Some memory management improvements · 2009-07-02 18:41 by Wladimir Palant
So far 12 translations have been completed, rest still contains English strings.
Changes
- Cleaned up data management code, made sure Adblock Plus doesn’t use up more memory than necessary
Known issues
Performance issues caused by new object tabs code on some pages (forum topic)
Some last improvements to tabs on Flash · 2009-06-25 08:10 by Wladimir Palant
Update: The original development build (2009062508, source code revision eae534acf07a) calculated tab positions incorrectly and was replaced.
The improvements to “Tabs on Flash and Java” feature should be complete now. Feel free to provide feedback in the forum.
Note: Adblock Plus 1.1 is feature-complete now. No more features will be added, string freeze starts now. Some stability work still remains before the release however.
Changes
- “Block” button on plugins (e.g. Flash or Java) is only shown when the mouse is on the plugin
Showing tabs on Flash only when hovered · 2009-06-24 00:52 by Wladimir Palant
The improvements to “Tabs on Flash and Java” feature are highly experimental and still work in progress. Feel free to provide feedback in the forum.
Changes
- “Block” button on plugins (e.g. Flash or Java) is only shown when the mouse is on the plugin
- Fixed: Domain-restricted filters are applied to pages opened from disk
Known issues
- Outstanding “Tabs on Flash and Java” issues: listed in the forum
Domain exceptions now work for element hiding as well · 2009-06-15 08:00 by Wladimir Palant
This development build is almost feature complete now, further Adblock Plus 1.1 development will focus on stability rather than features. Still possible features: a context menu entry to revert “Disable this filter on example.com” and object tab improvements.
Changes
- Added support for domain exceptions in element hiding, e.g. “example.com,~foo.example.com##foo” or “~example.com##foo” (forum topic)
Almost all feature work for Adblock Plus 1.1 done · 2009-06-11 09:00 by Wladimir Palant
This development build is almost feature complete now, further Adblock Plus 1.1 development will focus on stability rather than features.
Changes
- Clearing browsing history in Firefox now clears hit statistics in Adblock Plus as well (forum topic)
- Added Adblock Plus version and source code revision to the information displayed on
chrome://adblockplus/content/errors.html - Added “Re-enable Adblock Plus on this page” context menu items for whitelisted pages, removes/disables the filter responsible for whitelisting
- Blockable items: Added “Disable this filter on example.com” context menu item for user-defined filters (adds the required $domain option)
- Fixed: webpages can easily detect “Collapse blocked elements” option
- Fixed: “Disabled on …” doesn’t work correctly with rules that already exist in filter subscriptions
Improving compatibility with various application · 2009-06-03 22:44 by Wladimir Palant
This development build was tested in Songbird, Prism and SeaMonkey’s browser component. Thunderbird and SeaMonkey Mail still need to be tested.
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 1.2b1, Prism 1.0b1
- Moved all application-specific code to the overlay file corresponding with that application
- Blockable items: Creating a filter for an item matching a disabled exception rule is possible again (forum topic)
- Preferences: insert imported and pasted comments before the filter that follows them (forum topic, forum topic)
- Preferences: fixed a scenario where the same filter might appear twice in the list
- Fixed: “Disabled on …” doesn’t work correctly if the exception rule already exists but is disabled
- Fixed: Toolbar icon doesn’t show up in SeaMonkey 2.0
- Fixed: ABP fails to initialize itself in Prism
- Fixed: Indentation of some menu items of the toolbar icon’s menu too large in Songbird
- Fixed: Adding a filter subscription in Preferences that redirects to a different address causes download failure
Adding Weave support to an extension · 2009-06-01 12:00 by Wladimir Palant
Weave is a pretty cool extension, it lets you sync your Firefox/Fennec data (history, bookmarks etc.) across multiple computers via some server — and that while the browser is running, no need to restart it. So for example, you might have Fennec running on a Pocket PC and Firefox on your desktop, both logged into the same Weave account. You add a bookmark in Firefox. On next sync (which you can trigger manually) this change will be uploaded to the server. And next time Fennec syncs this bookmark will simply appear in your bookmarks list while the browser is running. Weave works with single bookmarks rather than taking the list as a whole meaning that this update will not affect the other bookmark changes you’ve performed in Fennec in the meantime (those will simply be uploaded to the server so that Firefox can get them on next sync). Add to this encryption, all data is being encrypted locally before being sent to the server — so while the server can tell how many bookmarks you have, it won’t be able to read the actual data. Still, if you don’t trust Mozilla’s server you can run your own without much trouble.
Weave support moved into a separate extension · 2009-05-31 17:08 by Wladimir Palant
This development build removes Weave support which has been moved into a separate extension.
Changes
Added experimental Weave support to synchronize Adblock Plus filters and preferences across computers/profiles.
Experimental Weave support · 2009-05-18 09:46 by Wladimir Palant
Changes
- Added experimental Weave support to synchronize Adblock Plus filters and preferences across computers/profiles. Limitations:
- Currently, only Weave 0.3.2 is supported. Weave 0.3.0 will not work, future Weave releases will most likely not work either.
- Only filters are synced, not their position however. Synchronized profiles will have the same filters but might show them in a different order.
- Currently, there is no mechanism to ensure that future Adblock Plus versions can change the data format without causing data loss
- Syncing Adblock Plus data is enabled by default, disabling is only possible by changing extensions.weave.engine.abpdata preference manually. This will be fixed in Weave 0.4, this option will be available in Weave preferences there.
- Filter composer: Added warning when adding a filter to a disabled filter group (forum topic)
- Blockable items: Added “document source” column (domain name to be used for the $domain filter option, forum topic)
- Preferences: insert imported comments before the filter that follows them (forum topic)
- Fixed: ABP icon updates its status every two seconds, hogs CPU time
An approach to fair ad blocking - Feedback summary · 2009-05-13 13:41 by Wladimir Palant
I got more than 200 comments in two days to my controversial proposal to occasionally suggest Adblock Plus users to whitelist frequently visited sites. Given that it was a lengthy text and many users came from sites that “compressed” it, the feedback was surprisingly useful (and only few people accusing me of deciding everything without asking users on a blog post that asks users for their opinions). I will try to summarize the important results: