The Adblock Project

[zyrill]

hey guys! i LOVE adblock and have been using and recommending it to all my friends - it's one of the most useful extensions (among single window, mouse gestures and session saver). since i'm always testing and bugchecking the nightlies i'd appreciate it greatly if you guys could add the newer branches to your supported list as well - i'm sure adblock will work without changes but i don't want to install it by hand every time because the xpi says this version is not supported. thank guys!

zy

[hank]

AdBlock is my web browser.
Firefox is only an extension.

Well, at least that's how I feel.
I was about to revert to 20040831 -- I did not realize the 0901 build was going to break AdBlock.

Should I try the manual installation?
If not, I go back to using Lynx, text only, til sanity is restored.

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040901 Firefox/1.0 PR (NOT FINAL)

[kstahl]

Adblock is not yet updated for the 1.0PR release. If I understand things correctly it's just a small fix, the version compatibility string need to be changed to 0.10, and hopefully it should be ready before the final release of 1.0PR.
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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1. Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

[hank]

Thanks. I can't get it to install even by dropping the .xpi file onto Firefix manually. Oddly, the first two responses when I mentioned this at Mozillazine were from people who have had no problems continuing to use AdBlock after changing to the 1.0 PR nightly build -- while for me it required a new profile and rejected all my extensions. Curious.

I look forward to having AdBlock back. Which is to say, I look forward to having control of my computer back, right now it's owned by the advertising industry .....

[kstahl]

Well, supposedly this version works:
http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/index.php?showtopic=774

Just remember that it's not an official version so don't complain here if your profile gets borked.
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Adblock 0.5.3.042
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1. Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

[Zachariah]

related mozillazine posts:

• Peter(6) explaining that the xpi from adblock.mozdev.org doesn't work because of version number.
  
  
• Greg K Nicholson saying, "extensions shouldn't be claiming to be compatible with 1.0 as it's not yet out ... To work with 1.0PR, they should use a maxVersion of 0.10."
  
  
• wig_out_on_me saying, "any extension that has components in the extension's components directory is broken by this build and enabling or setting the maxVersion to .10 will not fix the extension"
  
  and this is also relevant:
  
• Extension Versioning, Update and Compatibility (or, How to Handle Firefox Version Upgrades)

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• Latest Adblock!

• If all else fails try a really fresh install of Firefox.

[hank]

Also (I'm not sure how to link to an individual post in the Mozillazine forums, but it's in the same Win32 thread you linked to immediately above this post):

Someone comments that there is an "enable" option on the screen where Firefox tells you your extensions aren't compatible with 1.0PR, and it enables most of them.

This seems an improvement.

[rue]

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 all installs from this point forward permitted as compatible.
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This issue will never occur again.

[kstahl]

Sounds good rue. Just to clarify, this means that we will be able to use Firefox's built in extension update feature, yes?
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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1. Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

[bobmugulie]

All you have to do to get it to work is to reenable adblock after the installation disables your extensions.

[rue]

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 u.m.o. wont host us with a greater-than-current maxVersion, the update.rdf file provides our backdoor to effect the same thing.
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bobmugulie:
A problem better solved dev-side.

[hank]

I got the modified version pointed to above (and I realize it won't really last through FF version 5). I'm happy.

Somehow I never saw the option to re-enable extensions; when I dropped FF 1.0PR (for OSX) on top of the previous night's 8/31 build (for OSX), and started up, I must have seen something rather different than others somehow; it did work out for a couple of other people using OSX I've read.

For me, I got the one time warning everything was outdated and thereafter FF has never shown me the old extensions again -- not even when I tried dumping the new Profile, putting back the one from 8/31 and restarting. No extensions - files are in the folder but nothing listed.

No problem, I'm using the modified AdBlock, all is fine.[/u]

[rue]

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("app.build_id", "2004090307");
pref("app.extensions.version", "0.9");

If anyone can discern a reasoning for "0.10" and "1.0PR" on some nightlies but not others, I'll test and link the update. Until then, the update will remain unlinked, pending true 1.0 release.

[kstahl]

Strange. Did you create a fresh proile, or install on top of an older? Maybe it's a trunk/branch issue.

I have no idea. I kept my old profile, and Firefox disabled Adblock for me. All I had to do was enable it again, and everything works fine.
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Adblock 0.5.3.042
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1. Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

[JunkieV]

Has anyone considered just unzipping Adblock and changing the version number thing? *goes to do that*

[Guest]

JunkieV: that is what I did

rue: Ben has said on numerous occasions that the version for the PR will be, without a doubt, as far as extentiosn are concerned, 0.10

I think it is safe to upload the fixed version for all.

[Greg K Nicholson]

rue, umo will actually host extensions that claim to be future-compatible - some listed there go up to 1.2. Also, Ben's explicitly given the OK to target 0.10 (1.0PR) now.

[Buran]

[Zul]

Just want to mention that today's nightly build gives this string:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040908 Firefox/0.10

Further confirming that it is indeed 0.10

Also Ben posted a new entry in his Blog urging users to test nightly builds before the official Preview Release hits durring the middle of next week.

http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/ben/

[Buran]

[kstahl]

Updated official version, compatible with 1.0PR nightlies:
http://adblock.mozdev.org/dev.html

Edited to avoid confusion.
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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1. Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

[Zachariah]

[kstahl]

Edited. The correct file is now on Adblock's homepage.
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[rue]

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 dev-page. Adblock should remain compatible with all browser releases from here, forward. Enjoy.

[Zachariah]

[Varsity]

Neither of those versions are 'valid install packages'.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 Firefox/0.10

[kstahl]

Works fine here. Try installing again.

If it doesn't work, do a local install by downloading the XPI to your computer and then dragging it onto an open browser window.

http://adblock.mozdev.org/dev.html
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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1. Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5