May 9th, 2013· Fixed: Server names with a trailing dot were mistakenly treated as typos.
· Fixed a Firefox 22 compatibility issue (no colors/imaages in filters list and list of blockable items).
February 14th, 2013· This release mostly works around breakage caused by AVG Security Toolbar 14.0.3.* extension, it prevented Adblock Plus from working correctly among other things.
January 31st, 2013· Worked around regression in Firefox 18 causing entries on the blockable items list to disappear and preventing context menu from working reliably.
· Issue reporter now encourages users to enter an email address when submitting issue reports.
· Removed Do-Not-Track handling which is redundant with Firefox supporting it as well (blog post).
· Added support for per-window private browsing in Firefox 20.
· Fixed: Changes in Firefox 19 broke issue reporter.
· Fixed: "null" access keys show up in Firefox 20.
· Fixed: Context menu broken on background images in Firefox 20.
November 23rd, 2012· Fixed issue affecting loading of filters in old Firefox version (including Firefox 10).
· Fixed wrong apostrophe encoding in translations (especially Italian).
November 22nd, 2012· New typo correction feature helps avoid landing on malicious web pages (not enabled by default) - see https://adblockplus.org/blog/typo-correction-feature-in-adblock-plus.
· Code license change: GNU General Public License version 3.0 instead of Mozilla Public License version 2.0
· Minor fixes
July 25th, 2012· Some startup performance and memory use improvements
July 4th, 2012· Improved startup performance.
· Filter preferences: improved display in right-to-left locales.
· Fixed: Adblock Plus might break extensions like IE Tab using NPAPI plugins.
· Fixed: Filter subscriptions are no longer being updated automatically.
· Fixed: Firefox Sync support isn't working.
June 29th, 2012· Adblock Plus can be installed without restarting the browser now.
· Added support for Firefox Mobile 14.
· Improved Thunderbird integration.
· Updated for upcoming Firefox releases (especially Firefox 15).
December 27th, 2011· Improved texts describing "non-intrusive ads" feature.
· Made toolbar icon properly customizable in Thunderbird.
· Fixed: Filter editing is broken in Firefox 3.6.
· Firefox Mobile: Fixed user interface to handle "non-intrusive ads" feature properly.
December 15th, 2011· Experimental pop-up blocking support for the cases where the built-in pop-up blocker fails.
· New Filter Preferences dialog makes managing filters and subscriptions
· Custom filters can be organized into any number of filter groups.
· Backup and Restore functionality allows creating a copy of all filter preferences, not just custom filters.
· Added “Allow non-intrusive advertising” setting (can be changed in Filter Preferences, see http://adblockplus.org/en/acceptable-ads).
September 28th, 2011· Added Latvian and Albanian translations.
· Fixed some minor issues.
· Some users will be asked to complete a survey about Adblock Plus.
July 4th, 2011· Added experimental support for Firefox Sync
· New extension icons
· Updated for changes in Thunderbird 5
· Various minor fixes
May 24th, 2011· Fixed: Corruption in Adblock Plus data files might result in Adblock Plus being unable to block anything
· Fixed some minor SeaMonkey 2.1 issues
· Some minor improvements to the issue reporter
May 16th, 2011· Added Brasilian Portuguese translation again
· Slightly improved performance
· Fixed a potential memory leak (only occurring under rare conditions)
· Various minor fixes
April 7th, 2011· "Recommend us on Facebook" button can now be easily hidden (click the cross next to it).
· New translations: Esperanto, Upper Sorbian
· Improved display of web addresses in Adblock Plus user interface for right-to-left languages (Hebrew, Arabic).
· Various stability improvements
March 27th, 2011· Added support for Firefox Mobile 4
· Added support for Do Not Track proposal
· Special icon state for "whitelisted" webpages removed
· Various performance improvements
December 27th, 2010· Fixed Adblock Plus 1.3.2 regression: Subscription downloads fail with some proxy servers
December 10th, 2010· Persian translation added again, some other translations updated.
· Issue reporter: Page referrer is being sent to allow recognizing/investigating pop-up issues more easily.
· Issue reporter: Sending a report is no longer possible in some scenarios (prevents useless reports).
· Fixed: Element hiding rules stop working after they have been subject to an exception (bug 23257).
· Fixed: Toolbar icon's text shows up to the right of the icon rather than below it (forum topic).
· Fixed: Hit counts might not get saved when the browser is closed (Firefox 4 only).
· Fixed: Links in About dialog open in an external application on Linux (bug 23441).
· Fixed: List of recently reported issues has horizontal scrolling with some themes (forum topic).
· Fixed: Toolbar icon is broken in SeaMonkey Mail nightly builds.
