The Adblock Project

bwuke:
Just to add, in Nightly 42, you can Right-click the 'Adblock' text, at the bottom of the browser, to:a.) Enable/Disable Adblock
b.) Whitelist a page or site

fu:
We're waiting for G's consent, on filterset.G.
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Meanwhile, we'll continue updating v.5 -- for fun.

Hehe. Yes, you're right- mended. (thanks)

NightOwl326:
Try the latest build, which disables the ajax-intercept + mends memory-management for Firefox: Update.
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Zulithe:
No, I don't think div-blocking will cross over -- GreaseMonkey/RIP a ...

Henrik: be sure to check your mail.
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sarika:
I'm glad you posted here (crossed, from AMO). The auto-update you installed was Nightly 40.
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I'm hoping this fix, which was included in Nightly 41, ...

"List All Blockable Items" now shows an edit-button, for filters. Update.

zegway:
I disabled the ajax-intercept, by default, now. Try the new build: linked.

Oft-requested, now received:
The status-element finally has a context-menu. Update.

Alright, I changed my mind, and added a context-menu to the status-element. Enjoy.

bombadil:
On the user-side: it's so easy to whitelist in Nightly 40, that Filterset.G shouldn't be an issue. On G's side: he can easily include whitelisting by default, now.
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All:
An update to N ...

user:
What platform or other extensions are you running?
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It worked for me, using the same nightly under osX. Just to be sure, try a new profile + Adblock. If you follow the link to filterset.G, r ...

Fadi:
Once you've tried them a few times, Adblock's key-shortcuts should be an extremely fast way to accomplish everything except the whitelisting.
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Whitelisting was added in the latest build, as ...

Nightly 40 has gone live, and here's what's New:ClickImport
Importing is now easy as 'click'. Just Right-click inside any file ending in .txt (eg. filterset.G) or select filters directly on a webpage ...

Sadly, d2 nightly 39 would have fared alright, in the end. The reason it failed under 1.5 was actually a browser bug -- fixed in the latest versions of the trunk (Firefox 1.6a). Nothing was Adblock's ...

Rafael:
The first site fails without Adblock. If you clear your cache (Firefox Preferences> Content> Cache) you'll see it fail on reload. Since when cached it works, the issue looks timing/refl ...

I mean: you should click the Nightly 40 link -- that's why I linked it.
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Even if the problem had never been resolved, it's encapsulated in a setTimeout, and doesn't present a significant issue.

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Guest + Org: mended.

Eyal:
The window._AdblockObjects approach is no longer in use. It was originally needed due to security-restrictions on timeouts in unprivileged-context. Adblock's component is now auto-registered un ...

Org + Echo: mended; and thanks.
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Guest: post any errors, and the url they appear for; I'll be happy to check.

Confused:
Your confusion is understandable, so hopefully this will help:
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Until today, Adblock's last official update was .5 d2 Nightly 39. This went-on to be massaged into various third-party rel ...

Small footnote:
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Nightly 40 was developed with mcm onboard :)
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Cheers,
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Actually, the build currently hosted on addons.mozilla was pushed by mozilla volunteers, not our Crew. It sports a pretty bad memory-leak.
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Here's the latest internal build, for the v.5 branch: li ...

Tycho:
I think what G meant was: "please stop suggesting ideas that will put me out of business. P-lease."
..In fact, it was more of a "Psh!- puhlEEze " ..with a flick of the wrist, and marvellous ...

ShunterAlhena:
"The Adblock Crew does not comment on unreleased products. We apologize for any inconvenience, and encourage you to try the latest version of our software: Adblock v.5."
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"Happy sur ...

EnvironmentalChemistry:
Quite nice- having neutral-ground for discussion. Back last summer, the Crew and I engaged in a roundtable on the most advanced blocking-detection scenarios we thought devise- ...

