May 18th, 2013· Removed the nag when switching to the older panel
· Added an upgrade check for library updates: now tracker library is replaced only if the embedded tracker library is newer than the current bug library
· Resolved an unresponsive script issue when parsing image data:uri sources
· Fixed reporting issue for redirects occurring on the sub-frame level
· Fixed a memory leak
April 20th, 2013· Corrected query string removal for tracker detection within content policy. This addresses common video players like Bloomberg's.
· Added frame results reset. This caused a memory leak over extended periods of time.
· GhostRank changes to make it less chatty.
March 20th, 2013· Ghostery prevented some links (especially from emails) from opening in Firefox without proper notification. This release addresses this issue by allowing all first party requests to complete as expected
· Supported browsers versions bump
March 6th, 2013· Ghostery erroneously allowed certain type of content through the content policy such as CSS. This version fixes this issue
· Click-to-play for certain buttons (Pinterest, Google+, Facebook) wasn't being reported correctly when allowed once
· Miscellaneous bug fixes
March 1st, 2013· Added restart confirmation when switching to the new or old panel since its required.
· Fixed corrupted database file.
February 28th, 2013· Bugs: 1361
· Cookies/LSOs: 754
· New features and bug fixes in 2.9.0
· Massively improved Ghostery panel with awesome new features like site compatibility warnings, 1-click controls, and selective tracker whitelisting.
· Faster blocking
· Miscellaneous bug fixes
January 8th, 2013· Fixed an issue that prevented Ghostery from operating normally in the latest Nighlies (v20+) releases of Firefox
September 20th, 2012· Fixed an issue in which Ghostery removed too many elements in sub-frames
· Fixed an issue where Ghostery CSS would overwrite OS specific Firefox styles (Ubuntu)
September 10th, 2012· New panel UI for Ghostery
· Fixed issue with reappearing toolbar Ghostery icon
· Click-to-play optimization: inline replacement of common scripts like Twitter Button, Facebook Like, etc
· Click-to-play, purple box and UI box all show the correct tracker that was acted on
· Click-to-play now toggles cookies as well as trackers when allowing through click-to-play UI
· Removed DOM mutation scanning
July 24th, 2012· Fixed an issue where Ghostery would remove extra buttons and other stuff from iframes
· Addressed an intermittent "Unresponsive Scripts" that were triggered when Firefox would wake up from prolonged non-use.
July 3rd, 2012· Content policy and dom scanner now comprise a single "true" reporting engine. What that means in practice is that Ghostery will attempt to produce best possible list results by combining what content policy "saw" pass through it and what dom scanner "sees" on any given page. This will also prevent failure of either part (content policy or dom scanner) from completely shutting down Ghostery.
· Tracker priority is now in place, meaning that some of the tracker entries will now have elevated or lowered priority, with vast majority remaining "regular". The priority matters in cases where have generic matching for example: DART or OpenX and the places where a tracker is sub-tracker, for example, any privacy entry.
· Click-to-play overlays have been introduced for Brightcove, Disqus, Intense Debate, and several social buttons
· wizard has been modified slightly: now with arrows
· options/wizard have indeterminate boxes for categories that are partly selected
· Ghosty on the nav bar now behaves like Chrome release: if for any reason, the page is "unblocked" it will be gray instead of blue
· Miscellaneous bug fixes
March 15th, 2012· Resolved a bug that created a zombie compartment
· Ghostery shortcut has been changed to CTRL + ALT + G
· Resolved an issue with the popup auto-closing on Linux machines
· Added warning and cookie blocker disabling when a colliding addon is present
· Ghostery will now remove blocked elements from DOM
· Miscellaneous UI and bug fixes.
January 24th, 2012· Resolved an issue new options and walk-through not translating properly in some cases
January 23rd, 2012· New options and walk through wizard pages for easier understanding and consumption
· Application and company info built into Ghostery options
· General file, defaults and variable cleanup
· Secure library update pages have been enabled
· Library update notification toggles
· Miscellaneous bug fixes
November 8th, 2011· Added full German and French translations.
· Cookie and LSO blocking selections were not being applied correctly in previous 2.6 releases.
· Added error messages to indicate bug library manual update failures (on Ghostery's options page).
· Blocked bugs were not shown as crossed-out in the purple alert bubble in certain cases.
· Several bugs in the library were not getting blocked by Ghostery when they were supposed to.
· Closing Ghostery's options page will no longer close Firefox when no other windows are open.
· Updated file permissions for user preferences and bug lists to read/write instead of read/write/execute.
· Fixed purple alert bubble flickering.
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