January 4th, 2012· Turn on new webRequest code for all Chrome 17 users
January 4th, 2012· Disable popup blocking as adding it disables AdBlock.
January 4th, 2012· Popup blocking, speed improvement, remove dead Ukranian list
January 4th, 2012· Remove instrumentation
January 4th, 2012· Instrumentation to hunt down issue chromium:106913
January 4th, 2012· Include stack trace in logs
January 4th, 2012· Measure opt-in rate to new-style blocking, so we know when it's been tested enough to enable for everyone
January 4th, 2012· Quieter logging
January 4th, 2012· All in-video and in-Flash ads are blocked in Chrome if you turn it on under AdBlock Options
January 4th, 2012· Don't break the toolbar button
January 4th, 2012· Fix critical bug breaking Safari after Private Browsing, remove dead Norwegian list, new jQuery version
January 4th, 2012· Small changes (famlam), fix bug in waiting for idle
May 5th, 2011· Fix bug related to clicking malformed filter list subscription links.
· Also fix a leaking variable
April 26th, 2011· Fix blacklister bug for Chinese users (famlam)
April 21st, 2011· AdBlock Options in Safari now accessible through Extensions|Preferences. Subscribe legacy users to language-specific filter lists if they've never set up their own lists.
April 21st, 2011· Don't run bandaids on most pages
April 21st, 2011· Fix incognito app behavior.
· Fix manual filters paste bug.
· Blacklist wizard bugfix
April 1st, 2011· Test a new way to remove ads, which keeps some websites from breaking
April 1st, 2011· Change app shipping
March 28th, 2011· Remove dead log message
March 28th, 2011· Fix blacklisting wizard manual editing bug
March 26th, 2011· Text change
March 26th, 2011· Fix app description in manifest
March 24th, 2011· Fix broken signup for subscriptions
March 24th, 2011· Internal code shufflins
March 23rd, 2011· Fix opt-in to Google search ads when using Google Instant
March 22nd, 2011· Speed and code improvements, and don't let the blacklist and whitelist wizards be open at the same time
March 17th, 2011· General cleanup and refactoring of helper functions
March 17th, 2011· Make toolbar button tab-specific, so it looks right when multiple windows are open
March 17th, 2011· Fix "Block an ad on this page" from toolbar immediately after right clicking page
March 14th, 2011· Filter updates
March 10th, 2011· Don't show context menu in Chrome Extension Gallery
March 5th, 2011· Some resourceblock.html improvements and minor bugfixes
March 2nd, 2011· Highlight the element you're about to click in the blacklist wizard (wormboy.d)
March 2nd, 2011· jQuery and jQuery UI refresh
February 22nd, 2011· New advanced url-blocking wizard linked off of existing hiding wizard
February 22nd, 2011· Fix a bug: whitelisting a page wasn't updating the toolbar icon immediately
February 22nd, 2011· Show hide button message on install page too
February 22nd, 2011· Fix positioning of blacklist wizard. Fix hide button message bug on mac.
February 11th, 2011· Add a toolbar button again, retiring the Browser Button For AdBlock extension.
February 10th, 2011· Bugfix: new installation page was showing checked 'Show a toolbar button' checkbox
February 10th, 2011· Bugfix on ad report page and more thorough validation of custom blacklist entries
February 9th, 2011· Support opt-in to Google ads when not subscribed to EasyList
February 9th, 2011· Localization updates, correct a URL scheme bug, and remove dead code
January 21st, 2011· Support $document filter syntax, allowing individual pages to be whitelisted. Also added $elemhide support.
January 15th, 2011· Ignore filters if they contain unknown options (famlam)
January 12th, 2011· Support requiresLocation in abp:subscribe links (famlam)
January 12th, 2011· Handle new EasyPrivacy filter that was breaking many websites
January 7th, 2011· See which filter lists should be added to or removed from the options page
December 28th, 2010· In Chrome, reduce overall browser RAM usage by up to 30%, and decrease AdBlock run time by about 50%
December 25th, 2010· Validate filters on download instead of when inputting into filter engine, because we input into filter engine on every page load. Saves 50ms per frame.
December 23rd, 2010· New and improved Youtube ad blocking (famlam)
December 21st, 2010· L10n typo
December 21st, 2010· L10n typo
December 16th, 2010· Change donation request to mention that this is now my full time job.
December 9th, 2010· Bugfix for new frame blocking code
December 9th, 2010· Keep youtube user-channel videos from autoplaying incorrectly (drewish). Support frame,audio,video, and input type=image blocking (famlam).
December 8th, 2010· Fixed typo
December 8th, 2010· Updated text description for web store launch
December 8th, 2010· Fix broken Spanish translation.
· jQuery-1.4.4 for speed improvements.
· Small bugfixes and improvements.
December 8th, 2010· Subscribe non-English-speakers to an appropriate Easylist sublist
November 22nd, 2010· Roll back chrome.tabs.insertCSS() work while we figure out how to make it run earlier and how to be specific for different iframes on a page.
November 22nd, 2010· Fix tagging typo
November 22nd, 2010· Use Chrome API for CSS hiding which should improve RAM and speed in Chrome.
November 22nd, 2010· Work around Chrome bugs related to chrome.tabs and SVG images. 'background' type now deprecated in filter lists.
· Special cases for hotmail.com and hk-pub.com.
· Add note to ad reporter about video ads not being blockable yet except in Youtube.
· Speed up ad blocking in Chrome by removing a redundant regex parse.
November 22nd, 2010· Use less memory in Chrome
November 5th, 2010· Vastly simplified mechanism for dealing with ads in Chrome that load before the filter engine is in place (famlam).
· We're now at 18 languages
November 5th, 2010· Memory and speed improvements (famlam)
October 8th, 2010· Don't let users try to block the BODY tag
September 27th, 2010· Add indonesian translation, and improve memory usage in Safari.
September 27th, 2010· Block background images even when they are specified in stylesheets (famlam). Touchups to the UI for manual blacklist editing. Fix typos in last release.
September 27th, 2010· Warning popup to Chrome users that next week AdBlock will be disabled as a necessary part of an upgrade, with instructions for re-enabling it.
September 24th, 2010· Localized right-click menu text (famlam)
September 24th, 2010· Memory savings in Chrome and probably some in Safari (famlam)
September 24th, 2010· Revert to old Easylist and Easylist German URLs, per Wladimir Palant's (author of Adblock Plus) request
September 7th, 2010· Safari users also lose the context menus if they choose to via the Options page
September 7th, 2010· Quick patch to allow optional right click menus and to force Chrome 6 or higher, to get rid of permission error messages for Chrome 5 users.
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