J.N:
Unfortunately, your 'lookbehind' phrase isn't really anchored to the pattern-start. The first url, below, should be blocked, but isn't: /^(?=.*?banner)((?!www\.allow1\.com).)((?!www\.allow2\.co ...

Just a note to add:
Some of idbehold's posts were, indeed, helpful. I would prefer if the ban weren't needed, but he's only 16 and will hopefully acquire a more amicable persona, somewhere along the ...

Ken:
Wonko was referring to the url's length, not the filter's. He also didn't offer a complete view of the performance-difference: filter1: /myShortFilter/
filter2: "myShortFilter"
url length-50: ...

idbehold:
It's worth remembering: the only reason you know about v.6 is because I broke the silence for n39. If the decision had been anything other, you'd be wiping the tears on someone else's forum ...

Deadlines run asynchronous to perfection.
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And our internal roadmap quietly slides ahead.

Actually, this is deliberate.
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: the original request.

SnarlCat:
Adblock is presently impervious to backrefs -- it will not capture inside the expression.

SnarlCat:
/((foo(?!.*foo)|bar(?!.*bar)|snafu(?!.*snafu))((.(?!foo|bar|snafu))*.)?){3}/

HALP:
when cyber-rights was unusable, what were the symptoms?

flea13:
Embedded media are presently allowed to do as they please -- whether it's circumventing the popup-blocker to open windows.. or circumventing the content-policy system, to load banners. They o ...

HALP:
If a filter was responsible, then you'll never know which one -- you removed them all. However. An undesirable filter is not the same as the Java-bug. That bug always causes a throttling of the ...

flea13:
Could you provide the url which fails to be blocked?
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The short, vertical ad, beneath the word 'Ajánlatunk'?

G: Patience, friend. All will find answer.

Sorry- here's the reply I mentioned to kstahl but forgot to post: ]
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The Debian builds you're running are known to be "hacky" -- in stability and the patching it took to get them running.
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I s ...

guest:
No, you downloaded nightly 37 from someone's forum-link -- it was a third-party build. To avoid confusion, the official project skipped "37" for the its nightly build numbering.
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Regarding ...

sfj:
No, you can play with memory-settings under osX. The easiest way combines "wired memory" with increased process-priority. The more difficult way involves system-level alterations -- eg. Photosho ...

AlleyGater:
I've seen a similar issue, independant of Adblock -- under os9, when the browser is running short on memory. Further, Adblock also triggers those symptoms on larger, flash-inclusive sites ...

rfb:
By any chance, is your statusbar hidden at startup?
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Try re-installing Adblock, first removing it via the Extension Manager.

madblocker:
Hang on- the other thread went nowhere. If Adblock is installed and you can see the status-element, the first thing to check is the script-console. Open the problematic window, try to clo ...

And here's the explanation for the changelog:
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Adblock has undergone fairly distinct periods of development. Circa v.3, the major advances were being authored by devs, for each other. The changel ...

Ewald:
I used to have a previous version of Adblock
Search your computer for "adblock.jar". If that returns multiple copies, you've accidentally installed it twice.

idofeld:
Why not link a few examples of the code you're envisioning?
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Per Guest's remark, which course are you taking?

forrie:
Something's wrong with your setup -- either the profile or app itself. I just installed fine from that mirror.
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Try a new profile, first. Then, reinstall Firefox, perhaps updating / regres ...

That was a premature leak. I hadn't publicly linked it yet, because there was a potential conflict with the update system.
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Thankfully, testing proved well, so it's now available directly from our ...

Perchance you're on a mac, try: cmd+shift+f.

Guest:
The status-element currently has one action attached: click -> open "List All Blockable Elements". With respect to UI-elements, anything non-editable should not respond differently to left / r ...

Well, I don't know exactly what was downloaded, but grabbing the latest nightly for Windows not only left Adblock enabled, it listed these prefs for versioning: pref("app.version", "0.9.1+");
pref("a ...

