$third-party option done · 5 days ago by Wladimir Palant
Changes
- New options $third-party and $~third-party restrict filters to third-party/first-party requests
- Subscription download: Next attempt after failed download is after one day now rather than after one hour (preference extensions.adblockplus.subscriptions_fallbackerrors adjusted accordingly)
- Fallback request can now disable automatic downloads for subscriptions that are no longer available
- Fixed: Preferences dialog doesn’t immediately display changes to “downloaded automatically” status
- Preferences: “Reset filter statistics” now resets “Last hit” as well
- Preferences: using more obvious image for “enabled” state (forum topic)
- Fixed: “Disable on this page only” won’t work for pages with query string
Simplified Preferences dialog · 9 days ago by Wladimir Palant
Changes
Added hidden preference extensions.adblockplus.usefiltercomposer to choose between filter composer and preferences dialog for adding of new filters (this preference might be removed later)- Preferences: Removed regular expressions warning and corresponding preference extensions.adblockplus.warnregexp (warning in composer and exclamation mark are enough)
- Preferences: Removed dropdown list from filter editor
- Preferences: Filter changes (with exception of element hiding) no longer apply immediately to the “current” window, this is only done for the composer
- Preferences: “Add subscription” now opens a list of subscriptions instead of the “custom subscription” dialog
- Fixed:Object tabs show up on print (bug 19405)
Known issues
Preferences window broken in SeaMonkey 1.1Exclamation mark tooltip is cut off in Firefox 2
More small improvements · 10 days ago by Wladimir Palant
Changes
- Made sure filter composer warns the user on regexps and too short filters
- Preferences: Showing exclamation mark for too short filters as well now
- Preferences: Added a tooltip explaining the meaning of the exclamation mark
- Fixed: Findbar in preferences dialog has no icons (Firefox 3)
- Mac OS X: Preferences menu changed into toolbar to make sure it stays inside the window (forum topic)
Known issues
Filter composer should have a help text for “custom pattern” fieldDetached sidebar doesn’t workComposer dialog doesn’t warn on regular expressions- Preferences window broken in SeaMonkey 1.1
- Exclamation mark tooltip is cut off in Firefox 2
Small improvements · 11 days ago by Wladimir Palant
Changes
- Moved warning that Adblock Plus is disabled from preferences to composer dialog, made it possible to enable with a single click
- Blockable items: Tooltip now shows the filter subscription name in addition to the filter
- Blockable items: Added “Copy filter” item to the context menu
- Blockable items: Multiple selection and copying of multiple addresses/filters now possible
- Blockable items: Added “Select all” item to the context menu
- Fixed: Dates in Preferences window would sometimes use wrong character encoding (bug 441370)
- Preferences: pasting filters that contain spaces (especially comments) now possible (bug 18920)
Known issues
Filter composer should warn if Adblock Plus is disabledFilter composer won’t work in Firefox 2Clicks on the status bar icon are ignored- Detached sidebar doesn’t work
- Composer dialog doesn’t warn on regular expressions
Introducing filter composer · 12 days ago by Wladimir Palant
Only en-US locale is available at the moment.
Changes
- Added new filter composer dialog that is opened to add a new filter
- Added hidden preference extensions.adblockplus.usefiltercomposer to choose between filter composer and preferences dialog for adding of new filters (this preference might be removed later)
- Blockable items: Changed default action for blocked items to “add exception rule” instead of “edit filter”
- Fixed: Subscriptions are sometimes loaded from browser cache
- Added hidden preference extensions.adblockplus.savestats to allow turning off hit statistics (useful if patterns.ini is put into a version control system)
- Firefox 1.5, Thunderbird 1.5 and SeaMonkey 1.0 are no longer supported
- Flock 1.2 is supported now
- Cleaned up some backwards compatibility hacks
- Removed ancient drag&drop handling code (not discoverable and not advertised anywhere)
Known issues
- Filter composer should warn if Adblock Plus is disabled
- Filter composer should have a help text for “custom pattern” field
- Filter composer won’t work in Firefox 2
- Clicks on the status bar icon are ignored
Improving Songbird compatibility once again · 50 days ago by Wladimir Palant
The changes in these development builds concern only Songbird users.
Changes
- Fixed: Adblock Plus only works with the default Songbird feathers (Songbird bug 8785)
- Removed support for Songbird 0.4, added support for Songbird 0.6
Known issues
Songbird: Context menu doesn’t always show up in Songbird, consequently not all items can be blocked via context menu
Another release candidate - now with all translations · 90 days ago by Wladimir Palant
This is a release candidate for Adblock Plus 0.7.5.4. This time all locales are included but some might contain English strings.
Changes
- Hebrew (he-IL) and Malay (ms-MY) translations added
- Fixed: Keyboard shortcut to close detached list of blockable items is not configurable
Preparing to release Adblock Plus 0.7.5.4 · 91 days ago by Wladimir Palant
Changes
- Default keyboard shortcuts have been changed to avoid conflicts in Firefox 3 and Thunderbird
- Remove “Check banner links” option (forum thread)
- Content policy now returns “blocked based on server” to trigger special handling in Firefox 3
“Flash borders” in list of blockable elements will stay longer (forum thread)
Known issues
K-Meleon: Context menu entries not always shown- K-Meleon: Not working with K-Meleon 1.5 Alpha 2 due to a K-Meleon bug (bug 978)
Adblock Plus Watcher: first try · 103 days ago by Wladimir Palant
Adblock Plus Watcher can be opened either from the Adblock Plus menu or with the Ctrl+Shift+M keyboard shortcut. It will show all requests processed by Adblock Plus and some technical information in a list that can be filtered as necessary.
Note: This is a diagnostic extension meant mostly for investigating of Adblock Plus related issues. It will be useless to most.
More Firefox 3 fixes · 105 days ago by Wladimir Palant
Changes
- Whitelisting rules now apply to element hiding rules as well (bug 14814) (won’t work properly in Firefox 3, see known issues)
- Added support for new content types previously listed as “other” (Firefox 3 only): XBL bindings, link pings, XML HTTP requests, object subrequests and DTDs (corresponding filter options are xbl, ping, xmlhttprequest, object-subrequest and dtd respectively)
- Fixed: Error messages when inserting filters in Preferences
- Fixed: Account for new XUL iframe behavior in Firefox 3 (documents load in invisible iframes as well now)
Known issues
- Element hiding hits are not always registered in Firefox 3, this always prevents whitelisting rules to apply to element hiding
Songbird: Status bar icon doesn’t react to clicks (Songbird bug 6719)