What's new in Shut Up for Firefox 8.0.2.5
Feb 24, 2024
- Blocked comments inside some WordPress sidebar widgets. Thanks to Lawrence Velázquez for the contribution.
New in Shut Up for Firefox 8.0.2.4 (Feb 11, 2024)
- Blocked comments on various websites, including kottke.org. Thanks to Lawrence Velázquez for the contribution.
New in Shut Up for Firefox 8.0.2.3 (Jan 24, 2024)
- Blocked comments on websites that use Ghost's comment platform, including Platformer. Thanks to Lawrence Velázquez for the contribution.
New in Shut Up for Firefox 8.0.2.2 (Jan 11, 2024)
- Blocked comments on websites that use Insticator's comment platform, including National Review. Thanks to Joshua Born for the contribution.
New in Shut Up for Firefox 8.0.2.1 (Sep 27, 2023)
- Fixed comment/review blocking on NYTimes Cooking, Wall Street Journal, and Goodreads. Thanks to Will R Cohen for the contributions.
- Fixed comment blocking on itch.io. Thanks to Lawrence Velázquez for the contribution.
New in Shut Up for Firefox 8.0.2 (Nov 1, 2022)
- This update, still based on version 7.1.2, works around a recently-introduced incompatibility with Firefox 106. It restores the ability to show and hide comments on demand.
New in Shut Up for Firefox 8.0.1 (Sep 22, 2022)
- This release temporarily rolls back the changes from the 8.0 update while I investigate the cause of some unexpected bugs.
New in Shut Up for Firefox 8.0 (Sep 20, 2022)
- This release ensures compatibility with future browser releases and further strengthens security.
- Due to new browser requirements, Shut Up no longer includes a stylesheet update component. Your browser is now responsible for these updates, and will automatically install them through extension updates.
- Upgraded to Manifest v3 for future browser compatibility. (Firefox support TBD)
- Switched to new native WebExtensions APIs for adding blocking rules to pages.
- Updated the Options page to support narrow window widths.
- Fixed an issue in the Options page that prevented links from opening in a full tab.
- Removed the ability to force stylesheet updates in browsers based on Chrome.
New in Shut Up for Firefox 7.1.2.3 (Sep 11, 2022)
- Blocked comments on chess.com
New in Shut Up for Firefox 7.1.2.2 (Sep 6, 2022)
- Fixed review blocking on MyAnimeList.
New in Shut Up for Firefox 7.1.2.1 (Sep 5, 2022)
- Blocked comments on VnExpress, and fixed an issue which prevented viewing video descriptions on YouTube's mobile layout.
New in Shut Up for Firefox 7.1.1.6 (May 25, 2022)
- Blocked comments on NY Times Cooking. Thanks to Will Cohen for the contribution.
New in Shut Up for Firefox 7.1.1.5 (Apr 20, 2022)
- Improved comment blocking on formel1.de and golem.de. Thanks to Markus Thömmes for the contribution.
New in Shut Up for Firefox 7.1.1.4 (Apr 11, 2022)
- Improved comment blocking on the New York Times.
New in Shut Up for Firefox 7.1.1.3 (Feb 26, 2022)
- Improved comment blocking on theage.com.au and Reddit's mobile site
New in Shut Up for Firefox 7.1.1.2 (Feb 15, 2022)
- Blocked discussion and reviews on leagueofcomicgeeks.com.
New in Shut Up for Firefox 7.1.1.1 (Jan 9, 2022)
- Fixed comment blocking on Facebook's mobile site.
New in Shut Up for Firefox 7.1.1 (Jan 3, 2022)
- Small fix to make the copyright year easier to update.
New in Shut Up for Firefox 7.1.0.1 (Dec 12, 2021)
- Blocked the preview comment on YouTube's desktop layout.
New in Shut Up for Firefox 7.1 (Nov 16, 2021)
- Improved injection logic to better cooperate with other extensions and websites.
New in Shut Up for Firefox 7.0.2.21 (Nov 14, 2021)
- Blocked comment containers on Stack Exchange sites (Stack Overflow et al.).
New in Shut Up for Firefox 7.0.2.19 (Nov 9, 2021)
- Improved comment blocking on Patreon.
New in Shut Up for Firefox 7.0.2.18 (Nov 2, 2021)
- Blocked comments on LinkedIn, and fixed a false positive on a cookie consent code library.
