Adblock Plus 2.0.3

Adblock Plus is an extension for Firefox, Thunderbird, Google Chrome, Songbird and SeaMonkey with the primary goal of removing advertisements.

For that, Adblock Plus will look at all requests made by web pages and block the request if the address the request should go to matches a filter in Adblock Plus.

Out of the box, Adblock Plus comes without any filters whatsoever but will offer to add a filter subscription on first start — that is a list of filters maintained by other Adblock Plus users and will be updated automatically regularly.

A filter subscription can be added later as well (see Choosing a filter subscription), but you can also create your own filters regardless of whether you use a filter subscription.

Blocking requests is limited to removing advertisements that are technically not part of the web page but downloaded separately. Because of that limitation, there is also an additional mechanism called "element hiding" which allows hiding parts of web pages based on some unique properties.

The disadvantage here is that even hidden elements are still downloaded and require processing time in the browser.

Also, creating element hiding rules is more complicated because you have to select the right set of properties — only the elements that need to be hidden should have those, not the required page content.

Element Hiding Helper extension makes this task easier, yet creating good element hiding rules still requires much experimenting.

Adblock Plus is cross-platform and it works on Mac OS X, Windows and Linux.

Here are some key features of "Adblock Plus":

· Block all ads automatically, no distractions
· Browse faster and safer
· Fully customizable — you are in control
· Easy to contribute, report issues when you see them

Requirements:

· Firefox 3.6.13 - 12.0a1 or
· Thunderbird 3.1.7 - 12.0a1 or
· SeaMonkey 2.1 - 2.9a1 or
· Songbird or
· Google Chrome

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Added a way to disable automatic filter subscription updates by means of a hidden preference.
· Fixed: Blocking from context menu sometimes doesn't work if the context menu has a submenu.
· Fixed: Tabs on Flash and Java sometimes disappear before they can be clicked.
· Filter Preferences: Fixed the default width of the "Enabled" column.
· Blockable items: Fixed "Disable filter on site" feature.