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FileFront's blocked ads for downloading files... [n/a]

Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 10:25 pm
by ant
Examples: http://files.filefront.com/World of War ... einfo.html
http://files.filefront.com/Project Afte ... einfo.html
Or any Web pages to download files...

EasyList (USA)'s Filter (updated a few minutes ago):

Addresses: ##*[class*="bannerAd"]
##*[id$="AdArea"]
Filters: ##*[id$="AdArea"]
##*[id$="AdArea"]

Used SeaMonkey v1.1.16 in an updated Windows XP Pro. SP3. Thank you in advance. :)

Re: FileFront's blocked ads for downloading files...

Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 5:53 pm
by Ares2
This seems to a SeaMonkey (Gecko 1.8?) problem: Element Hiding rules seem to be not case-sensitive:

##*[id$="AdArea"] (note the upper case "A")
hides the div id=downloadArea (lower case "a")

So I suggest you just disable the filter yourself.

I haven't tested it, but I guess switching to SeaMonkey 2 would fix it too.

Re: FileFront's blocked ads for downloading files...

Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 8:12 pm
by ant
Ares2 wrote:This seems to a SeaMonkey (Gecko 1.8?) problem: Element Hiding rules seem to be not case-sensitive:

##*[id$="AdArea"] (note the upper case "A")
hides the div id=downloadArea (lower case "a")

So I suggest you just disable the filter yourself.

I haven't tested it, but I guess switching to SeaMonkey 2 would fix it too.
Yes, disabling this will work. Hence how I discovered the filter causing the problem. Is there a way to add a custom filter (in my custom list) to ignore this line since I keep your filters updated every five days or less?

I won't be using SeaMonkey v2 until it is stable. It is only in alpha. :( Doesn't Firefox v2 have this problem too since it is based on Gecko v1.8?

Re: FileFront's blocked ads for downloading files...

Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 8:23 pm
by Ares2
ant wrote:Is there a way to add a custom filter (in my custom list) to ignore this line since I keep your filters updated every five days or less?
Once disabled, it stays disabled until I change the filter.
ant wrote:I won't be using SeaMonkey v2 until it is stable. It is only in alpha.
Seamonkey 2.0b1 will be out soon. Stable enough?
ant wrote:Doesn't Firefox v2 have this problem too since it is based on Gecko v1.8?
I didn't test it but I do think so. However, according to https://addons.mozilla.org/statistics/addon/1865 only ~5% of all Adblock Plus users still use it, and the next Adblock Plus version will drop Gecko 1.8.0 support anyway, so I'm not going to bother with them.

Edit: Should be Gecko 1.8.1

Re: FileFront's blocked ads for downloading files...

Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 8:35 pm
by ant
Ares2 wrote:
ant wrote:Is there a way to add a custom filter (in my custom list) to ignore this line since I keep your filters updated every five days or less?
Once disabled, it stays disabled until I change the filter.
ant wrote:I won't be using SeaMonkey v2 until it is stable. It is only in alpha.
Seamonkey 2.0b1 will be out soon. Stable enough?
ant wrote:Doesn't Firefox v2 have this problem too since it is based on Gecko v1.8?
I didn't test it but I do think so. However, according to https://addons.mozilla.org/statistics/addon/1865 only ~5% of all Adblock Plus users still use it, and the next Adblock Plus version will drop Gecko 1.8.0 support anyway, so I'm not going to bother with them.
2.0b1 is still beta (prerelease). I mean final and stable. :)

As for dropping support Gecko v1.8.0, does that mean dropping SeaMonkey even though it hasn't been released as a final version? When is the next release of ABP? :(

Re: FileFront's blocked ads for downloading files...

Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 11:12 pm
by Ares2
ant wrote:As for dropping support Gecko v1.8.0, does that mean dropping SeaMonkey even though it hasn't been released as a final version? When is the next release of ABP? :(
You will have to ask Wladimir. I would say not before Firefox 3.5 comes out.