The Adblock Project

mcm_ham · Joined: 17 Dec 2004 Posts: 310

Official Adblock has now been updated. With a lot more stuff added by rue including whitelisting. You can check it out here:

https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=10

G · Joined: 10 Oct 2004 Posts: 550

Tabs for blocked sites are both useable and closeable.
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mcm_ham · Joined: 17 Dec 2004 Posts: 310

Yeah, you're right it seems to work fine on Firefox 1.0.x, it's only the trunk builds affected. In the code if the page is to load it returns "apiConstants.ACCEPT", but if it's blocked then it doesn't return anything. I simply added a return statement for "apiConstants.REJECT_REQUEST" and that fixed the problem on the trunk builds.

Zachariah · Joined: 21 Jul 2004 Posts: 703 Location: Earth

I'd appreciate it if rue (and other devs) would make mcm_ham's version the latest official dev build on the adblock.mozdev.org/dev.html page and on https://addons.mozilla.org/ -- or give us a reason why not.

that ^ is the important part, while this part is desirable but not necessary:

maybe call it "Adblock 0.5 d2 nightly 39b"

(or the "39b" could be "40" ... or the version number could be simplified to "0.5.5" much like Mozilla Firefox will be going to x.5 soon (skipping .1))
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Guest · Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 Post subject: !

Perhaps it is time to fork the project.

Guest · Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 Post subject:

Anyone knows why there are no more updates on adblock.mozdev.org?

Zachariah · Joined: 21 Jul 2004 Posts: 703 Location: Earth

Guest · Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 Post subject:

JavaScript Console:

Error: Expected color but found 'default'. Error in parsing value for property 'border-color'. Declaration dropped.
Source File: chrome://adblock/content/adblock.css
Line: 33

Error: Expected color but found 'default'. Error in parsing value for property 'border-color'. Declaration dropped.
Source File: chrome://adblock/content/adblock.css
Line: 35

Ken Cooper · Joined: 29 Dec 2004 Posts: 110 Location: Holland, MI USA

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[quote="Ken Cooper"]

Guest · Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 Post subject:

original adblock is dead: http://aasted.org/adblock/viewtopic.php?t=2251

One year for developing a new version ist too much. Adblock Plus is now the new official version! Adblock is not maintained anymore.

G · Joined: 10 Oct 2004 Posts: 550

I don't think you know what the word "official" means.
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Guest · Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 Post subject:

Devs of original adblock do not care about it. They do not appear/support/develop/answer... their practically not available...

So why should they now appear and announce end of development? Rolling Eyes

Do you still believe in Santa?

G · Joined: 10 Oct 2004 Posts: 550

rue doesn't post much anymore, but wonkothesane is around.

I'm guessing that they don't answer questions here often because the same things are asked every single day, and they're tired of answering them. Instead, users like Zachariah, Org, and many others have taken up the task, leaving them with little reason to respond to more inane repeats of "Is Adblock Dead?" threads themselves.
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Benoit · Guest

me · Guest

Geez, you'd think they could make just some minor change and bump the version up a bit just to show that something, ANYTHING is progressing.

That, or just rename it and move forward with the same code...

Guest · Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2005 Post subject:

I now see Adblock Plus.

Maybe THAT should just be renamed and then people can install THAT and move forward from there. How about "Ad-be-gone"? Very Happy

Zachariah · Joined: 21 Jul 2004 Posts: 703 Location: Earth

"Object Block" would be a better name IMO (for either/both project(s))
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Guest · Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 Post subject:

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Guest · Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 Post subject: Help!

Ok I downloaded Adblock 0.5.2.039
(Click here to download). Now what do I do?

mcm_ham · Joined: 17 Dec 2004 Posts: 310

Clicking on the Adblock link itself will bring up the installer. But if you want to download it then to install you need to drag the file onto an open browser window. Alternatively you can install the file by going to "File->Open File...".

Guest · Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 Post subject:

blaah, I keep falling for this thread.. for the second time I'm like, SWEET! Finally Adblock for trunk nightlies *click* Awww, damn Smile

mcm_ham · Joined: 17 Dec 2004 Posts: 310

Well actually after some help, the version listed here should now work with the trunk nightlies. Try installing it again.

