Simplified Preferences dialog · 2008-06-26 08:25 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 (2008062608) 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)- Moved warning that Adblock Plus is disabled from preferences to composer dialog, made it possible to enable with a single click
- Blockable items: Changed default action for blocked items to “add exception rule” instead of “edit filter”
- Blockable items: Tooltip now shows the filter subscription name in addition to the filter
- Blockable items: Added “Copy filter” item to the context menu
- Blockable items: Multiple selection and copying of multiple addresses/filters now possible
- Blockable items: Added “Select all” item to the context menu
- 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)
- Fixed: Dates in Preferences window would sometimes use wrong character encoding (bug 441370)
- Preferences: Pasting filters that contain spaces (especially comments) now possible (bug 18920)
- About dialog: Made it possible to select and copy version number
- Made sure filter composer warns the user on regexps and too short filters
- Preferences: Showing exclamation mark for too short filters as well now
- Preferences: Added a tooltip explaining the meaning of the exclamation mark
- Preferences: Removed regular expressions warning and corresponding preference extensions.adblockplus.warnregexp (warning in composer and exclamation mark are enough)
- Preferences: Removed dropdown list from filter editor
- Preferences: Filter changes (with exception of element hiding) no longer apply immediately to the “current” window, this is only done for the composer
- Preferences: “Add subscription” now opens a list of subscriptions instead of the “custom subscription” dialog
- Fixed: Findbar in preferences dialog has no icons (Firefox 3)
- Mac OS X: Preferences menu changed into toolbar to make sure it stays inside the window (forum topic)
- Fixed:Object tabs show up on print (bug 19405)
Known issues
Preferences window broken in SeaMonkey 1.1Exclamation mark tooltip is cut off in Firefox 2
