Adblock Plus and (a little) more: Simplified Preferences dialog

Simplified Preferences dialog · 2008-06-26 10:25 by Wladimir Palant

A new Adblock Plus 0.7.5.5+ development build (2008062608) has been uploaded. Only en-US locale is available at the moment.

Installation

https://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)