- https://adblockplus.org/en/changelog-2.2.1
. Fixed issue affecting loading of filters in old Firefox version (including Firefox 10).
. Fixed wrong apostrophe encoding in translations (especially Italian).
Changelog for Adblock Plus 2.2.3
- https://adblockplus.org/releases/adblock-pl…irefox-released
Feb 13, 2013 - The following lists the changes compared to Adblock Plus 2.2.3. If you experience issues with this release please check the list of known issues.
• Worked around AVG Security Toolbar 14.0.3.* breaking Adblock Plus among other things.
• Made sure that first-run page always opens is the current browser window (bug 819561)…
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- http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/01/31/23…porn-cisco-says
Feb 01, 2013 - "The popular belief is that security risks increase as the user engages in riskier and shadier behavior online, but that apparently isn't the case, Cisco found in its 2013 Annual Security report*. It can be more dangerous to click on an online advertisement than an adult content site these days, according to Cisco. For example, users clicking on online ads were 182 times more likely to wind up getting infected with malware than if they'd surfed over to an adult content site, Cisco said. The highest concentration of online security targets do not target pornography, pharmaceutical, or gambling sites as much as they affect legitimate sites such as search engines, online retailers, and social media. Users are 21 times more likely to get hit with malware from online shopping sites and 27 more times likely with a search engine than if they'd gone to a counterfeit software site…"
* http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/vpndevc/an…ity_report.html
Adblock Plus v2.2.4 released
- https://adblockplus.org/en/changelog-2.2.4
2013-05-08
• Fixed: Server names with a trailing dot were mistakenly treated as typos.
• Fixed a Firefox 22 compatibility issue (no colors/imaages in filters list and list of blockable items).
AdblockPlus 2.3.1 released
- https://adblockplus.org/releases/adblock-pl…-opera-released
2013-07-24
Changes:
- Improved filter list downloads.
- Implemented filter forward-compatibility proposal.
- Implemented an emergency notification mechanism that can be used to communicate important issues.
Adblock Plus updates…
- https://adblockplus.org/releases/adblock-pl…-opera-released
2013-10-09 - "Adblock Plus 2.4 for Firefox, Adblock Plus 1.6 for Chrome and Opera released…
• Firefox-only changes
Fixed: Adblock Plus icon wasn’t showing up on browser startup for some users.
Fixed: Redirect blocking wasn’t working in current Firefox versions.
Fixed: Issue reporter fails to process some console errors.
Fixed: Adblock Plus fails to start up when updating in current Firefox nightly builds (workaround for bug 924340).
• Chrome/Opera-only changes
The number of ads blocked on a page and in total now shows up when in the icon is clicked…"
Customizable Facebook page
- https://adblockplus.org/blog/customizable-facebook-page
2013-10-21 - "You can now customize Facebook with Adblock Plus. Under default settings, ABP blocks all Facebook ads – sponsored stories, page post ads, standard ads, promoted posts or otherwise. But there are other unneeded, potentially unwanted elements that insert themselves automatically into your news feed and sidebar. Now you can block these too…"
- http://facebook.adblockplus.me/en/
- http://www.infoworld.com/t/web-browsers/ad…noyances-229247
Oct 22, 2013 - "… Many end users understand all too well that the vast majority of sites need ad revenue to survive, but are fed up with obnoxious, experience-killing ads that leak privacy data…"
AdblockPlus 2.6.3 released
- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/versions/?page=1#version-2.6.3
June 3, 2014
* Worked around a Firefox bug preventing filters from being saved in Firefox 22 and older on Windows.
* Default context menu is no longer overridden on the toolbar icon if a left click would result in the same action already.
* Fixed: Adblock Plus toolbar icon appears delayed.
* Fixed: Warning shows up in console concerning use of setUserData (only resolved for Firefox 32 and higher).
* Fixed: Bogus tooltip on the "Slow" column in Filter Preferences.
AdBlock Plus 2.6.4
- https://adblockplus.org/releases/adblock-plus-264-for-firefox-released
2014-07-22
Changes:
- Made sure that data is always written to disk immediately whenever filter hit counts are reset (issue 430).
- Fixed: Moving filters with Ctrl-Up/Down doesn’t work in Firefox 30 and above (issue 716).
- Fixed: Find functionality in the preferences doesn’t indicate that the search pattern wasn’t found (issue 455).
- Fixed: User isn’t informed about anti-adblock warnings on websites producing them (issue 764).
- Fixed: Blockable items aren’t refreshed on tab change in SeaMonkey (issue 290).
- Fixed: “Disable on this page only” doesn’t work correctly if the address ends with # (issue 580)…
Adblock Plus 2.6.5 for Firefox
- https://adblockplus.org/releases/adblock-plus-265-for-firefox-released
Changes:
- Fixed: Element hiding exceptions are broken by changes in Firefox 34 and Firefox 35 (issue 1241, issue 1381).
- Fixed: Blocking via context menu won’t always suggest blocking the most recent request (issue 362).
- Fixed: Issue reporter will complain about too many filter lists even when these filter lists are “special” like the anti-adblock list (issue 690).
- Fixed: Disabling filters via space bar no longer works in preferences (issue 1129).
- Fixed: Sharing Adblock Plus from the first-run page won’t work if the Anti-Social list is enabled (issue 1133).
- Fixed: Anti-Adblock warning will sometimes appear on websites without any anti-adblock behavior (issue 1161).
- Made $sitekey option behavior more consistent, it can be used similarly to $domain now rather than whitelisting complete websites only (issue 432).
