Adblock Plus and (a little) more
Adblock Plus 1.2 for Internet Explorer released · 2014-08-13 12:14 by Oleksandr Paraska
Install Adblock Plus 1.2 for Internet Explorer
It has been a long while since our previous release for Internet Explorer. We have been busy tweaking and tuning and fixing different aspects of the Internet Explorer extension for this release. There were quite a few bumps along the way which caused delays. To speedup the development we’ve made a decision to drop support for IE6 and IE7. So currently IE versions 8 to 11 are supported. In case of IE6 and IE7 Adblock Plus for Internet Explorer should still run, with minor glitches though which we are not planning to fix. Luckily, after a bunch of devbuilds we are now ready for a public release.
In this release we’ve resolved a wide range of issues. While you can look up the full list of issued fixed in our issue tracker, the most important changes are:
- Full support of Enhanced Protected Mode
- Acceptable Ads are now supported
- Improved installer. Made it multilingual. And it will now be able to detect if IE is opened and close if needed.
- Fixed incorrect blocking of videos on a wide range of websites
- Fixed a lot of stability issues
- Fixed incorrect blocking of non-ad content
- ABP should not be triggering “Only secure content is displayed” warning message anymore
It is worth mentioning that there are also a few known issues we still need to tackle, most important being “ads on Google Search sometimes aren’t hidden”. This issue can be reproduced no matter whether Acceptable Ads are enabled or disabled, so it may cause some confusion which is why we are planning to fix it ASAP (in the next few weeks).
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mapx · 2014-08-13 12:48 · #
the main page for IE is still pointing to the previous 1.1
https://adblockplus.org/en/internet-explorer
https://downloads.adblockplus.org/adblockplusie-1.1.exe
Reply from Felix Dahlke:
Points to 1.2 for me – reloading should do the trick.
mapx · 2014-08-13 14:07 · #
now it’s ok.
ah23 · 2014-08-13 17:12 · #
Awesome update! having it run in Enhanced Protected Mode is outstanding. I’ve found that IE has oddly enough been the most stable browser for me since the release of Windows 8, I couldn’t switch to it though because my ABP wasn’t coming with me. This addon is a MUST have for any browser.
Now if we could only have it in the Metro IE my life would be complete :)
Eduard · 2014-08-13 19:03 · #
Thanks works perfect IE11
Sargon · 2014-08-13 19:19 · #
There still appears to be an issue with deviantart.com
Each post there usually has “download”, “add to favourites” etc. buttons on the right side, however when using ABP those button only appear there for a second or so while the page is still loading and then it kind of gets hidden behind an empty ad frame.
Here’s a random link for example: http://samouel.deviantart.com/art/Glacial-Sword-111865936
(This is only an issue with IE ABP, works fine with ABP on Firefox)
Other than that it appears to be working flawlessly.
I do wish the ABP button was in the “Command bar”, like Microsoft’s addons, instead of the “Status Bar”, but that’s not that big of an issue.
mapx · 2014-08-13 19:23 · #
“the Metro version of IE does not use any addons except Flash. Considering that’s a big staple of mobile devices these days, that likely won’t change and is why you still have access to desktop IE.”
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-networking/ie-add-ons-are-disabled-while-using-metro/6df4e5ff-3d8d-4fd9-923b-4310984765cf
julie · 2014-08-14 02:01 · #
thanks for making this, i was wondering when an update for IE would come. i would check this site from time to time, so when i saw that there was an update, i was very happy.
Oliver · 2014-08-14 09:48 · #
Hey, is it possible to disable the “update notification”?
André · 2014-08-14 11:36 · #
I got a crash when closing the IE with this version:
PROCESS_NAME: iexplore.exe
ERROR_CODE: (NTSTATUS) 0xc0000005 – Die Anweisung in 0x%08lx verweist auf Speicher 0x%08lx. Der Vorgang %s konnte nicht im Speicher durchgef hrt werden.