New in Shut Up for Firefox 7.0.2.17 (Sep 24, 2021)
- Improved comment blocking on the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and The Times (UK).
New in Shut Up for Firefox 7.0.2.16 (Sep 11, 2021)
- Blocked comments on 1plus1.video.
New in Shut Up for Firefox 7.0.2.15 (Aug 22, 2021)
- Fixed comment blocking on the mobile versions of Reddit, Instagram, and Facebook.
New in Shut Up for Firefox 7.0.2.14 (Jul 12, 2021)
- Fixed comment blocking on a shady website.
New in Shut Up for Firefox 7.0.2.13 (Jul 9, 2021)
- Fixed comment blocking on tagesschau.de after their redesign.
New in Shut Up for Firefox 7.0.2.12 (May 23, 2021)
- Unblocked comments on the WordPress admin panel.
New in Shut Up for Firefox 7.0.2.10 (May 22, 2021)
- Blocked comments on YouTube's mobile layout.
New in Shut Up for Firefox 7.0.2.9 (May 12, 2021)
- This is a test release created by an automatic deployment. It contains no new features or bug fixes.
New in Shut Up for Firefox 7.0.2.7 (May 11, 2021)
- Fixed comment blocking on Facebook.
New in Shut Up for Firefox 7.0.2.6 (May 11, 2021)
- Improved comment blocking on MacRumors.
New in Shut Up for Firefox 7.0.2.5 (Apr 26, 2021)
- Blocked "trending" forum posts on the MacRumors homepage.
- Blocked the comment counters on beta Crunchyroll.
- Blocked chat sidebar on Hopin.
New in Shut Up for Firefox 7.0.2.4 (Apr 19, 2021)
- Improved comment blocking for beta Crunchyroll and AniList.
New in Shut Up for Firefox 7.0.2.3 (Mar 30, 2021)
- Improved comment blocking on certain websites.
New in Shut Up for Firefox 7.0.2.2 (Mar 22, 2021)
- Added multilingual comment blocking on Facebook. Supported languages are Chinese, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.
New in Shut Up for Firefox 7.0.2.1 (Feb 25, 2021)
- Added a couple more global blocking rules.
New in Shut Up for Firefox 7.0.2 (Feb 23, 2021)
- Fixed comment blocking on Le Figaro.
New in Shut Up for Firefox 7.0.1.1 (Jan 27, 2021)
- Improved comment blocking on several Russian sites, including vk.com, kinopoisk.ru, opennet.ru, and point.md.
New in Shut Up for Firefox 7.0.1 (Jan 15, 2021)
- Blocked comments on sites which use the Coral comments system
- Improved comment blocking on Pixiv
- Updated copyright date
New in Shut Up for Firefox 7.0.0.4 (Dec 30, 2020)
- Improved comment blocking on Facebook and some French streaming sites.
New in Shut Up for Firefox 7.0.0.3 (Dec 2, 2020)
- Blocked comments on trojmiasto.pl.
New in Shut Up for Firefox 7.0.0.2 (Nov 19, 2020)
- Blocked comments on Bandcamp, Boxing Scene, Metro News, Washington Post, Coding Horror, AppleInsider, Cracked, imgur, Medium, Times of India, and sites that embed spot.im (OpenWeb).
New in Shut Up for Firefox 7.0.0.1 (Nov 11, 2020)
- Unblocked forum posts on Fimfiction.
New in Shut Up for Firefox 7.0 (Oct 12, 2020)
- Thank you for all of your feedback on the previous release.
- I've reverted the changes from Shut Up 6. It improved comment blocking by using more general CSS selectors. However, it also blocked a lot of things that aren't comments. This broke many sites in lots of unexpected ways.
New in Shut Up for Firefox 6.0.0.2 (Oct 11, 2020)
- Fixed hidden file listings on Nextcloud installations. This update changes how comments are blocked across many sites.
New in Shut Up for Firefox 6.0.0.1 (Oct 11, 2020)
- Fixed "comment" "tone" pages on The Guardian.
- Fixed hidden reply buttons on Mastodon installations.
New in Shut Up for Firefox 5.0.2 (Oct 10, 2020)
- Improved compatibility with apps.oregon.gov.
