Adblock Plus and (a little) more
Adblock Plus 3.16.2 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera · 21 days ago by Thomas Greiner
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This release adds further information to pass along to the uninstall page (ui#1355).
Adblock Plus 3.16.1 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera · 54 days ago by Thomas Greiner
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This release turns off notifications for Adblock Plus Premium users that aren’t relevant to them (ui#1300).
Adblock Plus 3.16 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera · 63 days ago by Thomas Greiner
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This release includes further under-the-hood changes to make Adblock Plus compatible with Manifest v3, as well as some bug fixes.
User interface changes
- Made user interface compatible with Manifest v3 (ui#1069, ui#1190, ui#1249, ui#1276, ui#1277).
- Temporarily removed link behind the Premium label in the icon popup in order to reduce confusion (ui#1293).
- Fixed: Developer tools panel only showed one element hiding filter hit (ui#1309).
Filter changes
Upgraded EWE to 0.7.2 (release notes: 0.7.0, 0.7.1, 0.7.2) (ui#1183), which includes the following changes:
- Made functionality compatible with Manifest v3 (ewe#316, ewe#319, ewe#323, ewe#380).
- Implemented migration of user data from Manifest v2 to v3 (ewe#344, ewe#345, ewe#378).
- Upgraded adblockpluscore to 0.10.1 (release notes: 0.10.0, 0.10.1) (ewe#377, ewe#394).
Firefox-specific changes
- Fixed: Unable to report issues using the issue reporter (ui#1173).
Adblock Plus 3.15.2 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera · 117 days ago by Thomas Greiner
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This release fixes a problem that caused the “Block element” button to disappear from the icon popup (ui#1303). It also fixes a problem in 3.15.1 that prevented us from publishing it to the Firefox Add-ons store (ui#1306).
Adblock Plus 3.15.1 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera · 119 days ago by Thomas Greiner
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Snippet changes
Upgraded @eyeo/snippets to 0.5.5 (release notes: 0.5.4, 0.5.5), which includes the following changes:
- Made the
hide-if-graph-matchessnippet compatible with Manifest v3. - When
debugdirective is used,raceprovides the winner name when any snippet wins a race. - Fixed:
override-property-readsnippet broke when used with multiple non-existent references.
Adblock Plus 3.15 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera · 126 days ago by Thomas Greiner
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This release introduces Adblock Plus Premium with the Premium-exclusive Distraction Control functionality. It also includes significant under-the-hood changes to make Adblock Plus compatible with Manifest v3, as well as various important bug fixes.
User interface changes
- Introduced Adblock Plus Premium (ui#981, ui#985, ui#1139, ui#1200).
- Improved on how idle state is shown in icon popup (ui#842).
- Added filter validation error message when adding too many custom filters under Manifest v3 (ewe#243).
- Made user interface compatible with Manifest v3 (ui#1070, ui#1071, ui#1079, ui#1080, ui#1086).
- Fixed: Acceptable Ads survey dialog was flickering when disabling Acceptable Ads (ui#581).
- Fixed: When navigating from an allowlisted page, the toolbar icon continued to indicate that the page is allowlisted (ui#1120).
- Fixed: Filters with
$popupoption were not shown in developer tools panel (ui#1128, ewe#234).
Filter changes
Upgraded EWE to 0.6.1 (release notes: 0.5.0, 0.6.0, 0.6.1) (ui#1176, ui#1195, ui#1257), which includes the following changes:
- Snippet changes
- Upgraded @eyeo/snippets to 0.5.3 (release notes) (ui#1195).
- Made snippets compatible with Manifest v3 (ewe#143).
- Upgraded adblockpluscore to 0.9.1 (release notes: 0.8.0, 0.9.0, 0.9.1) (ewe#309, ewe#341).
- Fixed: Allowlisting filter with
$documentoption was not applied to aborted frames (ewe#230).
Chromium-specific changes
- Fixed: Acceptable Ads checkboxes had visual glitch in older Chromium versions (ui#1178).
Firefox-specific changes
- Fixed: Adblock Plus failed to initialize when using Firefox in Private Browsing mode (ui#1129, ewe#231, ewe#369).
Yandex Browser-specific changes
- Fixed: Adblock Plus failed to initialize when Yandex search page was open on browser start (ui#1160, ewe#309).