EXCEPTION_CODE: (NTSTATUS) 0xc0000005 – Die Anweisung in 0x%08lx verweist auf Speicher 0x%08lx. Der Vorgang %s konnte nicht im Speicher durchgef hrt werden.
EXCEPTION_PARAMETER1: 00000000
EXCEPTION_PARAMETER2: 00a7a728
READ_ADDRESS: 00a7a728
FOLLOWUP_IP:
ieframe!CIEFrameAuto::_ActivatePendingNavigateContext+77
73e7cbb7 e9a8520000 jmp ieframe!CIEFrameAuto::_ActivatePendingNavigateContext+0×17 (73e81e64)
NTGLOBALFLAG: 400
APPLICATION_VERIFIER_FLAGS: 0
APP: iexplore.exe
BUGCHECK_STR: APPLICATION_FAULT_INVALID_POINTER_READ_SHUTDOWN
PRIMARY_PROBLEM_CLASS: INVALID_POINTER_READ_SHUTDOWN
DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID: INVALID_POINTER_READ_SHUTDOWN
STACK_TEXT:
00 ntdll!NtWaitForMultipleObjects
01 KERNELBASE!WaitForMultipleObjectsEx
02 kernel32!WerpReportFaultInternal
03 kernel32!WerpReportFault
04 kernel32!BasepReportFault
05 KERNELBASE!UnhandledExceptionFilter
06 ntdll!__RtlUserThreadStart
07 ntdll!_EH4_CallFilterFunc
08 ntdll!_except_handler4_common
09 ntdll!_except_handler4
0a ntdll!ExecuteHandler2
0b ntdll!ExecuteHandler
0c ntdll!KiUserExceptionDispatcher
0d combase!CStdMarshal::ReleaseAllIPIDEntries
0e combase!CStdMarshal::{dtor}
0f combase!CStdIdentity::{dtor}
10 combase!CStdIdentity::CInternalUnk::Release
11 combase!IUnknown_Release_Proxy
12 ieframe!CIEFrameAuto::_ActivatePendingNavigateContext
13 ieframe!CIEFrameAuto::~CIEFrameAuto
14 ieframe!CIEFrameAuto::`vector deleting destructor’
15 ieframe!CAggregatedUnknown::CUnkInner::Release
16 ieframe!CIEFrameAuto::Release
WARNING: Stack unwind information not available. Following frames may be wrong.
17 AdblockPlus32!OnUpdate
18 AdblockPlus32!OnUpdate
19 AdblockPlus32!OnUpdate
1a AdblockPlus32!OnUpdate
1b IEShims!CShimBindings::DllMainHook
1c IEShims!CShimBindings::s_DllMainHook
1d ntdll!LdrxCallInitRoutine
1e ntdll!LdrpCallInitRoutine
1f ntdll!LdrShutdownProcess
20 ntdll!RtlExitUserProcess
21 kernel32!ExitProcessImplementation
22 msvcrt!__crtExitProcess
23 msvcrt!_initterm
24 msvcrt!exit
25 iexplore!__wmainCRTStartup
26 kernel32!BaseThreadInitThunk
27 ntdll!__RtlUserThreadStart
28 ntdll!_RtlUserThreadStart
SYMBOL_NAME: ieframe!CIEFrameAuto::_ActivatePendingNavigateContext+77
IMAGE_NAME: ieframe.dll
FAILURE_BUCKET_ID: INVALID_POINTER_READ_SHUTDOWN_c0000005_ieframe.dll!CIEFrameAuto::_ActivatePendingNavigateContext
BUCKET_ID: APPLICATION_FAULT_INVALID_POINTER_READ_SHUTDOWN_ieframe!CIEFrameAuto::_ActivatePendingNavigateContext+77
ANALYSIS_SOURCE: UM
FAILURE_ID_HASH_STRING: um:invalid_pointer_read_shutdown_c0000005_ieframe.dll!cieframeauto::_activatependingnavigatecontext
Loaded symbol image file: AdblockPlus32.dll Image path: C:\Program Files\Adblock Plus for IE\AdblockPlus32.dll Image name: AdblockPlus32.dll Browse all global symbols functions data Timestamp: Tue Aug 12 16:40:59 2014 (53EA277B) CheckSum: 000A2B17 ImageSize: 0009B000 File version: 1.2.0.0 Product version: 1.2.0.0 File flags: 0 (Mask 3F) File OS: 4 Unknown Win32 File type: 2.0 Dll File date: 00000000.00000000 Translations: 0409.04b0 CompanyName: Adblock Plus ProductName: Adblock Plus InternalName: Adblock Plus OriginalFilename: AdblockPlus.dll ProductVersion: 1.2.0 FileVersion: 1.2.0 FileDescription: Adblock Plus Module LegalCopyright: Copyright 2013James Inglis · 2014-08-14 14:25 · #
After installing the update my preferred browser I.E.8 kept crashing when trying to log into forums where I block all ads.
