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Flashblock Changelog

What's new in Flashblock 1.5.17

May 24, 2013
  • [fix] Bug 24896 Allow whitelist for some sites. Patch by Tommy Wu.
  • [fix] Re-enable whitelist integration with Adblock Plus and other content blockers.
  • [fix] Don't enable controls for HTML5 video/audio since some sites (Youtube) have their own video controls.
  • [new] Add option to enable/disable HTML5 video blocking.
  • [fix] Bug 25350 Flashblock on Firefox 21 is broken by mozilla Bug 834697 (Enable XBL Scopes).
  • Updated translations from Babelzilla.

New in Flashblock 1.5.16 (May 24, 2013)

  • [new] Preliminary support for blocking HTML5 Video.
  • [fix] Disabled whitelist integration with Adblock Plus and other content blockers since this prevents our whitelist from working on Firefox 13.

New in Flashblock 1.5.15a1 (Jul 15, 2011)

  • Updated locales from Babelzilla including: fi-FI, uk-UA, it-IT, de, fr, he-IL, da, ko-KR, ru-RU, zh-TW, ja-JP.
  • New locales: hy-AM, th, eo, hsb-DE.
  • fix] no-NB locale should be nb-NO ( Norwegian bokmal).
  • new] Add an option to Sync the whitelist using Weave/Firefox Sync.
  • New OS X placeholder images from: Bug 614485.
  • fix] Bug 23456 Flashblock blocks all flash-based gadgets.
  • fix] NS_ERROR_DOM_NOT_FOUND_ERR in flashblockShowFlash().

New in Flashblock 1.5.14.2 (Jul 15, 2011)

  • [fix]:
  • Fix Firefox 2.0 regression caused by patch in Bug 18971.
  • Fix sIFR breakage caused by patch in Bug 18971.
  • Bug 22683 "document.createEvent is undefined" error prevents Flashblock
  • from working.
  • Bug 573815 Flashblock does not display play button on Dailymotion videos.
  • Add true to the install.rdf
  • to force Firefox4/SeaMonkey 2.1 to unpack the XPI.

New in Flashblock 1.5.14 (Jul 15, 2011)

  • [fix]:
  • Bug 18971: Please integrate nicely with content blockers (Adblock Plus).
  • Bug 22683: "document.createEvent is undefined" error prevents Flashblock from working.
  • typo in install.js (Flashblock 1.3.17a only).
  • Camino
  • Flashblock does not display play button on Dailymotion videos.

New in Flashblock 1.5.13 (Jul 15, 2011)

  • [new] Options checkbox to control silverlight blocking (off by default).
  • [new] Dynamically change the toolbar button label depending on block state.
  • [new] es-AR and sr-RS locales from Babelzilla. (translations now provided by Babelzilla)
  • [fix] Bug 22168 "Node was not found" code: "8".
  • [fix] For the sIFR-alternate binding move the position: static style from the css into the XBL. This used to crash Firefox 1.0.7.
  • [new] Desupport Gecko 1.7 browsers (Flashblock 1.3 branch).

New in Flashblock 1.5.11.2 (Jul 1, 2009)

  • fixed more regressions in whitelist regexp processing

New in Flashblock 1.5.11.1 (Jul 1, 2009)

  • fixed mistake in whitelist handling that prevents "*." in "*.foo.com" from working

New in Flashblock 1.5.11 (Jul 1, 2009)

  • [new] Added vi-VN (Vietnamese) locale.
  • [new] Added no-NB (Norwegian BokmÃ¥l) locale.
  • [fix] Bug 16856 Whitelist doesn't allow the addition of subsites. e.g. foo.bar.com/somepage.html.
  • [fix] Fixed some height/width and display alignment problems with the placeholder.

New in Flashblock 1.5.10 (Apr 14, 2009)

  • Bug 20747 Capability to suppress context menu items. Regression from workaround for mozilla bugs which prevented Flashblock from showing its context menu items

New in Flashblock 1.5.9 (Mar 28, 2009)

  • [fix] Bug 19372 Allow keyboard users to activate flashblock placeholders.
  • [fix] Bug 20572 Options dialog: when pressing "enter" in whitelist 'add' textbox, dialog closes.
  • [fix] Mozilla Bug 482433 Sibelius Scorch scores don't display or play if Flashblock is active.
  • [fix] Bug 20678 (Flashblock broken on sevenload.com) Force visibility to visible. Also check for flash.style.display:block and use block instead of inline-block in our placeholder.
  • [fix] Bug 20678 (Flashblock broken on sevenload.com) Force visibility to visible. Also check for flash.style.display:block and use block instead of inline-block in our placeholder.
  • [enh] Bug 20722 Add API to allow other extensions to add sites to our whitelist.
  • [fix] Workaround for Mozilla Bug 482941 and Mozilla Bug 422851 which prevented Flashblock from showing its context menu items.

New in Flashblock 1.5.8 (Feb 7, 2009)

  • [fix] Workaround for Mozilla Bug 467659 (Permission denied ... to get property XPCComponents.utils).
  • Rearrange the options dialog and move the whitelist into a separate tab (Part of Bug 20277).
  • [fix] Bug 20394 WMP videos will not display (only audio) with Flashblock enabled.
  • [fix] Mozilla Bug 475842 Internet Archive Flash videos won't play with Flashblock installed.

New in Flashblock 1.5.7.1 (Dec 15, 2008)

  • [fix] Workaround for Bug 467659 (Permission denied ... to get property XPCComponents.utils).

New in Flashblock 1.5.7 (Nov 12, 2008)

  • [fix] Bug 19435 Flash objects are not blocked on a XML/XSLT page.
  • [fix] Mozilla Bug 463839 Flashblock broken on trunk (again).
  • [fix] Mozilla Bug 463845 [Security Sensitive]
  • [new] Added pt-PT (Portuguese) locale.