Adblock Plus 3.14.2 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera · 212 days ago by Thomas Greiner
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Snippet changes
Replaced abp-snippets with @eyeo/snippets and upgraded it to 0.5.2 (release notes: 0.5.0, 0.5.1, 0.5.2), which includes the following changes:
- Added
hide-if-contains-similar-textsnippet. - Removed
hide-if-contains-image-hashsnippet. - The
json-prunesnippet now exposes more details when thedebug;directive is added before its execution within the filter (e.g.#$#debug; json-prune ...). - The
hide-if-contains-visible-textsnippet now accepts-snippet-box-margin:xas an attribute, wherexshould be a number that represents the surrounding pixels margin. - Various performance improvements.
Adblock Plus 3.14.1 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera · 268 days ago by Thomas Greiner
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Snippet changes
Upgraded abp-snippets to 0.4.1 (update notes), which includes the following changes:
- Improved support and performance for running multiple snippets on the same page.
- Added
racesnippet directive for running only some of a given list of snippets.
e.g. example.com#$#race start; snippet 1 2 3; other 4 5 6; another 7 8 9; race stop;
- Added case insensitive matching support for snippet parameters.
e.g. #$#snippet /test/ can now be #$#snippet /test/i
- Changed
hide-if-contains-visible-textto ignore elements offset from user visible areas. - Changed
hide-if-contains-visible-textto support specifying an optional attribute array for CSS attributes that should be interpreted as hiding an element. - Fixed:
hide-if-shadow-containsdid not always use the expected target. - Fixed:
hide-if-graph-matchesdid not work properly on Chromium.
Adblock Plus 3.14 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera · 306 days ago by Thomas Greiner
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This release provides an experimental allowlisting API to some websites.
Changes
- Upgraded EWE to 0.4.1 (release notes: 0.3.0, 0.4.0, 0.4.1) (ui#1111, ui#1121), which includes the following changes:
- Enabled experimental allowlisting API for trusted partners (ui#1115).
- Fixed: Language names aren’t shown in settings page General tab (ui#976).
Adblock Plus 3.13 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera · 335 days ago by Thomas Greiner
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This release contains substantial under-the-hood changes in preparation for making the extension compatible with Manifest v3 later this year, as well as additional features for extended element hiding filters. It also drops support for some old browser versions, namely Chromium 76 and Firefox 62.
User interface changes
- Developer tools panel no longer reflects changes to filters that were made elsewhere while it’s open (ui#1003).
- Filters added via Block element dialog will only be applied after the page is reloaded (ui#1031).
- Developer tools panel now also shows unmatched top-level frame requests (ui#1060).
- Fixed: Developer tools panel no longer suggests allowlist filters for snippet filters (ui#1023).
Filter changes
Started using eyeo’s Web Extension Ad Blocking Toolkit (release notes: 0.1.0, 0.1.1, 0.2.0, 0.2.1), which includes the following changes:
- Upgraded adblockpluscore to 0.6.0 (release notes: 0.5.0, 0.5.1, 0.6.0), which includes the following changes:
- Added support for
:has()alias for:-abp-has()to extended element hiding filters (core#229). - Added support for
:has-text()alias for:-abp-contains()to extended element hiding filters (core#229). - Added support for
:xpath()to extended element hiding filters (core#308). - Added support for
:not()to extended element hiding filters (core#369). - Reject filters that are too broad (core#264, ui#1063).
- Indicate which filter option is invalid (core#305).
- Various performance improvements.
- Various bug fixes.
- Added support for
- Fixed: Elements for blocked requests in about:blank frames aren’t hidden (ewe#152, ui#961).
- Fixed: Page-specific filters remained active after URL was rewritten (ewe#109, ui#1037).
Other changes
- Replaced adblockpluscore with EWE (ui#972, ui#998, ui#1021, ui#1060, ui#1097).
- Fixed: Messages from content scripts are ignored unless they are known to be safe (ui#1092).
Chromium-specific changes
- Dropped support for Chromium 76 and below (ui#1028).
This includes Chrome 76, Microsoft Edge 76 and Opera 63.
Firefox-specific changes
- Dropped support for Firefox 62 and below (ui#1028).
Known issues
- When navigating from a page where Adblock Plus is disabled to one where it’s enabled, the toolbar icon doesn’t change (ui#1120).