· Fixed: Dragging a filter in Preferences might cause "unresponsive script" warning.
· Fixed: "Invalid XBL binding" warning in Firefox 4.
· Fixed: Adblock Plus is confusing memory leak detection tools, a bogus leak is being reported.
August 18th, 2010· Updates to support Firefox 4 nightly builds and Firefox 4 Beta 3
· Subscription dialog: Made "Add a different subscription" button less prominent
· Subscription dialog: Fixed bad Chinese translation for the "Add a different subscription" button
July 10th, 2010· Updates to support Firefox 4 nightly builds and upcoming Firefox 4 Beta 2
· Preferences: more reliable formatting of dates
· Fixed: Tabs on Flash and Java display badly on some webpages
· Fixed: Comments would sometimes be interpreted as element hiding rules
April 30th, 2010· Fixed regression: filter hits were counted in private browsing mode
· Fennec fix: subscription page no longer showing on each update
January 7th, 2010· Fixed regression: filter hits were counted in private browsing mode
· Fennec fix: subscription page no longer showing on each update
December 13th, 2009· Minimal Fennec 1.0 support (at least Beta 6 required)
· Made subscription downloads support load balancing, downloads can be distributed to several servers now
· Subscription downloads no longer fail if network.http.redirection-limit preference is misconfigured
· List of filter subscriptions no longer offered only on first installation, also offered on update if the user has neither filter subscriptions nor own filters
· Improved recognition of document source for $domain option in the filters
August 13th, 2009· Added ChinaList as recommended filter subscription.
· Fixed: Very bad performance on some webpages.
· Made sure that collapsing of blocked elements works reliably again and that Image Toolbar extension doesn’t disable this feature (bug 21278)
· Made Adblock Plus initialization more bulletproof, it can no longer be disrupted by other extensions like FoxyProxy or Sxipper (forum topic).
· Worked around a bug in .NET Framework Assistant causing Adblock Plus user interface to break (forum topic).
· Fixed: “Apply” button doesn’t enable in Preferences if a filter subscription is moved with the mouse (bug 21337).
· Fixed: List of blockable items occasionally misses out some items if it is open while page is loading.
· Fixed: Error shows up in Error Console if Adblock Plus needs to process certain types of addresses (forum topic).
July 13th, 2009Known issues:
· Thunderbird: When clicking “Subscribe” in the subscription list on first run, the entire Thunderbird window is closed. This should be fixed in Thunderbird soon (bug 503299).
· SeaMonkey: Toolbar icon looks ugly with the Modern theme. Modern theme doesn’t seem to consider the possibility of extensions, using it with Adblock Plus isn’t recommended.
· Some translations contain untranslated English strings.
New features:
· Added handling of HTTP redirects, the redirect address now shows up in the list of blockable items as well as the original address, both can be blocked.
· Added support for flexible anchors at start of filter (forum topic).
· Added support for ^ character that will match a single separator character or end of address (forum topic).
· Added support for domain exceptions in element hiding analogous to the $domain option of regular filters, e.g. “example.com,~foo.example.com##foo” or “~example.com##foo” (forum topic).
User interface:
· “Block” button on plug-ins (e.g. Flash or Java) is no longer shown permanently, it only shows up when the mouse is on the plug-in area.
· Added “Re-enable Adblock Plus on this page” context menu item for pages where Adblock Plus is disabled, this removes/disables the filter responsible.
· Browser integration code runs in its own context now, this makes conflicts with other extensions less likely.
· Changed the way “add subscription” links work, these can now only be triggered by user clicking a link.
· Added diagnostic page displaying all errors related to Adblock Plus as well as Adblock Plus version/source code revision, can be opened by typing chrome://adblockplus/content/errors.html into the location bar.
· Fixed: ABP icon updates its status every two seconds, hogs CPU time.
· Fixed: Detection of background images breaks the context menu.
· Fixed: “Disable on …” doesn’t work correctly if the exception rule already exists but is disabled.
· Fixed: “Disable on …” doesn’t work correctly with rules that already exist in filter subscriptions rather than user-defined filters.
· Fixed: Input focus issues when closing list of blockable items in current Firefox nightly builds.
List of blockable items:
· Added “document source” column, hidden by default (domain name to be used for the $domain filter option, forum topic).
· Added “Disable this filter on example.com” context menu item for user-defined filters (adds $domain option as required).
· Fixed: Creating a filter for an item matching a disabled exception rule wasn’t possible again (forum topic).
Preferences window:
· “Slow filter” warning is now a separate list column which can be used for sorting.
· Using browser’s real find bar now instead of faking it.
· “Close” button moved to the right side of the filter editor, made the button use Firefox 3 look.