It also looks like the patch for Bug 302276 has finally landed on the branch. I haven't tried getting Adblock to work with this new security feature but have just turned it off. Unless the official Adblock version is changed soon we are going to see a lot of complaints about Adblock not working with Firefox 1.5 beta when that's released to the public.

Ken Cooper · Joined: 29 Dec 2004 Posts: 110 Location: Holland, MI USA

mcm_ham · Joined: 17 Dec 2004 Posts: 310

Actually that issue was corrected a month ago so you probably already have it. But if you were talking about the fix for the trunk builds then you can grab the latest unofficial version here.

By the looks of it though, the fix mentioned for the trunk also solves an issue that's appeared recently on the branch builds that causes Firefox to not close when "Clear private data when closing Deer Park" is enabled.

Guest · Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2005 Post subject:

Great work! BTW, are there any differences between adblock_plus_0.5.9.2.xpi and Adblock_Plus_0.5.9.2_enh.xpi? Thanks.

mcm_ham · Joined: 17 Dec 2004 Posts: 310

No, the extensionmirror moderators just add "_enh" to any extension that's a mod of another one.

bzbarsky · Joined: 21 Aug 2005 Posts: 2

> Turn off secure access to content objects, otherwise
> Adblockable-Items list is empty, see site.

Is there any way to make things work without this change? What does adblock actually need to get at from chrome?

Please contact me at "b z at m i t dot e d u" with details? If nothing else, maybe we can make use of xbl:implements in a useful way here....

mcm_ham · Joined: 17 Dec 2004 Posts: 310

Thanks for your help bzbarsky, Adblock is storing information about elements in an array at the top DOM level and is the major source of problem. I'm learning about XPCNativeWrapper now to know how to handle it but it seems like a never ending string of changes I'm having to make so is taking me a while.

mcm_ham · Joined: 17 Dec 2004 Posts: 310

I'm a bit busy at the moment to sort these out (will happen next week) so will just list the bugs that affect Adblock for reference:

If the filter list is really long like Filterset.G plus 20 more, selecting a filter near the bottom causes that filter to not be highlightable next time preference panel starts.
Get XPCNativeWrapper to work without resorting to turning it off.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=306754

adblockuser · Guest

thanks as this build in this window fixed it. Should change the number of the build as that is confusing. I really see the biggest hang up with the future of ff to be the fact that their are hundreds of extensions that people really love that are disabled on every upgrade of ff. That is going to discourage upgrading and make people give up on the product. I like the way the extensions all check for upgrades but of the 20 I had in deer park alpha 2 now about 4 work with ff1.5 beta. Adblocker is a must. I love the way it rips ads out of sites. Ill bet it really pisses off commercial website owners, and once it becomes mainstream it will be defeated. "Turn off adblocker or you cant look at our site!!!"

adblockuser · Guest

thanks as this build in this window fixed it. Should change the number of the build as that is confusing. I really see the biggest hang up with the future of ff to be the fact that their are hundreds of extensions that people really love that are disabled on every upgrade of ff. That is going to discourage upgrading and make people give up on the product. I like the way the extensions all check for upgrades but of the 20 I had in deer park alpha 2 now about 4 work with ff1.5 beta. Adblocker is a must. I love the way it rips ads out of sites. Ill bet it really pisses off commercial website owners, and once it becomes mainstream it will be defeated. "Turn off adblocker or you cant look at our site!!!"

mcm_ham · Joined: 17 Dec 2004 Posts: 310

Shall do, once I get the remaining issues sorted (won't have a just to look at them until a week away) I'll bump the version number to 0.5.3.

Guest · Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2005 Post subject: Re: Adblock - Fixed version here!

Guest · Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2005 Post subject:

hey man, why do you write so much? No developer is reading it, so your work was useless.

ADBLOCK IS NOT DEVELOPED ANY MORE!!

Zachariah · Joined: 21 Jul 2004 Posts: 703 Location: Earth

1 mcm_ham, I would like to request that you make obj-tabs be OFF by default on this fixed version.

2

mcm_ham · Joined: 17 Dec 2004 Posts: 310

I agree Zachariah, it should be off by default now. I've made the version 0.5.2.050 to avoid confusion and when it's ready will label it 0.5.3.