Simple filters are converted to full Regular Expressions, and the wildcard (*) becomes: .* Those small filters would be faster, on an individual basis, granted they didn't employ many wildcards. But, ...

Well, rue is stuck..
I use os9 for a number of reasons; being stuck isn't one of them :P
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Roaming profiles would naturally include the pref-file -- which is where Adblock presently stores its filt ...

kstahl:
Not quite. When Firefox encounters a "version-incompatible" extension, it checks the manifest's update.rdf link to see if the max-version specified there allows compatibility. So, even though ...

By this time tomorrow, the version-compatible XPI should be propagated and available for download. I'll post again then, after confirming all mirrors.
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It will also link an update.rdf file, to keep ...

cell1527:
Why don't they edit the advanced filter post and get rid of that filter...
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Fixed. You'll now find kstahl's size-specific filter.

dontshow{display:none!important;}kstahl:
Gmail logs detailed activity -- how long you pause here or there, where your mouse moves, and what stuff you click. There was a company back in the 90's that ...

dontshow{display:none!important;}Guest:
You don't need to spend a week looking -- I've done it for you.
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Gmail's system uses script-writes to create "layers", which their virtual-links then hide a ...

bene:
No, b and c aren't redundant. You have to realize that we're architecting a whitelist of possibilities against the negative match.
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"do" is allowed. "don" is also allowed.
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Lastly, we als ...

bene:
Scroll back and read my reply.
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You can't use negative-lookahead alone to any consequence, because it only works for characters which preceed the negative-match. In other words: /.(?!s)/ wou ...

bene:
Negating via lookbehind isn't completely possible with mozilla. It's definitely not possible via standard parenthetical syntax. It's half-possible with incremental accounting for all conditions ...

johann_p:
wonko's reply strayed slightly offtopic.
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Yes, that's a potential optimization, and we had considered it. Naturally, we'll need to run tests to plot performance-gain against the trouble ...

The shield (above) was from a hacked-build, by a third-party.
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It should not be included in translations.

I am still of that opinion.
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However, since development / testing is in-house now, all future releases will be stable + eligible for localization. And since one member of the team is motivated to t ...

Bro Athanasius:
Adblock is specific to ads only in name. It can remove anything with a url.
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We presently offer filters for advertising, since that's the overarching concern of the project. But, i ...

He said "I use something like.." -- which is almost certainly true. However, zero-quantifiers ({0,0}) are not allowed; and the delimiter-syntax for lookahead was reversed.
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fade{-moz-opacity:0.5 !i ...

tnorris:
..a smaller popup saying "Click Grant if you receive any Java Security warnings..
Sounds like our known java-issue. The "helpful threads" sticky links to the prior discussion.
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The solu ...

What was your interest in them?Version .3
Version .4 I realize you wanted the xpi's, but you can roll your own with those, if you desire. Mozdev admins deleted all web-directory xpi files, earlier in ...

Whoa- hold-up.
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DrEasy posted before, and holds some expertise on machine-learning. Yes, we're interested in this. Version .6 is as far away as development takes us, and can include whatever we wan ...

There are two important points to consider when releasing a modified Adblock: i. The official builds are tested for all versions of the browser.
ii. Every UI-detail is considered and deliberate. Ad ...

Window-Q lives.
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Try again ...if you dare.

xxx:
Interesting. The new content-policy system (which Firefox uses) apparently defers a redirect's document-check to a new "refresh check". Adblock currently ignores the refresh-checks, since I assu ...

To clarify: two issues have been raised in this thread. Only one stands resolved.
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Resolved: statusbar-visibility no longer affects Adblock-load.
Open: The Firefox 0.9x extension-manager does not ...

popcorn:
You probably want the latest install of Java, linked on our dev-page.

kstahl:
when I chose "View Background Image" and then right-click it, the Adblock entry is present in the context menu but it is non functional. Is it supposed to be that way?
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Standalone elements ...

pp:
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There's a much better way. Via bookmark keywords, you can program any search to happen from your address-bar.
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Step right in.

n39 pass6: Installer, and jar-file.
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Malformed regexp wont cause disruption.

n39 pass5: Installer, and jar-file.
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Load-flow is no longer tied to the status-element.
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To fix a bug with ExternalApplicationButtons, our window-load process had been anchored to the status-ele ...

