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AdblockPlus 2.6.6 for Firefox released
- https://adblockplus....irefox-released
2014-11-11 - "... Adblock Plus will use a slightly different approach to read files from disk... reason is a change that Mozilla made for Firefox and that broke Adblock Plus completely in the Firefox nightly builds."
 

[AplusWebMaster]

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Adblock Plus 1.8.8 for Chrome, Opera and Safari released
- https://adblockplus....safari-released
2014-12-02
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Adblock Plus - How to keep people from knowing you’ve read their Facebook message
- https://adblockplus....acebook-message
2014-12-02 - "You know how you’re able to see that someone has “seen” your message on Facebook? If you’ve ever wanted others -not- to be informed about when/if you’ve read their Facebook messages, Adblock Plus has a new solution for you. Just click HERE* (and then click Add) to enable it automatically; read on for an explanation. By displaying the “seen” message you know that the person you’ve sent the message to has read the message... To enable it automatically simply click HERE*..."
(More detail and link* at the adblockplus URL above.)
 

Edited by AplusWebMaster, 04 December 2014 - 06:34 AM.

[AplusWebMaster]

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Adblock Plus 1.3 for IE released
- https://adblockplus....for-ie-released
2014-12-15 - "... version 1.3 fixes a lot of issues where ABP for IE either incorrectly blocked a request, or falsely allowed the request through, when it shouldn’t have... hope you’ll notice the improvement... list of changes:
    General blocking improvements (issue 1265):
        Improved detection of mime types
        Added support for XMLHttpRequests
        Added support for requests from Flash
        Improved detection of a referrer of a request.
    Fix element hiding on some sites (issue 1148)
    Fix incorrect blocking of video content on some sites (issue 1231)
    Block video ads where they weren’t blocked before (issue 1500)
    Fix “Navigation canceled” messages if IFRAME is blocked (issue 1264)
    Fix version string in Add/Remove programs (issue 1222)
    Changes in the First Run Page (issue 1230, issue 1356) ..."
 

[AplusWebMaster]

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Adblock Plus 1.8.9 for Chrome, Opera and Safari released
- https://adblockplus....safari-released
Jan 6, 2015 - "Install links...
Changes:
    Worked around some circumvention attempts.
    Fixed: Extension pages didn’t respect direction of right-to-left languages (issue 1668).
    Fixed an issue when generating filters based on the style attribute (issue 1658).
    Fixed an issue where “Block element” from the context menu didn’t work or in an inferior way than from the popup (issue 1611).
    When blocking elements suggest filters based on all URLs associated with the element (issue 1601).
    Removed the ‘Hide placeholders’ option (issue 1671).
    Updated the extension description (issue 1643)..."
 

[AplusWebMaster]

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Adblock Plus 2.6.7 for Firefox released
- https://adblockplus....irefox-released
2015-01-14
Changes:
- Removed “Hide placeholders of blocked elements” option from the user interface (issue 1670).
- Fixed: First-run page broken in Firefox nightlies if E10S is enabled (issue 1663, issue 1706).
- Fixed first-run page layout for right-to-left languages (issue 1668).
- Fixed: “Adblock Warning Removal List” is being displayed as the selected list on Firefox Mobile (issue 1712).
- Fixed: “Disable on site” doesn’t always show up on Firefox Mobile (issue 1713)...
 

[AplusWebMaster]

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Adblock Plus 1.8.10 for Chrome, Opera and Safari released
- https://adblockplus....safari-released
2015-01-20
> Changes
Fixed: “Block element” didn’t highlight some elements correctly (issue 1751 and issue 1755).
Fixed: “Block element” didn’t work while the first run page was open (issue 1741).
> Chrome/Opera-only changes
Worked around an issue that broke printing of spreadsheets on Google Docs (issue 1770).
Adapted for a new API feature introduced in Chrome 41 and Opera 28, that allows to identify frames more efficiently and reliably (issue 1739).
> Safari-only changes
Fixed a potential memory leak in the messaging code (issue 1724).

Install/download links at the adblockplus URL above.
 

