Adblock Plus 0.7.5.4

Note that while Firefox 1.5, Thunderbird 1.5 and SeaMonkey 1.0 are still supported, these applications receive less testing and it is recommended to upgrade to at least Firefox 2.0, Thunderbird 2.0 or SeaMonkey 1.1. Support for older versions will likely be dropped in a few months.

Installation

multilingual build

single-language builds

K-Meleon builds

Changes

• Locales added: Hebrew, Malay
• Improved Firefox 3 compatibility
• Changed default keyboard shortcuts to Ctrl+Shift+E (preferences) and Ctrl+Shift+V (blockable items)
• Removed “Check banner links” option

Known issues

• Element hiding hits are not always registered in Firefox 3, this also prevents whitelisting rules to apply to element hiding

detailed changelog

Changes

* Hebrew (he-IL) translation added
* Support for Songbird 0.4 added, now almost everything should work like in Firefox
* Songbird 0.2/0.3 support dropped
* Added support for eMusic Remote 1.0
* Whitelisting rules now apply to element hiding rules as well (bug 14814) (won’t work properly in Firefox 3, see known issues)
* Added support for new content types previously listed as “other” (Firefox 3 only): XBL bindings, link pings, XML HTTP requests, object subrequests and DTDs (corresponding filter options are xbl, ping, xmlhttprequest, object-subrequest and dtd respectively)
* Fixed: Links in Adblock Plus dialogs don’t open (Thunderbird only)
* Fixed filter editing issues caused by landing of bug 398135
* Fixed: input focus not put back to the filter list after editing a list (Minefield only)
* Fixed: The entry “No blockable items on current page” in the list of filter suggestions should not be selectable
* Fixed: Error messages when inserting filters in Preferences
* Fixed: Account for new XUL iframe behavior in Firefox 3 (documents load in invisible iframes as well now)
* Support for Moblin browser added — untested

It seems that Adblock Plus was chosen as one of 100 best products of 2007. This is pretty remarkable since the list consists not only from software solutions but has lots of hardware and services as well. From what I can see, Adblock Plus is the only Firefox extension chosen this year (last year StumbleUpon, NoScript and Greasemonkey made it). Also, it seems that I was the only physical person who received the award this year, most others being larger companies like Google or Intel.

Major changes

• Added translations for Estonian and Frisian
• Fixed the bug that emptied the filter list in some very rare cases
• Fixed a few minor issues with Adblock Plus 0.7.5
• All columns in the list of blockable items are visible by default now that there is space for them
• Improved K-Meleon support

Major changes

• List of blockable items is displayed at the bottom of the browser window
  
• Element hiding improvements: matches are now counted and appear in list of
  blockable items
  
• Subscriptions can now be moved to new locations without inconveniences for
  users
  
• Support for additional blocking features in Firefox 2.0.0.4 and higher
  
• Compatibility with K-Meleon 1.1

• Mac OS X: Flash movies might not be displayed properly if “Show tabs on
  Flash and Java” option is switched on

Major changes

• Fixed context menu when “Check banner links” option is switched on
  
• Tabs on Flash and Java should no longer break page layout
  
• Closed a way for web sites to detect Adblock Plus by abusing bug 292789 in Gecko
  
• Made handling of different object types more consistent

Known issues

• Adblock Plus triggers a bug in Firefox 2.0 causing some extensions (e.g.
  Google Notebook) and websites to break. And upgrade to Firefox 2.0.0.1 will fix
  this.