Adblock Plus and (a little) more

Adblock Plus 1.0 for Android released · 2012-11-27 11:34 by Andrey Novikov

Install Adblock Plus for Android
If your phone doesn’t have access to Google Play you can also use the “Direct download” link on our homepage.

Until recently blocking ads on Android meant that you have to install Firefox and then Adblock Plus for Firefox. Things just got simpler for users of other browsers: all you need now is the Adblock Plus app. It works in background and filters out ads in almost all Android browsers and apps. Android 2.1 and higher is supported, the app uses the same filter lists as the Adblock Plus browser extensions.

Note that we are still in the early development stages with this application and there is certainly much room for improvement. There are also important limitations depending on the Android version on your device and whether your device has been rooted:

Rooted: Ads can be blocked on Wi-Fi and mobile connections.
Non-rooted with Android 3.1 or later: Ads will be blocked on Wi-Fi connections only.
Non-rooted with Android 3.0 or earlier: Some manual configuration is required.

Note that Android does not allow ads to be blocked on SSL encrypted websites. Also, Adblock Plus for Android will only block ads in Firefox and Opera browsers on rooted devices.

Adblock Plus 1.3.3 for Opera released · 2012-11-23 11:31 by Felix H. Dahlke

Install Adblock Plus for Opera

Note: In order to install from our website you have to add https://adblockplus.org to the list of trusted websites in Opera. This will no longer be necessary once the update is approved on the Opera Add-ons site.

Also note: Opera has changed the version to 1.3.4 on the add-ons site, but we’ll keep referring to this version as 1.3.3.

This release fixes issues that made ad blocking not work at all for some users. It wasn’t easy to reproduce, but having many extensions installed made it more likely to break. The problem was that Opera began to handle timeout events before loading all scripts, something we haven’t experienced with other browsers. This caused initialization errors under certain conditions.

If ad blocking still doesn’t work for you after installing this update, please report a bug.

Adblock Plus 2.2.1 released · 2012-11-23 10:56 by Wladimir Palant

Install Adblock Plus 2.2.1

This release fixes a critical issue affecting users on outdated Firefox versions (Firefox 9 to Firefox 13). It also fixes the apostrophe encoding in locales, mostly affecting the Italian locale.

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Known issues

Adblock Plus 2.2 released · 2012-11-21 17:58 by Wladimir Palant

Install Adblock Plus 2.2

The main change in this release is the new typo correction feature. Other than that we changed our source code license: we were using Mozilla Public LIcense v2 previously, we decided to go with the GNU General Public License v3 instead. There were also a few minor improvements.

Detailed changelog

Known issues

Adblock Plus 1.3.2 for Opera released · 2012-11-14 18:55 by Wladimir Palant

Install Adblock Plus for Opera

This is a minor improvement over our release yesterday. It fixes a bug in the way we dealt with raw regular expression filters and it adds back the whitelisted domains feature (not accessible via the Adblock Plus icon yet, whitelisted domains have to be added on the Options page).

Adblock Plus 1.3.1 for Opera released · 2012-11-13 12:41 by Wladimir Palant

Install Adblock Plus for Opera

Opera 12.10 release a few days ago introduced significant improvements to their URL Filter API. This finally allows an ad blocking extension in Opera to achieve results that are comparable to Adblock Plus for Firefox and Chrome. So we decided to take up the challenge and to release Adblock Plus for Opera.

The current release replaces the older Opera AdBlock extension (a project that will not be developed further) but it is actually based on Adblock Plus 1.3.1 for Chrome. We plan to release Adblock Plus for Opera and Chrome from a common code base in future, the releases will be published simultaneously. There are currently no development builds for Opera but those should become available soon.

There are important caveats to note:

Disabling Adblock Plus on particular websites isn’t possible. This is an Opera limitation, our filters can either apply to all websites or to none of them.
“Hide placeholders of blocked elements” feature known from Firefox and Chrome isn’t available, this is also an Opera limitation.
There is currently no user interface to aid filter creation. We hope to provide something here soon.
Handling of abp: links on web pages isn’t implemented. This should be fixed in the next release.

Adblock Plus 1.3.1 for Google Chrome™ released · 2012-11-07 10:21 by Wladimir Palant

Install Adblock Plus for Google Chrome™

Major changes

Made “Hide placeholders of blocked elements” feature work more reliably (forum topic).
Made links on the Options page open in new tab (forum topic).
A warning is displayed for people with a corrupted file storage causing the first-run page show up on each browser start (issue description).
Removed “Disable inline text ads” feature, it was almost useless and triggered a memory leak in Chrome (forum topic, forum topic).
Fixed: Ads are sometimes blocked on whitelisted pages (forum topic).
Fixed: Exception rules don’t apply to frames correctly (forum topic).
Fixed: Requests made by javascript: or data: frames aren’t blocked.
Fixed: First-run page opens twice on initial install.

Adblock Plus 1.3 for Google Chrome™ released · 2012-10-27 00:38 by Wladimir Palant

Install Adblock Plus for Google Chrome™

Major changes

Adblock Plus for Chrome is now officially out of beta, its functionality and stability are comparable to Adblock Plus for Firefox. The user interface is still lacking, we are working on that.
Some acceptable ads are now allowed by default (Adblock Plus for Firefox had this for almost a year already, easy to disable, see full explanation).
Added a first-run page (only shows up once for each user – either on new install or after update to Adblock Plus 1.3 from an older version).
Better performance now that we rely exclusively on the webRequest API (Chrome 17 and below are no longer supported).
Added support for element hiding exceptions.
Made use of new security features in new Google Chrome versions.
Worked around Chrome issue 49001 (some websites breaking due to our element hiding).
Fixed a data corruption bug that would sometimes corrupt the filters.
Removed sending of the Do-Not-Track header now that Chrome is capable of doing it itself.
Source code license is the GNU General Public License v3.0 instead of the Mozilla Public License now.

Customizations 1.0.3 for Adblock Plus released · 2012-08-22 13:56 by Wladimir Palant

Install Customizations 1.0.3

This is the first localized release of Customizations, a bunch of translations have been added already. This is our pilot project using Crowdin for translations, feel free to register there and suggest improvements to existing translations. Other extensions will use this translation platform as well in future.

Adblock Plus 2.1.2 released · 2012-07-20 00:19 by Wladimir Palant

Install Adblock Plus 2.1.2

Changes

Some startup time and memory use improvements

Detailed changelog

Known issues