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Asynchronous file operations, end of support for old browsers · 2012-04-05 16:28 by Wladimir Palant

Starting with Adblock Plus 2.0.4b.3443 reading and saving of patterns.ini and elemhide.css files will be asynchronous (meaning that they won’t delay other operations that Firefox or Adblock Plus might need to do). This approach has a bunch of advantages:

There are also some drawbacks which is why it took so long to make this decision:

Known issues (should be fixed soon):

In other news, support for anything before Firefox 8, Thunderbird 8 and SeaMonkey 2.5 has been dropped. I started cleaning up our code using the new platform capabilities and will continue doing so. Also, a work-around for the subscription download issue in Firefox 14 has been implemented.

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Upcoming and past changes to application compatibility · 2012-03-16 08:02 by Wladimir Palant

Starting with version 2.0 Adblock Plus requires at least Firefox 3.6.13 to be installed (or Thunderbird 3.1.7 or SeaMonkey 2.1). We really don’t support earlier Firefox 3.6 versions because of a critical bug that will cause Flash to break. Unfortunately, this limitation initially couldn’t be enforced by technical means (due to a limitation on addons.mozilla.org) so some people with old Firefox 3.6 versions nevertheless got it installed. If you are one of them: you should update your browser as soon as possible, already because of the numerous known security issues in the old versions.

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On the pop-up blocker in Adblock Plus · 2012-02-15 18:33 by Wladimir Palant

There is a semi-hidden new feature in Adblock Plus 2.0: a pop-up blocker. I wanted to explain what this feature is about and why there are no big announcements about it.

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The future of Element Hiding Helper · 2012-01-19 12:08 by Wladimir Palant

The Adblock Plus roadmap currently has a bullet point “Integrate Element Hiding Helper into Adblock Plus”. After adding Page Inspector support to Element Hiding Helper today I think that I’m confident about what exactly will be integrated there.

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Adblock Plus 2.0.3 released · 2012-01-05 09:54 by Wladimir Palant

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Adblock Plus 2.0.2 released · 2011-12-21 17:52 by Wladimir Palant

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Adblock Plus 2.0.1 released · 2011-12-14 11:57 by Wladimir Palant

Install Adblock Plus 2.0.1

This release is fixing a few minor issues compared to Adblock Plus 2.0. Main reason for the release is a change to the compatibility information.

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Adblock Plus 2.0 released · 2011-12-13 16:59 by Wladimir Palant

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Please welcome our first employee: Andrey Novikov · 2011-12-09 21:11 by Wladimir Palant

A few months ago I explained why we changed our policy on donations. This worked out and we were able to hire our first employee: Andrey Novikov. Andrey comes from a web development and server administration background, he is also the developer of the Androzic app for Android-based mobile phones. For now he is working on Adblock Plus for Chrome and already added proper recognition of third-party domains (something that only few people will notice but nevertheless important to bring our Chrome extension on par with the Firefox version). Next task on his list: porting user interface from Adblock Plus for Firefox to Chrome.

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Adblock Plus user survey results [Part 4] · 2011-12-09 15:58 by Wladimir Palant

The previous part analyzed the last page of the survey where people replied on the role of Adblock Plus on the web. Of course, it would also be interesting to see whether the results are different depending on which group of survey respondents you look. I analyzed the last page for each of the survey languages separately and I’ve also created a separate analysis for “newbies” — people who said that they were using Firefox for less than one year. I’ll just publish the results here without commenting.

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