Few words from the first employee · 2011-12-15 20:27 by Andrey Novikov
Thank you for the warm welcome. I am very glad to join the great team developing the world’s most popular plug-in. As Wladimir mentioned my first task is to refine user interface of Adblock Plus for Chrome.
No more status updates · 2011-02-04 20:53 by Wladimir Palant
I haven’t been publishing status updates for a while now. Reason is that the system doesn’t quite seem to work for me. Summarizing at the end of the week works well if I was focused on a few major tasks the whole week, on a chaotic week with lots of multitasking however I often simply don’t remember any more and wonder where the time has gone. Also, the next tasks that I list tend to get reprioritized, the list is often already outdated by the start of next week.
Status update: 2011-01-07 · 2011-01-07 19:15 by Wladimir Palant
Worked 4.5 days on Adblock Plus this week.
Done
- Investigated issues with Flash objects staying hidden in Chrome, filed Chrome issue 68518, also implemented a work-around
- Investigated some element hiding rules breaking Gmail in Chrome, filed Chrome issue 68705
- Released Adblock Plus for Chrome 1.0.25
- Investigated issues disabling filters from list of blockable items in Firefox 3.6 — caused by wrongly applied JavaScript wrappers, solution still outstanding
- Investigated memory leak visible in my main profile again — with limited success
- Finished up new script to create development builds — tested and checked into sitescripts repository, needs to be hooked up now
Status update: 2010-12-23 · 2010-12-24 20:25 by Wladimir Palant
Worked 4 days on Adblock Plus this week.
Done
- Released Adblock Plus for Google Chrome 1.0.22, 1.0.23, 1.0.24
- Investigated numerous issues reported after release, we should have an overview of what needs fixing now
- Added support for X-Do-Not-Track header in Adblock Plus nightlies
- Released Adblock Plus 1.3.3
Status update: 2010-12-19 · 2010-12-19 21:57 by Wladimir Palant
Done
- Finished security review of Anwiki, all XSS holes should be plugged now
- Set up rsync to be used for distributing EasyList instead of CVS
- A few more minor fixes for Adblock Plus/Chrome, updated subscriptions metadata
- Released two Adblock Plus/Chrome development builds (manually for now)
- Created forum area for Google Chrome users, updated link in the extension
- Investigated a bunch of Java-related issues, filed Mozilla bug 619349 and Mozilla bug 619399.
- Investigated WebKit bug 45586 which is hurting Adblock Plus/Chrome a lot.
- Reverted making subscription downloads “anonymous” (a change that went into Adblock Plus 1.3.2), turns out this breaks password-protected downloads as well as downloads through some proxy servers.
Status update: 2010-12-10 · 2010-12-15 18:51 by Wladimir Palant
Done
- Using JSHydra for automated code rewriting, seems to work correctly on all Adblock Plus modules now and can be used to generate Chrome-compatible code
- Updated Adblock Plus for Chrome code — now using current Adblock Plus code instead of a one year old snapshot
- Fixed a bunch of minor issues in Adblock Plus for Chrome (most importantly: made it work with XHTML documents)
- Switched to newer Drag&Drop API in Preferences dialog (yes, Gecko 1.9.0 no longer needs to be supported)
- Released Adblock Plus 1.3.2
Status update: 2010-12-03 · 2010-12-08 00:44 by Wladimir Palant
Done
- Changed plans for Adblock Plus 1.3.5 — a release in December is unrealistic
- Investigated an issue breaking Java applets when Adblock Plus is installed, probably the same one that is being reported for Pogo.com. Filed bug 616106.
- Got rid of “invalid XBL binding” warning in Firefox 4
- Made sure leak testing tools don’t get confused by Adblock Plus (reporting a non-existent leak)
- Spent some time investigating the memory leak I am observing in my Firefox — couldn’t find anything with the tools I tried, still unsure whether this leak is related to Adblock Plus
- Tried improving 16×16 Adblock Plus icon (will become the most used icon in Firefox 4), with very little success
- Started looking into JSHydra for automated code rewriting
Status update: 2010-11-26 · 2010-11-26 20:49 by Wladimir Palant
Worked 4.5 days on Adblock Plus this week.
Done
- Finished refactoring of Python scripts used on adblockplus.org. From what I can tell, security best practices are followed everywhere so I made the corresponding Mercurial repository visible.
- Added more information to status reports that will hopefully make dealing with pop-ups easier.
- Disallowed sending issue reports with some configurations to prevent useless reports.
- Implemented a faster filter matching algorithm (filter subscriptions need to adapt before we get all the performance advantages here).
- Set up an Anwiki instance for easylist.adblockplus.org (still needs some theme tuning, this is up to Michael).
- Finally reproduced and fixed the issue with element hiding rules not applying after an exception (regression in Adblock Plus 1.3)
- Fixed script generating nightly builds: removing old builds worked incorrectly and caused the script to remove a 1.3.5a build while leaving 1.3a builds in the directory.
Status update: 2010-11-19 · 2010-11-26 16:35 by Wladimir Palant
Done
- Added a way to change status of a issue reports, with an optional notification sent out to the user.
- Improved sorting of report columns.
- More discussions on issue reporter improvements.
In progress
- Refactoring of Python scripts used on adblockplus.org to make them easier to change and maintain.
Status update: 2010-11-14 · 2010-11-26 16:21 by Wladimir Palant
Worked 4 days on Adblock Plus this week.
Done
- Subscription authors are now getting notifications about new issue reports, choosing between daily and weekly digests is also possible.
- Added sorting functionality to report columns.
- Implemented a bunch of improvements to the digest emails to allow spotting “good” reports more easily.
- Discussed a bunch of other improvement proposals for issue reports.
- Looked into issues that people using icon with text are experiencing – found an undocumented solution, let’s hope that it won’t break with the next Firefox release.
- Fixed toolbar icon in SeaMonkey Mail nightlies (nobody reported this issue, I guess nobody noticed?).