Detailed changelog for Adblock Plus 1.2
The following lists the major changes compared to Adblock Plus 1.1.3. If you experience issues with this release please check the list of known issues.
User interface
- New translations: Bulgarian, Argentinian Spanish
- Removed unmaintained translations: Estonian, Persian, Norwegian (Bokmål), Lithuanian
- Blocking HTML5 audio/video is now possible via context menu
- Added more information to the ABP icon tooltip (forum topic)
- Fixed: Some Adblock Plus messages were appearing with the generic "JavaScript Application" title (forum topic)
- Simplified status bar panel by removing the hidden "Adblock" text (user style updated for those who still want to see it)
"Add filter subscription" dialog (also displayed as post-install page)
- Completely redesigned to make this dialog easier to use (forum topic)
- Best available subscription recommendation is preselected
- In the post-install case: added warning when leaving without adding a filter subscription
- Adding "custom" subscriptions is possible in the same dialog now
- The complete list of subscriptions loads into the same dialog, visiting the webpage is no longer necessary
- Filter subscriptions matching user's locale are highlighted
- For supplemental subscriptions: Adding main subscription is suggested if the user isn't subscribed to it yet. Specifying main subscription is also possible with abp: links in webpages (forum topic)
- Fixed: "Add filter subscription" page on first install might be closed by session restore
"Tabs on Flash and Java" feature
- Improved positioning of tabs, position now adjusts to dynamic changes in the webpage and scrolling
- Fixed most conditions where tabs would become invisible due to page layout (bug 12910)
- Fixed cases where tabs would cause side-effects when showing up (e.g. bug 22246)
- Fixed cases where tabs break assumptions made by webpages, particularly Acid3 test (bug 22435)
- Tabs now fade out when mouse is moved away instead of disappearing immediately
List of blockable items
- When new tabs are opened browser preferences are respected (particularly whether the tab should be opened in background)
- Fixed: Context menu keyboard key wasn't working on the list
- Fixed: Search string wasn't remembered when detaching/reattaching (forum topic)
- "Disable filter on ..." was mistakenly hidden for some filters (bug 22481)
- No longer listing disabled filters if Adblock Plus is disabled (forum topic)
- Ensured correct functioning even with browser.frames.enabled preference switched off
Preferences window
- Filter groups like "My Ad Blocking Rules" are automatically re-enabled when the last filter is removed from them (forum topic)
- Fixed: Preferences window broken on operating systems with "exotic" regional settings like Georgian (work-around for Mozilla bug 508783)
- Fixed: Context menu keyboard key wasn't working on the list
- Fixed: Hotkeys like Ctrl+X sometimes wouldn't work until the context menu is opened
Filter composer
- Added "block entire domain" as filter suggestion in addition to "block this server" (forum topic)
"About Adblock Plus" dialog
- Changed presentation of the contributors list to make it more compact, significantly less scrolling necessary now
- Most parts of the contributors list are populated dynamically now (filter subscription authors from the list of recommended subscriptions, translators from the info in extension's install manifest)
Application support
- Firefox Mobile/Fennec: Adblock Plus status is displayed in identity panel or as a site action (Fennec 1.0 and Fennec 1.1 respectively) and allows enabling/disabling Adblock Plus on a site
- Firefox Mobile/Fennec: Made post-install page show up reliably (Mozilla bug 531071)
- Thunderbird: Positioned toolbar icon with the message actions, that's the more logical place for it
- Thunderbird: Made tabs opened from Adblock Plus dialogs open in Thunderbird rather than external browser
- SeaMonkey Mail: Opening tabs while no browser window is open now opens a new browser window (same way links in mail are treated)
- Songbird: Fixed toolbar icon in the new Purplerain theme (remaining issue is Songbird bug 20787)
Core
- Implemented a number of performance improvement measures, especially to reduce application startup delay
- Added new $elemhide filter option for exception rules, allows disabling all element hiding rules on a page (forum topic)
- Subscription download errors are reported to Error Console
- Fixed: loading filter rules with separator placeholder (^) is very slow