"Filters disappear" bug probably fixed · 2007-04-27 14:13 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 0.7.5+ development build (2007042714) has been uploaded.
Installation
http://adblockplus.org/devbuilds/
Changes
- Probably fixed “Filters disappear” bug (bug 16488, need confirmation)
- Added Estonian and Frisian (this time for real) locales
- Fixed up abp: protocol implementation (caused Firefox windows to hang up when opening if menu bar was hidden by ABP)
- Fixed wrapping of the object tab text (caused vertical display in Japanese)
- Added moz-icon: protocol scheme to the whitelist to fix issues with FireFTP (forum thread)
- Made Filter and State columns visible by default and Type column wider
Rob · 2007-04-27 20:33 · #
I’ll give it a try. I’ve had this bug 3 times today and about 8 times over the past month.
It just seems to happen randomly, regardless of what I do.
Any idea how to replicate the bug? Or at least some idea of what I can do that might make it occur again?
Reply from Wladimir Palant:
Unfortunately – no, you simply have to use it for some time. My suspicion is that the actual bug is in Gecko, I only made sure that it doesn’t cause data loss any more.
Rob · 2007-05-06 02:14 · #
It isn’t fixed, it just happened again.
The filters list isn’t totally blank this time though.
The list, and patterns.ini, have taken the values from the preference “adblock.patterns” in about:config.
That must’ve been leftover from the original Adblock, when I uninstalled it.
Reply from Wladimir Palant:
This is something different then. Adblock Plus succeeded renaming the old patterns.ini into patterns-backup1.ini but failed writing a new version of it. I will change the code to make sure that this failure isn’t fatal any more.