Raymond · Guest

the link:

(Click here to download)

is linked to adblock-0.5.2.039 instead of adblock-0.5.2.050.xpi

can you fix it?

mcm_ham · Joined: 17 Dec 2004 Posts: 310

Thanks, I've changed the link now.

Tel · Guest

I had the problem of Flash not loading and Ads not blocking with Firefox 1.5b1 and the official Adblocl release on addons.mozilla.org . With this latest Adblock it's work fine now. Smile

Raymond · Guest

Hello,

can you update the website http://adblock.mozdev.org/dev.html
with the latest build?

There are only linked the nightly build 39

Thanks

Raymond

Zachariah · Joined: 21 Jul 2004 Posts: 703 Location: Earth

Guest · Guest

Well, guys, I can only say congrats on managing to have the drawbacks of both open source, and proprietary software, simultaneously.

As far as I can tell, there is only one source for the "official" source code, and it is apparently 1 year old (probably obsolete?) code. How can we have "many eyes finding bugs quickly" when there's only 4 eyes (2 devs) who can see the REAL official code? I understand how CVS can be annoying, but without updating it, any time an outside developer wants to help, he can only fix old code that's probably already been fixed.

Please keep the CVS repository updated, so that other developers might be able to help most easily.

Guest · Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 Post subject:

Well it seems Flash Player 8 final has now been released. Unfortunately Obj-tabs still stop flash clips from appearing. So just commenting here as yet another issue to look into.

http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash

Mahakala · Guest

hi there,

after a new installation of adblock flash isn't still be played but the adblock-item is show where it should be.
can you help? win xp sp1.

thanks,
thomas

Guest · Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 Post subject:

The main reason I install adblock is to block flash, Shame it isn't working. I can't go back to 1.0.6 as the new firefox has too many good features I would miss.

Guest · Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 Post subject:

Mahakala · Guest

GUEST · Guest

Adblock iFrame and Image can not work in 1.6a1.2005091817

Guest · Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 Post subject: Re: !

Guest · Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 Post subject:

How's that compared to Adblock Plus?

Guest · Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 Post subject:

The current Trunk builds are totally screwed up if you use AdBlock - the Fx devs are saying it's AdBlock's fault; is there any chance of a fix? The internet without AdBlock is Shock

guest · Guest

I don't know what exactly was changed to make it work but now that I've installed .050 over .039, wmp is now working as it did when I was running 1.06.

It was a strange problem. I reinstalled firefox to try and fix a table bug that was causing text to disappear and found that even though I could hear videos being played, nothing would show on screen, not even the player itself. This problem wasn't addressed in the media player thread on mozillazine.

Just wanted to drop in and say thanks for fixing whatever it was that was causing the problem.

Guest · Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 Post subject:

(bump)

Guest · Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 Post subject:

Note to moderators: Please make this topic a sticky! Confused

Guest · Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 Post subject:

what about the latest firefox trunk build and images not working

Firefox-user! · Guest

Thank you!

Guest · Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 Post subject:

I am using FF version 1.0.7 is there an adblock update for this FF version? When I go into adv in FF to update it says: that it has found some errors in updating.

Guest · Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2005 Post subject:

Zachariah · Joined: 21 Jul 2004 Posts: 703 Location: Earth

guest · Guest

UT · Guest

What's the story with flash plugin 8.0?

I can either block flash or allow it - is there anyway to choose which sites you wish to display flash?

Alan · Joined: 16 May 2005 Posts: 58

NJH · Joined: 13 Nov 2003 Posts: 183 Location: Hampshire, England

I've not tested it, but can you not block anything with .swf then whitelist what you want to keep?

Zachariah · Joined: 21 Jul 2004 Posts: 703 Location: Earth

Guest · Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 Post subject:

Zachariah · Joined: 21 Jul 2004 Posts: 703 Location: Earth

Guest · Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 Post subject:

[quote="Zachariah"]

Guest · Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 Post subject:

[quote="Zachariah"]

Mugros · Joined: 28 Sep 2004 Posts: 38

The extension formerly known as "Adblock"

Guest · Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2005 Post subject: this works in the 1.5 beta as well

I ran into an issue with Adblock and firefox 1.5 beta 1 where the right-click adblock menu would not come up. This latest version seems to work fine so far. Thanks for the update.

