Detailed changelog for Adblock Plus 1.0

The following lists the major changes compared to Adblock Plus 0.7.5.4:

Known issues

  • Format of the filter storage changed so going back to a previous version requires exporting the filters and re-importing them after the downgrade
  • Mac OS X: Flash movies might not be displayed properly if "Show tabs on Flash and Java" option is switched on
  • Some translations contain untranslated English strings

New features

  • New filter composer dialog makes adding filters easier
  • New filter options $third-party and $~third-party restrict filters to third-party/first-party requests (forum topic)

User interface

  • Added translations: Armenian, Galician, Indonesian

List of blockable items

  • Tooltip now shows the filter source in addition to the filter itself (forum topic)
  • Filters can now be disabled and re-enabled from the context menu (forum topic)
  • Changed default action for blocked items to "Add exception rule" instead of "Edit filter"
  • Made "State" the default sort order (blocked items first)
  • Added support for multiple selection and copying of multiple addresses/filters (forum topic)
  • Added "Select all" to the context menu
  • Added "Copy filter" item to the context menu (forum topic)
  • Added "Size" column (hidden by default), same information shown in the tooltip
  • Changed filter color for element hiding hits (forum topic)
  • Fixed: Header is hidden in full screen mode

Preferences window

  • Eliminated delay when window is opened and much of the delay when changes are applied
  • Mac OS X: Preferences menu changed into toolbar to make sure it stays inside the window (forum topic)
  • Changed names for groups of user-defined filters (forum topic)
  • Group/subscription titles use bold text now (forum topic)
  • Added "View" menu to control visible columns and sorting, removed column picker
  • Made new "View" menu the context menu for list header
  • Groups containing user-defined filters can now be disabled (forum topic)
  • Images for "Enabled" column made more obvious (forum topic, forum topic)
  • Removed "Add filter" dummy from the list (forum topic)
  • Added support for comments in all filter groups, not only "Advertisement filters"
  • Comments now always stay before the same filter, regardless of sorting (also, they can be dragged even if the list is sorted)
  • For invalid filters, tooltip now explains why they are invalid
  • Removed user interface elements that were made obsolete by the filter composer: regular expression warning and corresponding preference extensions.adblockplus.warnregexp, dropdown list in filter editor (forum topic)
  • Filter export now inserts a checksum comment into the file (forum topic)
  • Added a tooltip explaining the meaning of the exclamation mark
  • Added a way to disable/enable filters and subscriptions from context menu
  • "Reset filter statistics" now resets "Last hit" as well (bug 18650)
  • Fixed: Findbar in preferences dialog has no icons (Firefox 3)
  • Fixed: Dates would sometimes use wrong character encoding (bug 441370)
  • Fixed: "Edit filter in effect" might select a filter in a disabled subscription even though it exists in enabled subscriptions as well (forum topic)
  • Fixed: Clicking twice on the Enabled column starts filter editor
  • Fixed: Changes to "download automatically" status are not displayed immediately
  • Pasting filters with spaces (in particular comments) now possible (bug 18920)

Filter subscription selection

  • First start: Filter subscription selection is opened in a new tab rather than in a separate window (bug 15786)
  • First start: Filter subscription selection will show up even if other extensions already added a filter subscription they maintain.
  • "Add filter subscription" from Preferences brings up filter subscription selection rather than the dialog for custom filter subscriptions.
  • Added warning if Filterset.G is installed with option to uninstall automatically
  • Added Adblock warning with option to uninstall automatically (this was a separate question pop-up before)

Other user interface changes

  • Regular expression warning was extended to also warn for filters that are too short to be optimized
  • Warning that Adblock Plus is disabled allows re-enabling with a single click
  • Removed ancient Drag&Drop handling code (not discoverable and not advertised anywhere)
  • Fixed: "Disable on this page only" won’t work for pages with query string
  • About Adblock Plus: Made version number selectable so that it can be copied
  • About Adblock Plus: Made homepage link localizable (and different for German/French locales, bug 17136)
  • Added "Adblock Plus: Blockable Items" to the View menu in Firefox (View – Toolbars menu in SeaMonkey)

Core

  • Core code was redesigned for better maintainability, code documentation and automated tests (based on Mochitest) were added for large parts of the core
  • Made sure filter storage file isn't overwritten unless write was successful (bug 16488)
  • Improved performance (esp. reading filter from disk and saving filters for large filter lists), reduced the amount of memory used
  • Fixed: Exception rules don’t always apply to element hiding in Firefox 3 (bug 20034)
  • Firefox 1.5, Thunderbird 1.5, SeaMonkey 1.0, Songbird 0.5/0.6 are no longer supported (removed some backwards compatibility hacks)
  • Flock 1.2/2.0 and Songbird 0.7/1.0 are supported now
  • Added support for Prism 0.9 (forum topic)
  • Added hidden preference extensions.adblockplus.savestats to allow turning off hit statistics (useful if patterns.ini is put into a version control system) (bug 18650)
  • Added support for private browsing mode in Firefox 3.1, hit statistics are disabled automatically
  • All first run actions are now controlled by extensions.adblockplus.currentversion preference (replaces showsubscriptions, checkedtoolbar, checkedadblockinstalled preferences)
  • Changed patterns.ini format to allow user-defined comments (and potentially other filters as well) to be stored in any filter group
  • Adblock Plus 0.6 preferences are no longer imported on upgrade
  • Adblock preferences are no longer imported on upgrade (filter list still imported)
  • Fixed: Object tabs show up on print (bug 19405)
  • Fixed: "getBoxObjectFor() is deprecated" warning in error console (bug 19126)

Subscription downloads

  • For subscription downloads, a comment "! Checksum: abcd" is now interpreted and files with wrong checksum are rejected to prevent broken downloads (forum topic, reference implementation to add checksums)
  • Next attempt after failed download is after one day now rather than after one hour to prevent server overload (adjusted preference extensions.adblockplus.subscriptions_fallbackerrors accordingly)
  • Fallback request can now disable automatic downloads for subscriptions that are no longer available
  • Fixed: Subscription downloads sometimes go to browser cache

Changelog for the previous release

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