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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-19571
2013-10-20 23:55:21
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Name : mozilla-adblockplus
Product : Fedora 18
Version : 2.4
Release : 1.fc18
URL :
https://adblockplus.org/
Summary : Adblocking extension for Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey
Description :
Adblock Plus is a content-filtering extension for the Mozilla Firefox- and
Mozilla Application Suite-based web browsers. Adblock Plus allows users to
prevent page elements, such as advertisements, from being downloaded and
displayed.
It features improvements to the user interface, filter subscriptions, and
element hiding over the original Adblock extension.
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Update Information:
- Improves start page once again
- 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).
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ChangeLog:
* Sat Oct 19 2013 Russell Golden <niveusluna(a)niveusluna.org> - 2.4-1
- Improves start page once again
- 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).
* Thu Aug 1 2013 Russell Golden <niveusluna(a)niveusluna.org> - 2.3.2-3
- Give up on just using the XPI itself. It doesn't seem to load.
* Thu Aug 1 2013 Russell Golden <niveusluna(a)niveusluna.org> - 2.3.2-2
- Fix conflict with Firefox RPM. Forgot to remove the directory ownership
in files section.
- Correct capitalization in description.
* Wed Jul 31 2013 Russell Golden <niveusluna(a)niveusluna.org> - 2.3.2-1
- Update to upstream 2.3.2. This includes:
-- Removal of the site-autocorrect feature.
-- Addition of an emergency notification feature for big problems with ABP.
- To make future packaging easier, install the XPI itself.
-- It's not like the upstream version unpacks itself, either.
* Thu May 9 2013 Russell Golden <niveusluna(a)niveusluna.org - 2.2.4-1
- 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).
* Thu Feb 14 2013 Russell Golden <niveusluna(a)niveusluna.org> - 2.2.3-1
- (Does not apply to Linux) 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).
* Sat Feb 2 2013 Russell Golden <niveusluna(a)niveusluna.org> - 2.2.2-1
- Worked around regression in Firefox 18 causing entries on the
blockable items list to disappear and preventing context menu
from working reliably.
- Issue reporter now encourages users to enter an email address when
submitting issue reports.
- Fixed various compatibility problems with future Firefox releases.
* Wed Dec 19 2012 Russell Golden <niveusluna(a)niveusluna.org> - 2.2.1-3
- Fix typo in the license section
* Wed Dec 19 2012 Russell Golden <niveusluna(a)niveusluna.org> - 2.2.1-2
- Fix incorrect license information
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1017562 - mozilla-adblockplus-2.4 is available
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1017562
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update mozilla-adblockplus' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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