Implemented site-restrictions for filters · 2008-12-21 06:34 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 1.0.0+ development build (2008122105) has been uploaded. String freeze for Adblock Plus 1.0.1 starts now.
Installation
http://adblockplus.org/devbuilds/
Changes
- Blockable items: Matching disabled filters now displayed — for easier re-enabling (forum topic)
- Blockable items: New state icon for items matching disabled filters
- Blockable items: Clicking in the State column now disables/re-enables the filter
- Blockable items: Opening in new tab works properly in Songbird now
- Blockable items: Searching for filter text now possible as well
- Filter composer: extensions.adblockplus.composer_default preference now decides which suggestion should be selected by default (forum topic)
- Filter composer: Added “Select all” and “Select none” for type checkboxes (forum topic)
- Preferences: “Tip of the day” replaced by “Getting started” in Help menu
- Extended list of recommended filter subscriptions and made it scrollable again
- Filters can be restricted to some domains with the $domain=foo.com|bar.com option (negation also possible: $domain=~foo.com, forum topic)
- Added support for item type “media” (will be added in Firefox 3.1 for HTML audio/video tags)
- Regression fixed: Frames are not collapsed in some situations (forum topic)
- Fixed: Toolbar button shouldn’t have the same title as the Tools menu item
- Fixed: Element hiding might change page layout even on whitelisted sites (forum topic, issue still exists in Firefox 2.0)
- Fixed: Filter list in Preferences sometimes won’t update properly if filters are added/removed (forum topic)
- Fixed: Removed filters still apply if two different filters were translated into same regular expression
- Fixed: Filters like “[Foo]” mess up filter storage file
- Fixed: Filter list import doesn’t remove checksum comment
- Object tabs no longer shown for invisible objects
- Changed placement of object tabs in document to avoid breaking some sites (forum topic)
- K-Meleon: Fixed handling of some menu items in toolbar icon’s menu
- Fixed: Element hiding doesn’t work for chrome documents (Firefox 2.0/Thunderbird 2.0 only, forum topic)
- Fixed: $collapse flag not being read correctly from patterns.ini
Source code revision: 687dd3193204


rick752 · 2008-12-21 08:27 · #
Wow Wladimir …. the new site-specific $domain option seems to work very well so far. I’ll test it more tomorrow. Awesome!
vida18 · 2008-12-22 12:02 · #
And Firefox 3.1 ?
Reply from Wladimir Palant:
What about it? Firefox 3.1 is supported, as usually.
Adblock Plus Fan · 2008-12-22 17:22 · #
So far it works great. It’s a nice christmas gift, thanks :p