This should be interesting.
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Post your filterlist, and we'll see what's breaking stuff.

The problem appears to be: for css/background images, newer Firefox builds don't pass a node to the contentPolicy check. The right-click and "List Adblock-able" options both expect the node to have s ...

sfj:
If clicking the Adblock status-element doesn't reveal the image, post back here which browser/build + platform you're running.
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Adblock does catch background-images.

sfj:
Huh. Any relevant console errors? : Tools > JavaScript Console
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Any chance you didn't remove an older version before upgrading?

I'm going to jump into this, because it's an interesting issue.
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'Free', from the content-receiving side, is relevant to whether or not the content is paid-for by the receiving party. If it's subsi ...

Nightly 39 pass3: Installer, and jar-file.
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A few patches were lost in the final stretch.
Styled-versioning + FlashOverlay: fixed.

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kstahl:
Misaligned tabs will appear every so-often. n36 s ...

Nightly 39 pass2: Installer, and jar-file.
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Certainly a known problem now. And hopefully fixed.

nightlies 37-39
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moved to the new ContentPolicy system + merged support for the old.
correctly registered with firefox ExtensionManager; styled+overrode the version-display.
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status-element ca ...

wonko:

You should submit the changes for review, rather than just releasing them.
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Nothing you've altered is too serious. But the status-context was being reserved, for example -- no need to dup ...

The wait is over: n37 pass 3 . (right-click:save): Installer, and jar-file.
[ Obj-Tabs are presently disabled. ] The obj-tab issue actually isn't related to n36.
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I was just installing Java ( ...

wonko:
n37 is basically ready to go.
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Unfortunately, I'm not seeing any way to use the "extra" parameter with the May 28th nightly. Even passing a generic nsISupports doesn't work. n36 actually in ...

wonko:
..it's almost all trial-and-error for me..
I tried not to directly state, but "cumbersome nature" was meta-implicating your capacity. I could see you were getting a feel for things by the com ...

koniu:
As indicated, it is known to fail ( - though for different reasons than n35). I only linked because there are curious individuals and we've always been open with progress.
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Install the patc ...

Everyone:
Just a quick heads-up:
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The "patched" build is not the future of Adblock. It's a good tide-over until n37; but the reason it's failing is the cumbersome nature of its design -- essential ...

Guest:
Until a few days ago, I didn't have a regular test-crew. I'm on a mac, and the holdup was some new backend-code that wasn't working for windows. I tried irc-sessions with some mozillazine user ...

Roan:
Which build are you running? (pref-pane)
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n23 was posted silently in anticipation of n24 (which ended up needing more work). I recall fixing "ignores shutdown-save pref" somewhere in there.

Hartagold:
Load a page that you're sure should have blocked-items, but doesn't. Try and right-click : block an image. Then, open the script-console and post all relevant errors: Tools > Web Developme ...

Guest:
This blockd it here: http://g.fool.com/art/new/marketing/
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If it doesn't for you, then describe your setup: build / platform, other extensions, etc.

What's worse, even the DOM Inspector goes haywire.
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This script is the problem, setting a global "top" variable which overwrites the established window.top property for frames. Adblock also makes u ...

Ryoujin:
If you're running Camino, give it a try. The worst that can happen is: pages dont load and you have to disable Adblock.
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If you're savvy-enough to choose Camino over Safari, chances are y ...

Wolfey:
When you say the back/forward buttons "don't show up", you mean the whole menuitem, or just the CM-icon? This is the first I've heard of this, making me suspect it's a nightly / recent-build ...