Will the old "Block Element" functionality ever be restored?
Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2018 2:34 am
I understand why it happened, but the 3.0 update catastrophically damaged the Firefox extension's Block Element functionality - the incredibly powerful, versatile system that gave us a complete overview of the document structure and allowed us to carefully write filters based on that has been replaced with a worthless placeholder-stub of a thing that just has a single text box and no useful information. The degradation in quality was severe enough that I delayed updating Firefox for months in hopes that the Block Element input would be brought somewhere close to where it was before, but it doesn't seem to have progressed at all.
Are we going to get something comparable to the pre-3.0 Block Element / Element Hiding Helper interface, or is it just gone forever? Even though I understand the changes to Firefox that made it necessary, it's still honestly a bit shocking to me that a tool I use so often could degrade so sharply in quality over the course of a single update.
Are we going to get something comparable to the pre-3.0 Block Element / Element Hiding Helper interface, or is it just gone forever? Even though I understand the changes to Firefox that made it necessary, it's still honestly a bit shocking to me that a tool I use so often could degrade so sharply in quality over the course of a single update.