Using system restore to go back to before the update fixed this for me. I will not be installing any more updates
KG · 2014-08-14 21:34 · #
After upgrading to 1.2, in IE11 (32-bit and 64-bit) on Windows 7 64-bit, many websites do not work properly; specifically, the page displays briefly, then it jumps to an ads website, which is blocked and does not display. It used to do that very rarely with version 1.1, but now it is very common. The same websites display fine (with AB enabled) on Chrome.
booozzzy · 2014-08-15 04:57 · #
my preferred browser I.E8 (v. 8.0.7601.17514.64 Bit) kept crashing after update (my choice was block all).
I see in Prgram and Functions that both AdBlock Plus versions are inastalled. After deinstalling 1.2 version and repair 1.1 version works my IE fine.
Dan · 2014-08-16 09:47 · #
Fantastic, love ABP-IE! Please keep releasing updates more often instead of six months apart.
Andrew · 2014-08-17 20:17 · #
Returned to version 1.1, more compatible with IE8. With v1.2 the Page Back / Page Forward list was littered with ad urls, making the back/forward functionality useless.
For instance, in version 1.1 if I start on Page A, then link to Page B, then Page C – only those three urls show in the Page Back/Forward list, and I can go forward and backward repeatedly to each page in order. V1.1 never added the urls of blocked ads to this list of pages.
In v1.2, I start on Page A, link to Page B, then Page C. When I use Back to return to Page B, Page C is removed from the list, replaced by several ad urls, in fact the Forward button is grayed out as there is no longer an url to go Forward to.
If I try to Page Back to Page A , it just stays on Page B until it has worked thru all the blocked ad urls – I’ve had as many as five on one page.
When I finally make it back to Page A, once again there is a list of blocked ad urls and Page B has been removed from the list.
I didn’t do a lot of experimentation, but I believe the ad urls were only added when the Page Back function was used, not when originally linking to a page, As an ex-software quality control officer I should have done more testing before reverting back to the old version. Sorry.
Hope this explanation makes sense, and the issue is addressable so you can keep blocked urls from showing up in the back/forward list, as in v1.1
Danny · 2014-08-18 20:22 · #
Thanks works perfect IE11 :)
taara · 2014-08-30 10:23 · #
just found out:
IE Metro -> settings -> privacy -> Add Tracking Protection Lists -> add one -> be happy with metro without commercials
spaniard · 2014-08-30 14:14 · #
Thanks for the update, it no longer crash as it used to happen with the previous version on IE11
Remy · 2014-09-05 08:12 · #
Ads by google are back everywhere even if i uncheck the “Allow some non-intrusive advertising” box, now i have to watch a 3 minutes long advert to watch a 1 minute video on youtube thanks to this update… bad, really bad.
LunaB · 2014-09-08 16:08 · #
Updated to 1.2 and now notice that many sites simply flash by and then “This page can’t be displayed” appears. Where are the previous releases kept?