Introducing filter composer · 2008-06-23 01:53 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 0.7.5.5+ development build (2008062301) has been uploaded. Only en-US locale is available at the moment.
Installation
http://adblockplus.org/devbuilds/
Changes
- Added new filter composer dialog that is opened to add a new filter
- Added hidden preference extensions.adblockplus.usefiltercomposer to choose between filter composer and preferences dialog for adding of new filters (this preference might be removed later)
- Blockable items: Changed default action for blocked items to “add exception rule” instead of “edit filter”
- Fixed: Subscriptions are sometimes loaded from browser cache
- Added hidden preference extensions.adblockplus.savestats to allow turning off hit statistics (useful if patterns.ini is put into a version control system)
- Firefox 1.5, Thunderbird 1.5 and SeaMonkey 1.0 are no longer supported
- Flock 1.2 is supported now
- Cleaned up some backwards compatibility hacks
- Removed ancient drag&drop handling code (not discoverable and not advertised anywhere)
Known issues
- Filter composer should warn if Adblock Plus is disabled
- Filter composer should have a help text for “custom pattern” field
- Filter composer won’t work in Firefox 2
- Clicks on the status bar icon are ignored