Guest · Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 Post subject:

Espenfjo · Guest

mcm_ham · Joined: 17 Dec 2004 Posts: 310

KingOfChaos · Guest

Which version works for beta 1.5?

mcm_ham · Joined: 17 Dec 2004 Posts: 310

TimTucker · Guest

mcm_ham -- Thanks for the latest update. It seems to be working great in the latest SeaMonkey nightlies.

KingOfChaos · Guest

Well, something is wonky. When I click on the link, it asks me to download the file instead of install it like a normal extension would.

mcm_ham · Joined: 17 Dec 2004 Posts: 310

If you click on the big Adblock link it will bring up the installer. You must of clicked on here which will download the file instead.

MoonMoon · Guest

Guest · Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 Post subject:

Moderators: -->PLEASE<-- make this topic sticky!

RoelSan · Guest

Zachariah · Joined: 21 Jul 2004 Posts: 703 Location: Earth

Guest · Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 Post subject:

I've just installed the current version and during the install it lists the version number as 0.5.2.052 but after restarting Firefox the version number is listed as 'nightly 51' under Tools - Extensions. Is this just a naming oversight or has the link not been updated yet?

Guest · Guest

Have no problem here, the version name is shown correctly.

Guest · Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 Post subject:

Yes, i've just installed it again and now i'm getting 'nightly 52'. I guess someone surreptitiously sneaked the right version in there since my last post.

mcm_ham · Joined: 17 Dec 2004 Posts: 310

Ah sorry, you must have downloaded not long after I first uploaded. There were a couple of other places I needed to enter the version information which I fixed a couple of hours later. Didn't read your post otherwise I would of responded.

In case people were wandering, the change from 50 to 51 was the alt text bug on the trunk and from 51 to 52 the site blocked page fix (which I bet not many people knew Adblock even had). Although that last fix still has issues where it's meant to add the page to history so you can do things like hit refresh and opening a blocked link in a tab seems to load in the current tab (not dealt with in the original code).

anonn · Guest

rue seems active at mozillazine forums, in the session saver thread:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/search.php?search_author=rue

maybe someone should PM him and ask if he has adblock 0.6 in the works Smile

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mcm_ham · Joined: 17 Dec 2004 Posts: 310

I doubt rue would appreciate lots of private messages. But the developers have already stated that Adblock 0.6 is in the works and that it has been rewritten pretty much from scratch but there is still functionality that needs implementing. You'll get nothing different then that from rue if he does choose to respond.

guest666 · Guest

download link is dead.

anyone have it hosted on a mirror? or torrent?

anything?

mcm_ham · Joined: 17 Dec 2004 Posts: 310

Ok, I've changed the link to point to a different site but will probably change it back when the site is back up.

Guest · Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 Post subject:

Wanda · Guest

A week after upgrading to FF 1.5b2, then with every version of Adblock on this list so far, I no longer seem to be able to turn off image-blocking (of illustrations) on web pages where I previously blocked them because they were attached to garish ads. Complete uninstall of program and extension in all possible orders has failed. Right-clicking on the ad doesn't bring up a context menu choice, and neither deleting all of the blocked sites, turning off the extension, or removing as many parts of it as I can locate seems to help.

I'd actually like to use Adblock as I did before, but if/as that appears no longer possible I wonder if anyone can help with info about how to remove it completely from my system. Without formatting the HD.

Thanks,
Wanda

mcm_ham · Joined: 17 Dec 2004 Posts: 310

It will be caused by some of your filters, which remain in your Firefox profile even if you uinstall Adblock. To remove all filters go to "Tools->Adblock->Preferences->Adblock Options->Remove All Filters". If you do want to continue using Adblock then I suggest taking a look at the filters G provides. They are well tested and if you have problems you can report them in his forum:
http://pierceive.com/

Zachariah · Joined: 21 Jul 2004 Posts: 703 Location: Earth

Guest · Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 Post subject:

Zachariah · Joined: 21 Jul 2004 Posts: 703 Location: Earth

oh ... usually people bump because a question was unanswered ... just wanted to make sure I didn't miss anything, 'cause I couldn't figure out what the question was
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