate extension.

Installation

https://adblockplus.org/devbuilds/

Changes

• Dropped compatibility with old browsers and cleaned up the code, now requiring at least: Firefox 3.0.9, SeaMonkey 2.0b1, Thunderbird 3.0b3, Songbird 1.1, Prism 1.0
• Added handling of redirects, the redirect address now shows up in “Blockable items” as well and can be blocked
• Added experimental Weave support to synchronize Adblock Plus filters and preferences across computers/profiles.
• Added explicit support for blocking fonts (@font-type CSS directive in Firefox 3.5)
• Added support for flexible anchors at start of filter: ||example.com/foo/ will match http://example.com/foo/bar and http://test.example.com/foo/bar but not http://badexample.com/foo/bar or http://evilsite.com/?http://example.com/foo/bar (forum topic)
• Added support for ^ character that will match a single separator character or end of address (forum topic)
• Filter composer: Added flexible anchors as an option (“at the beginning of domain name”) (forum topic)
• Filter composer: Added “example.com^” as fourth suggestion (forum topic)
• Filter composer: Added warning when adding a filter to a disabled filter group (forum topic)
• Started refactoring of browser integration code which runs in its own context now
• Changed the way “add subscription” links work, these can now only be triggered by user clicking a link
• Added diagnostic page displaying all errors related to Adblock Plus: chrome://adblockplus/content/errors.html
• Blockable items: Added “document source” column (domain name to be used for the $domain filter option, forum topic)
• Preferences: “slow filter” warning is now a separate list column which can be used for sorting
• Preferences: “close” button moved to the right side of the filter editor, made the button use Firefox 3 look
• Preferences: improved position calculations for the filter editor, no longer makes the text position change
• Preferences: using browser’s real find bar now instead of faking it
• Preferences: fixed slowdown when enabling/disabling many element hiding rules
• Preferences: insert imported comments before the filter that follows them (forum topic)
• Fixed: ABP icon updates its status every two seconds, hogs CPU time
• Fixed: opening Preferences in current Firefox nightlies selects wrong tree row (worked around bug 489881)
• Fixed: detection of background images breaks the context menu in Firefox nightlies
• Fixed: an error is reported to console on first run (patterns.ini not found)

Known issues

• Current Element Hiding Helper release won’t work (EHH development build is available)

Source code revision: 2540895d6509

Tags: adblock plus development builds

Comment [1]

1. akma · 2009-11-15 21:52 · #

   how to restore the previous advertisement that I’ve block using ABP? help me pls.

   Reply from Wladimir Palant:

   See https://adblockplus.org/en/getting_started#false-positives

   Generally, I recommend asking for help in the forum. No registration required, simply click “New topic”.

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