· Improved position calculations for the filter editor, no longer makes the text position change.
· Fixed: Enabling/disabling many element hiding rules at once is slow.
· When a list of filters is pasted or imported, always insert comments before the filter that follows them (forum topic, forum topic).
· Fixed: Adding a filter subscription that redirects to a different address causes download failure.
· Fixed: Same filter might appear twice in the list in a particular scenario.
· Fixed: Wrong row is selected when the window is opened (worked around bug 489881).
Filter composer:
· Added flexible anchors as an option – “at the beginning of domain name” (forum topic).
· Added “example.com^” as fourth suggestion, block the entire domain (forum topic).
· Added warning when adding a filter to a disabled filter group (forum topic).
Application support:
· Dropped compatibility with old application versions and cleaned up code, now requiring at least: Firefox 3.0.9, SeaMonkey 2.0b1, Thunderbird 3.0b3, Songbird 1.2, Prism 1.0b1.
· Moved almost all application-specific code to the overlay file corresponding with that application, this should make application-specific changes easier in future.
· Fixed: Toolbar icon cannot be moved to a different location (SeaMonkey).
· Fixed: Toolbar icon might be added in one window but not another on first start (SeaMonkey and Thunderbird).
· Fixed: Indentation of some menu items of the toolbar icon’s menu too large (Songbird).
· Fixed: Adblock Plus initialization fails (Prism).
Core:
· Added explicit support for blocking fonts (@font-type CSS directive in Firefox 3.5).
· Clearing browsing history in Firefox now clears hit statistics in Adblock Plus as well (this can be disabled with the hidden extensions.adblockplus.clearStatsOnHistoryPurge preference, forum topic).
· Cleaned up data management code, made sure Adblock Plus doesn’t use up more memory than necessary.
· Fixed: Webpages can easily detect “Collapse blocked elements” option.
· Fixed: An error is reported to console on first run (patterns.ini not found).
· Fixed: Domain-restricted filters were applied to pages opened from disk.
April 16th, 2009· New translation: Serbian
· Element hiding works in Firefox 3.0.9 and higher again (forum topic, broken by fix for bug 416942)
· Regular expressions with $domain options are recognized correctly
· Blockable items: when copying addresses or filters to clipboard platform’s linebreaks are used as separator (previously: Unix linebreaks)
· Preferences: using more compact date formatting for last hit column and last download of subscription
January 10th, 2009· New translations: Icelandic, Kazakh
· List of recommended filter subscriptions extended and made scrollable again
· Start-up performance improvements by Nickolay Ponomarev (bug 20410, bug 20411, bug 20412)
· Added a possibility to restrict filters to some domains with the $domain=foo.com|bar.com option (documentation, forum topic)
· Blockable items: Matching disabled filters now displayed — for easier re-enabling (forum topic)
· Blockable items: New state icon for items matching disabled filters
· Blockable items: Clicking in the State column now disables/re-enables the filter
· Blockable items: Opening in new tab works properly in Songbird now
· Blockable items: Searching for filter text now possible as well
· Filter composer: extensions.adblockplus.composer_default preference now decides which suggestion should be selected by default (forum topic)
· Filter composer: Added “Select all” and “Select none” for type checkboxes (forum topic)
· Preferences: “Tip of the day” replaced by “Getting started” in Help menu
· Toolbar button now has a context menu (same as dropdown menu)
· Added support for item type “media” (will be added in Firefox 3.1 for HTML audio/video tags)
· Format version is now being saved to patterns.ini
· Regression fixed: Frames are not collapsed in some situations (forum topic)
· Fixed: Toolbar button shouldn’t have the same title as the Tools menu item
· Fixed: Element hiding might change page layout even on whitelisted sites (forum topic, issue still exists in Firefox 2.0)
· Fixed: Filter list in Preferences sometimes won’t update properly if filters are added/removed (forum topic)
· Fixed: Removed filters still apply if two different filters were translated into same regular expression
· Fixed: Filters like “[Foo]” mess up filter storage file
· Fixed: Filter list import doesn’t remove checksum comment
· Object tabs no longer shown for invisible objects
· Changed placement of object tabs in document to avoid breaking some sites (forum topic)
· K-Meleon: Fixed handling of some menu items in toolbar icon’s menu
· Fixed: Element hiding doesn’t work for chrome documents (Firefox 2.0/Thunderbird 2.0 only, forum topic)
· Fixed: $collapse flag not being read correctly from patterns.ini
· Fixed: Toolbar button shouldn’t have a drop-down arrow if extensions.adblockplus.defaulttoolbaraction preference is 0
December 2nd, 2008Known 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
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