[AplusWebMaster]

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Adblock Plus 1.8.11 for Chrome, Opera and Safari released
- https://adblockplus....safari-released
2015-02-24
Changes:
    Improved the icon and logo (issue 1535 and issue 1989).
    Fixed: Filters with internationalized domains didn’t match (issue 1801).
    Fixed: On the options page, input was submitted even if the wrong button was pressed (issue 1448).
    Fixed some issues with the “Block element” dialog.
        Fixed: Overlays were sometimes covered by other elements (issue 1857).
        Fixed: Matching elements weren’t highlighted sometimes (issue 1864).
        Fixed: Mouse events handled by the page could prevent the dialog from showing up (issue 1665).
        Fixed: Dialog wasn’t completely visible when selecting elements inside small frames (issue 350).
        Fixed several issues related to framesets (issue 1867, issue 1870 and issue 1082).
        Fixed issues caused by selecting SVG elements (issue 1856).
        Fixed: Images weren’t recognized when using image maps (issue 1868).
        Fixed a memory leak when routing messages across frames (issue 1840).

Chrome/Opera-only changes:
    Fixed: Icon and badge didn’t update for pre-rendered tabs (issue 1976).
    Fixed issue with third-party pages loaded in anonymous frames (issue 1977).
    Fixed: CSS selectors containing commas partially broke element hiding (issue 1802).
    Fixed: “Block element” dialog and highlighted elements were staying visible after the extension is unloaded (issue 1843).

Safari-only changes:
    Fixed an issue that broke the user interface for some languages (issue 2008).

(Install links at the adblockplus URL above.)
 

[AplusWebMaster]

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Adblock Plus 1.4 for IE released
- https://adblockplus....for-ie-released
2015-02-26
We are updating Adblock Plus for IE with version 1.4.

... list of all improvements since version 1.3.

New in this release: the addition of the installer for Active Directory installs, which we really hope network administrators would appreciate.
There’s a x64-bit and x86-bit variant of the GPO installer.

Also, this version is the first version that will perform queries for notifications like all other ABP versions.

> https://downloads.ad...changelog.xhtml
 

Edited by AplusWebMaster, 26 February 2015 - 12:30 PM.

[AplusWebMaster]

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AdblockPlus 1.3 for Android
- https://adblockplus....ndroid-released
2015-03-03
If you already have Adblock Plus for Android, it should notify you about the update shortly and download it automatically.

We did a lot of under-the-hood changes again, rewrote the way libadblockplus is integrated (#16) and cleaned up the different methods for setting the proxy and deciding which method to use (#547).
Besides that we:
    improved compatibility with Android Lollipop (#1498, #1848)
    reduced the memory usage (#303)
    included twelve new translations
and, of course, fixed a lot of various minor and major issues...

(Install links at the adblockplus URL above.)
 

[AplusWebMaster]

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Adblock Plus 2.6.8 for Firefox released
- https://adblockplus....irefox-released
2015-03-10 - "This release features the improved icon and logo that are already being used in Chrome, Opera and Safari (issue 1534, issue 2053, issue 2072). It also fixes an issue with the search functionality in the Filter Preferences affecting Firefox 36 and above (issue 2041)..."
 

[AplusWebMaster]

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Adblock Plus 2.6.9 for Firefox released
- https://adblockplus....irefox-released
2015-03-31 - "This is another quality and stability release:
• Slightly optimized performance, domain-specific filters will no longer affect overall performance (issue 2177).
• Added extensions.adblockplus.suppress_first_run_page preference to allow administrators disable the first-run page if Adblock Plus is installed globally (issue 206). Note that additional changes are required to make this preference usable.
• Fixed: $elemhide filter option doesn’t consider website signatures correctly (issue 2151)..."

In Firefox: >Tools >Addons >Check for updates
 

[AplusWebMaster]

