Detailed changelog for Adblock Plus 0.6.1
The following lists the major changes compared to Adblock Plus 0.6:
New features
- Filter subscriptions (formerly "synchronization")
- Sidebar can be detached (button in the upper-right corner)
- Showing the filter that has been applied in the sidebar's tooltip
- Double-click on a blocked/whitelisted item in the sidebar selects the filter in the Preferences dialog automatically
- Toolbar icon in Firefox (customizable — can be moved around or removed)
- Status bar icon has a context menu (same as the toolbar icon's menu)
- Middle-click on the icon in the toolbar or status bar disables/re-enables Adblock Plus
- Added minimal support for "DIV blocking" (see FAQ for details)
User interface
- Added translations: German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Polish, Slovak, Lithuanian, Romanian, Finnish, Turkish, Japanese
- Made Adblock Plus show up as an icon in the status bar (optional now, can be removed via Options)
- Mozilla Suite/Seamonkey: Added the sidebar and made it behave in the same way as in Firefox (opening via menu or Ctrl+Shift+B works)
- Removed limit for tooltip size in the sidebar
- Sidebar now tells that a page is whitelisted instead of "no blockable items"
- Sidebar always updating properly now even when going to a page without blockable items
- Whitelisting a site or a single page possible via toolbar icon's menu
- Preferences dialog: Filters are grouped by type
- Preferences dialog: Added a warning when Adblock Plus is disabled
- Preferences dialog: "Sort alphabetically" only sorts visually and any sorting applies immediately
- Preferences dialog: Sorting ignores non-alphabetical characters
- Preferences dialog: Multiple selection possible
- Preferences dialog: Reordering of filters via context menu or Ctrl-Up/Down (not when sorting is enabled)
- Preferences dialog: Blocked items in the suggestions list can also be selected now
- Preferences dialog: Using platform's line breaks for exported filters
- Preferences dialog: Added option to cancel the warning when importing filters
- Preferences dialog: OK doesn't perform "Add filter" automatically any more
- Preferences dialog: Moved parts of the "Options" menu into the new "Filters" menu
- Preferences dialog: Made menu items and OK button disable when necessary
- Preferences dialog: Options apply immediately now
- Preferences dialog: Line height decreased for the filters list and suggestions dropdown
Core
- Made whitelisting apply to individual items as well, not only complete web pages
- Improved handling of frames (fixed: blocked frames wouldn't show up in the sidebar)
- When the option "block banner links" is used those links are treated as a separate element and can be blocked via context menu
- Optionally blocking ads in local pages now (enabled by default, some RSS readers need this)
- Uninstalling Adblock/Adblock Plus 0.5 automatically now (advising manual uninstall in Mozilla Suite and Seamonkey)
- Improved performance
Known issues
- Flash/Java tabs aren't always visible and break the page's design in some rare cases
- Frames without blockable elements (including blocked frames) don't show up in the sidebar when going back to a page via history
- Tooltip for the toolbar icon is the same as for the status bar, isn't quite correct there