Added support for permanent redirects · 2007-04-18 04:38 by Wladimir Palant
Warning: The version described here is a development build and as a such it has not been fully tested and might not work properly. Use at your own risk and make sure to backup your filter list. Latest Adblock Plus release can be downloaded from addons.mozilla.org.
A new Adblock Plus 0.7.2.4+ development build (2007041804) has been uploaded. This is a release candidate for Adblock Plus 0.7.5.
Installation
http://adblockplus.org/devbuilds/
Changes
- Added locales: Arabic, Frisian, Mongolian
- List of blockable items now appears at the bottom of the window instead of being placed in the sidebar, the behavior has been made consistent throughout host applications — with exception of K-Meleon that still supports only the detached state (forum thread)
- Removed SeaMonkey sidebar customization hack
- Made matching element hiding rules appear in the list of blockable items
- Added hit counts for element hiding rules
- More consistent handling of frames, less likely to trigger bugs in Gecko (side effect: frame’s URL no longer disappers from the list of blockable items when frame’s location changes)
- Changed appearance of object tabs to make them less intrusive (forum thread)
- Added
collapseand~collapsefilter options to override the global “Collapse blocked elements” option (the filter*/banners/*$collapsewill always collapse elements,*/banners/*$~collapsewill never collapse) - Subscription address is now changed if download results in a permanent HTTP redirect
- Next download for subscriptions containing comment with text “Redirect: http://example.com/new.address” will happen from the new address, subscription address is changed if this download is successful
- After 30 failed subscription download attempts the default fallback address is requested for information on new subscription address (
extensions.adblockplus.subscriptions_fallbackurlandextensions.adblockplus.subscriptions_fallbackerrorspreferences added) - Replaced icons in the blockable item’s “State” column to make them better recognizable by colorblind people (opinions are welcome)
- Removed useless “Block remote ads in local pages” option together with the corresponding extensions.adblockplus.blocklocalpages preference (forum thread)
- Removed extensions.adblockplus.localschemes preference (generally blocking on all content pages now)
- Removed “Not a remote page” message in the list of blockable items and the preferences dialog to be more consistent
- No longer filling the list with default filters when patterns.ini doesn’t exist, offering subscriptions should be enough (extensions.adblockplus.patterns preference removed)
- Removed extensions.adblockplus.checkedadblockprefs and extensions.adblockplus.checkedadblocksync preferences (Adblock’s preferences are now only imported when patterns.ini doesn’t exist yet)
- Removed extensions.adblockplus.grouporder preference (hardcoded now, no point in having this as a preference)
- Removed extensions.adblockplus.linktypes preference (using a more general approach to recognize nodes that can have links)
- Removed extensions.adblockplus.blocktypes preference (rules like
*$stylesheet can be used to prevent a particular type from being blocked) - Removed mostly useless extensions.adblockplus.noncollapsabletypes preference
- Removed exceptions for about:blank
- Now ignoring effectively empty rows/cols attributes when collapsing frames in a frameset
- Fixed: items with same address but different type always appear as one item in the list
- Fixed: “Open in new tab” and “Flash item’s borders” context menu entries (blockable items list) don’t work in Thunderbird and Songbird
- Fixed: EMBED elements containing images should be recognized as objects
- Fixed: Object tabs require two restarts after installation to work correctly in Firefox 3.0 alphas (bug 16077)
- Made compatible with K-Meleon 1.1, multi-language packages can be built now (those will not work correctly in K-Meleon 1.02)
- Dropped Songbird 0.1 support, requiring Songbird 0.2 or higher now
Known issues
Header of the blockable items list not visible in fullscreen modeObject subrequests in Firefox 2.0.0.4 and higher displayed with type “object”
chewey · 2007-04-18 04:59 · #
You implement faster than I am able to suggest :-)
The ability to trigger redirects via a “magic string” in comments is a great idea for those without full access to their .htaccess (like me).
Thanks.
LorenzoC · 2007-04-18 23:45 · #
Hello, I’ve got a problem, maybe you already know it.
In the FF error console:
Error: urchinTracker is not defined
It refers to the Google Analytics JS:
[cannot post the JS code]
urchinTracker();
I don’t know, maybe it is also related to the subscriptions, I’ve subscribed the basic list and the tracking list from Easylist.
Regards.
LorenzoC · 2007-04-18 23:56 · #
Addendum: the problem goes away as soon as I unsubscribe the tracking list from Easylist.
Simply disabling the analytics “rule” in that list doesn’t change anything.
Fox · 2007-04-19 00:15 · #
/urchin.js|
rule also needs to be disabled.
If that Google Analytics JavaScript -file is blocked,
you see that error in error console, because that site still has internal JavaScript part that is executed, (You can view html source and see it.)
ps: i use this:
google-analytics.com/$image
Because Convert things do not work here if Google Analytics js file is blocked.
http://www.convert-me.com/en/convert/length
And Dilbert.com link does not work here: http://www.comics.com/
LorenzoC · 2007-04-19 09:15 · #
Yes, sorry for rising the alert, now I understand it better.
Actually you should disable ADBlock whenever you are debugging scripts in a webpage. It is not a bug, it is simply the way things work. Problem is the filter stops the JS from loading, then in the page there is a call to a function inside the missing JS and you get the error. It is not Analytics only of course. I guess to fix this you should re-write the page code to remove also all the calls to the stopped JS files.
Regards.