New in Shut Up for Firefox 5.0.1.11 (Oct 2, 2020)
- Improved comment blocking on sites that use Disqus.
New in Shut Up for Firefox 5.0.1.10 (Sep 27, 2020)
- Improved comment blocking on sites run by G/O Media (Gizmodo, Jalopnik, Kotaku, etc.)
New in Shut Up for Firefox 5.0.1.9 (Sep 21, 2020)
- Improved comment blocking on several websites, including gazeta.pl.
New in Shut Up for Firefox 5.0.1.8 (Sep 14, 2020)
- Fixed a false positive case for articles on City Observatory.
New in Shut Up for Firefox 5.0.1.7 (Jul 24, 2020)
- Adjusted comment blocking to reduce false positives when viewing code displayed on webpages.
New in Shut Up for Firefox 5.0.1.6 (Jul 12, 2020)
- Improved comment blocking on teltarif.de.
New in Shut Up for Firefox 5.0.1.5 (Jun 23, 2020)
- Improved comment blocking on BBC News.
New in Shut Up for Firefox 5.0.1.3 (Jun 9, 2020)
- Updates comment blocking on Facebook.
New in Shut Up for Firefox 5.0.1.2 (Jun 2, 2020)
- Fix comment blocking in some sidebar widgets.
New in Shut Up for Firefox 5.0.1.1 (Jun 2, 2020)
- Improve comment blocking on various websites, including gsmarena.com.
New in Shut Up for Firefox 5.01 (Apr 15, 2020)
- Improved comment blocking on Facebook, DAUM News, Pixiv and Pixiv Fanbox, Newgrounds, Funimation, and MyAnimeList.
- Blocked reply tweets on Tweetdeck.
- Returned to the use of a standalone options page.
- Improved compatibility with iCloud's web interface.
New in Shut Up for Firefox 5.0 (Dec 23, 2019)
- Shut Up is now available on Microsoft Edge 76 and newer, and Opera 65 and newer.
- Fixed comment blocking on Firefox 72 and newer.
- Resolved various race conditions using improved initialization logic. This fixed an issue where the context menu item wouldn't install correctly.
- Strengthened whitelist encryption using the Web Crypto API.
- Strengthened Content Security Policy to prepare for upcoming Manifest v3 changes.
- This release also improves comment blocking in the following ways:
- Added comment blocking on Thrillist.
- Added blocking for Comments.app (by Telegram).
- Unblocked GitHub pull request comments.
- Fixed comment blocking on Patreon.
- Fixed comment blocking on IGN.
- Fixed comment blocking on Product Hunt.
New in Shut Up for Firefox 4.2.2.4 (Sep 8, 2019)
- Improved compatibility with some MediaWiki pages.
New in Shut Up for Firefox 4.2.2.2 (Aug 26, 2019)
- Improved comment blocking on Finnish news websites run by Sanoma Media.
New in Shut Up for Firefox 4.2.2.1 (Aug 21, 2019)
- Improved comment blocking following DeviantArt's redesign.
New in Shut Up for Firefox 4.2.2 (Aug 20, 2019)
- Improved comment blocking on giantbomb.com.
- Updated the included MD5 library to the current release version.
New in Shut Up for Firefox 4.2.1.5 (Jun 27, 2019)
- Blocks comments on thehindu.com.
New in Shut Up for Firefox 4.2.1.4 (Jun 27, 2019)
- Blocks HyperComments widgets, and promoted comments on Ars Technica.
New in Shut Up for Firefox 4.2.1.3 (Jun 27, 2019)
- Improved comment blocking on many German news websites, including heise.de, mactechnews.de, maclife.de, apfelpage.de, computerbase.de, giga.de, mdr.de, spiegel.de, faz.net, tagesspiegel.de, haz.de, welt.de, focus.de, handelsblatt.de, tagesschau.de, mopo.de, t-online.de, curved.de, netzwelt.de, krautreporter.de, perspective-daily.de, tz.de, and piqd.de. Special thanks to Wolfgang Reszel for this contribution.
- Improved comment blocking on Instagram.
New in Shut Up for Firefox 4.2.1.2 (Jun 27, 2019)
- Improved comment blocking on Instagram.
New in Shut Up for Firefox 4.2.1.1 (Jun 27, 2019)
- Block comment count/show comments button on Crosscut.