Adblock Plus and (a little) more: Some last improvements to tabs on Flash

Some last improvements to tabs on Flash · 2009-06-25 10:10 by Wladimir Palant

Update: The original development build (2009062508, source code revision eae534acf07a) calculated tab positions incorrectly and was replaced.

A new Adblock Plus 1.1alpha+ development build (2009062510) has been uploaded. The improvements to “Tabs on Flash and Java” feature should be complete now. Feel free to provide feedback in the forum.

Note: Adblock Plus 1.1 is feature-complete now. No more features will be added, string freeze starts now. Some stability work still remains before the release however.

Installation

https://adblockplus.org/devbuilds/

Changes

Dropped compatibility with old browsers and cleaned up the code, now requiring at least: Firefox 3.0.9, SeaMonkey 2.0b1, Thunderbird 3.0b3, Songbird 1.2b1, Prism 1.0b1
Added handling of redirects, the redirect address now shows up in “Blockable items” as well and can be blocked
Added explicit support for blocking fonts (@font-type CSS directive in Firefox 3.5)
Added support for flexible anchors at start of filter: ||example.com/foo/ will match http://example.com/foo/bar and http://test.example.com/foo/bar but not http://badexample.com/foo/bar or http://evilsite.com/?http://example.com/foo/bar (forum topic)
Added support for ^ character that will match a single separator character or end of address (forum topic)
Added support for domain exceptions in element hiding, e.g. “example.com,~foo.example.com##foo” or “~example.com##foo” (forum topic)
“Block” button on plugins (e.g. Flash or Java) is only shown when the mouse is on the plugin
Clearing browsing history in Firefox now clears hit statistics in Adblock Plus as well (forum topic)
Filter composer: Added flexible anchors as an option (“at the beginning of domain name”) (forum topic)
Filter composer: Added “example.com^” as fourth suggestion (forum topic)
Filter composer: Added warning when adding a filter to a disabled filter group (forum topic)
Moved all application-specific code to the overlay file corresponding with that application
Started refactoring of browser integration code which runs in its own context now
Changed the way “add subscription” links work, these can now only be triggered by user clicking a link
Added diagnostic page displaying all errors related to Adblock Plus: chrome://adblockplus/content/errors.html
Added Adblock Plus version and source code revision to the information displayed on chrome://adblockplus/content/errors.html
Added “Re-enable Adblock Plus on this page” context menu items for whitelisted pages, removes/disables the filter responsible for whitelisting
Blockable items: Added “document source” column (domain name to be used for the $domain filter option, forum topic)
Blockable items: Creating a filter for an item matching a disabled exception rule is possible again (forum topic)
Blockable items: Added “Disable this filter on example.com” context menu item for user-defined filters (adds the required $domain option)
Preferences: “slow filter” warning is now a separate list column which can be used for sorting
Preferences: “close” button moved to the right side of the filter editor, made the button use Firefox 3 look
Preferences: improved position calculations for the filter editor, no longer makes the text position change
Preferences: using browser’s real find bar now instead of faking it
Preferences: fixed slowdown when enabling/disabling many element hiding rules
Preferences: insert imported and pasted comments before the filter that follows them (forum topic, forum topic)
Preferences: fixed a scenario where the same filter might appear twice in the list
Fixed: webpages can easily detect “Collapse blocked elements” option
Fixed: ABP icon updates its status every two seconds, hogs CPU time
Fixed: opening Preferences in current Firefox nightlies selects wrong tree row (worked around bug 489881)
Fixed: detection of background images breaks the context menu in Firefox nightlies
Fixed: an error is reported to console on first run (patterns.ini not found)
Fixed: “Disabled on …” doesn’t work correctly if the exception rule already exists but is disabled
Fixed: “Disabled on …” doesn’t work correctly with rules that already exist in filter subscriptions
Fixed: Toolbar icon doesn’t show up in SeaMonkey 2.0
Fixed: ABP fails to initialize itself in Prism
Fixed: Indentation of some menu items of the toolbar icon’s menu too large in Songbird
Fixed: Adding a filter subscription in Preferences that redirects to a different address causes download failure
Fixed: Domain-restricted filters are applied to pages opened from disk