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Adblock Plus 1.9 for Chrome, Opera and Safari released
- https://adblockplus....safari-released
2015-06-16
Install Adblock Plus 1.9 for Chrome
Install Adblock Plus 1.9 for Opera
Install Adblock Plus 1.9 for Safari (Safari 6 or higher required)
>> Changes:
    Fixed: Placeholders weren’t hidden for elements that were blocked by an URL given in the srcset attribute (issue 2634).
    Exception rules with protocol don’t imply the $document flag anymore (issue 2503).
    Changed the label for the share buttons to reflect the functionality more accurately (issue 2202).
    Implemented an alternative format for subscription links (issue 2212).
    Fixed some issues with the “Block element” dialog:
        Fixed some issues with element highlighting (issue 2077, issue 2209).
        Fixed some issues with dragging the dialog (issue 2100, issue 2173, issue 2194).
        Fixed issues with how the context menu interacted with other parts of the user interface (issue 2279, issue 2298).
        The page no longer freezes when selecting an element that would result in a lot of other elements being blocked as well (issue 2215).
    Performance improvements:
        Mitigated the effect of slow request blocking filters (issue 2177).
        Determine whether a page or frame is whitelisted more efficiently by only matching exception rules (issue 2132).
        Moved code not crucial to blocking requests out of the critical path, decreasing load times (issue 2505).
> Chrome/Opera-only changes
    Changed the way Adblock Plus stores persistent data such as setting and filter lists, replacing localStorage and the deprecated FileSystem API with chrome.storage (issue 2021, issue 2040).
    Run content scripts in anonymous frames again, in order to block ads more reliably (issue 2216, issue 2217).
    Worked around a Chromium bug that caused corruption of the page layout when using the feedback dialog on Google Mail and other Google websites (issue 2602).
    Fixed element hiding filters using CSS selectors with commas inside quoted text (issue 2467).
    Don’t assume Chromium-specific user agent string, fixing issues when using --user-agent switch, or running on a different platform (issue 2537).
    Performance improvements:
        Flush caches after filter changes only when absolutely necessary and respect the browser’s quotas (issue 2034, issue 2297).
        Improved the performance of CSS selector injection, slightly decreasing page load time, in particular on pages with many frames and/or many active element hiding filters (issue 2528).
        Avoid calling into JavaScript when processing headers when loading other resources than documents and frames (issue 2538).
        Got rid of some try..catch statements which prevent functions from being (issue 2658, issue 2569).
        Avoid iteration over a hash-table which prevents functions from being optimized, slightly improving performance of element hiding filter matching (issue 2582).
> Chrome-only changes
    Added a pre-configurable preference to suppress the first run page (issue 1488).
> Opera-only changes
    Fixed: Spanish translation wasn’t being used (issue 2665).
> Safari-only changes
    Restored compatibility with Safari 6 (issue 2172).
 

[AplusWebMaster]

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Adblock Plus 1.9.1 for Chrome, Opera and Safari released
- https://adblockplus....safari-released
2015-07-14
Install Adblock Plus 1.9.1 for Chrome
Install Adblock Plus 1.9.1 for Opera
Install Adblock Plus 1.9.1 for Safari (Safari 6 or higher required)
Changes:
- Added global opt-out for notifications (issue 2195).
- Immediately show notifications after they were downloaded (issue 2419).
- Reduced delay of initial download of notifications (issue 2659).
- Fixed: Notification data was reset when pages load during extension intitialization (issue 2757).
 

[AplusWebMaster]

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Adblock Plus 2.6.10 for Firefox released
- https://adblockplus....irefox-released
2015-07-28 - "This is a quality and stability release, with the focus being compatibility with upcoming Firefox versions. Most of the changes are under the hood, only the visible changes are listed:
• suppress_first_run_page preference introduced by previous release can now be preconfigured by machine administrators via setting extensions.adblockplus.preconfigured.suppress_first_run_page Firefox preference (issue 2439).
• Issue reporter
        Made sure there is always enough space to display report data (issue 344).
        No longer intercepting right-clicks on the resulting report link, only left- and middle-clicks result in the report being opened (issue 701).
• Subscription links
        Implemented an alternative format that is easier to use in forums or emails: https ://subscribe.adblockplus .org/?location=foo instead of abp:subscribe?location=foo (issue 2211).
• Fixed subscription links in multi-process Firefox (issue 1730)
• Notifications
        Added global opt-out for notifications (issue 2192 and issue 2193).
        Notifications are shown immediately after download rather than waiting for a browser restart (issue 2419).
• Removed inconsistent behavior (breaks backwards compatibility): exception rules starting with http:// or https:// no longer imply $document option (issue 2503).
• Reduced the initial delay for filter lists and notification updates after browser startup (issue 284 and issue 2659).
• First-run page: Fixed social buttons being broken starting with Firefox 38 (issue 2710)...
 

[AplusWebMaster]

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Adblock -Browser- for Android -or- iOS
- https://adblockplus....nd-ios-released
2015-09-08 - "... we’ve been working hard on Adblock Browser for Android and iOS over the past few months... today is the day where we release it on -both- platforms..."

> Install Adblock Browser for Android or iOS
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- http://www.theinquir...f-ios-9-release
Sep 08 2015 - "... There was some speculation that Adblock Plus was being blocked by Google, according to some sources yesterday, but it later emerged that it was a fault in the source code of Chromium itself*. Blocking advertising remains controversial. So-called 'malvertising' is on the increase, and the 'right' to block is important to many people, but many companies depend on advertising revenue to monetise their sites and will look down on this move."
* http://www.theinquir...utube-on-chrome

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