Element Hiding Helper 1.2.1 released · 2012-01-26 12:51 by Wladimir Palant
Install Element Hiding Helper 1.2.1
I discovered bug 721319 causing memory leaks in most of my restartless extensions. The new release works around the issue now.
Element Hiding Helper 1.2 released · 2012-01-25 14:54 by Wladimir Palant
Install Element Hiding Helper 1.2
Changes
- Can be installed/uninstalled/disabled without a browser restart now.
- Added Page Inspector integration (new feature coming up in Firefox 10).
- Stopped warning about missing Adblock Plus installation.
- Fixed: Starting from the Tools Adblock Plus menu is possible now.
- Fixed: Content Security Policy can no longer prevent preview from working on some websites.
Element Hiding Helper 1.2 release candidate available · 2012-01-21 19:26 by Wladimir Palant
Element Hiding Helper 1.2rc.382 is a release candidate for Element Hiding Helper 1.2. After the previous announcement it went through some major architectural simplifications, there shouldn’t be any visible changes however. Also, many translations have been updated already so that the Page Inspector button will be localized.
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.
Using Page Inspector in Firefox 10 and higher to hide elements · 2012-01-19 11:51 by Wladimir Palant
Firefox 10 will introduce a new Page Inspector feature, you can read more about it here. This feature allows selecting elements a lot better than the current Element Hiding Helper. You can either right click an element and choose “Inspect Element” – the element will be selected in the Inspector and you will be able to click up/down in the hierarchy line at the bottom. Or you can choose “Inspect” from the Web Developer menu, this will let you select an element similarly to how you would do it with Element Hiding Helper. Once you click an element the selection is fixed, you can click the “Inspect” button to continue selecting. Starting with Firefox 11 there will also be a very impressive 3D View, something that was previously provided by the Tilt extension.
Element Hiding Helper 1.2b.372 will now add an “Hide with ABP” button to the inspector toolbar. This allows you to select an element with the Page Inspector and then click this button to open rule composer. If you use a pre-release Firefox version — please test this feature. Element Hiding Helper 1.2 should be released in a week, in time for Firefox 10 release.
In other news, all issues related to making Element Hiding Helper restartless should have been resolved by now. If you experience any issues, please comment in this post or create a forum topic.
Element Hiding Helper: the restartless edition · 2012-01-04 14:00 by Wladimir Palant
Starting with Element Hiding Helper 1.2a.361 the Element Hiding Helper extension installs and uninstalls without a browser restart as well. You can also enable or disable Element Hiding Helper immediately in the Add-ons Manager. However, you will still need to restart your browser when updating from an older extension version because this older version cannot shut down while the browser is running. As with the Diagnostics extension, a reasonably new application version is required (at least Firefox 8, Thunderbird 8, SeaMonkey 2.5), old versions are no longer supported.
Another important change: Element Hiding Helper will no longer warn you if Adblock Plus isn’t installed, we will instead rely on AMO to communicate this to users. One reason for removing this check is that Adblock Plus should also become restartless in future which will make checking for its presence a lot more complicated.
Element Hiding Helper 1.1.4 released · 2011-12-08 14:50 by Wladimir Palant
Install Element Hiding Helper 1.1.4
Previous release had a bug which caused it to malfunction in Firefox versions before Firefox 10. This has been corrected now.
Element Hiding Helper 1.1.3 released · 2011-12-08 10:22 by Wladimir Palant
Install Element Hiding Helper 1.1.3
Changes
- Fixed: Element selector prevents a memory compartment from being released (forum topic).
- Fixed: Some websites display their content on top of element markers.
Element Hiding Helper 1.1.2 released · 2011-09-16 14:45 by Wladimir Palant
Install Element Hiding Helper 1.1.2
Changes
- New icon, also added a large version of the icon (forum topic)
- Showing preview is now selected by default (forum topic)
- Improved default attribute selection (forum topic)
- Corrected handling of whitespace at the end of ID attribute (forum topic)
- Removed Lithuanian translation, it is abandoned and unusable (forum topic)
Element Hiding Helper 1.1.1 released · 2011-03-11 17:50 by Wladimir Palant
Install Element Hiding Helper 1.1.1
Changes
- Improved escaping of attribute values
- Fixed: Hotkeys in the help tooltip are invisible with some browser themes
- Fixed: Clicking homepage link in About dialog doesn’t do anything
- Fixed: Preview doesn’t work correctly if the rule contains international characters
- Fixed: Broken composer dialog with
composer_defaultDomainpreference set to 1 or 2 if host name is an IP address