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install for: Firefox 1.0.x
Mozilla suite 1.7.x
SeaMonkey
Netscape 7 to 9.0
Other browsers:
Camino
K-Meleon
Galeon
OS Specific:
FreeBSD Ports
RPMs
 

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Installation Install Flashblock 1.5.unstable for Firefox 3.0, Firefox Nightly, Firefox Aurora, and Firefox Beta. WARNING: This is the developmental version containing the latest features but is untested and may contain unknown bugs. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!

What's New:
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Install Flashblock 1.5.15 for Firefox 3.0 to 8.0 trunk builds; Flock 1.0 to 2.0.*; and Intel Midbrowser 0.2 to 2.0.0.*.

What's New:
  • Updated locales from Babelzilla including: fi-FI, uk-UA, it-IT, de, fr, he-IL, da, ko-KR, ru-RU, zh-TW, ja-JP.
  • New locales: hy-AM, th, eo, hsb-DE.
  • [fix] no-NB locale should be nb-NO ( Norwegian bokmal).
  • [new] Add an option to Sync the whitelist using Weave/Firefox Sync.
  • New OS X placeholder images from: Bug 614485.
  • [fix] Bug 23456 Flashblock blocks all flash-based gadgets.
  • [fix] NS_ERROR_DOM_NOT_FOUND_ERR in flashblockShowFlash().

Known Issues:
  • Some flash in IFRAMEs is not blocked. This appears to be a Mozilla bug. See: Bug 652300.

Install Flashblock 1.5.14 for Firefox 2.0 to 4.0b trunk builds; Flock 1.0 to 2.0.*; and Intel Midbrowser 0.2 to 2.0.0.*.

What's New:
  • [fix] Bug 18971 Please integrate nicely with content blockers (Adblock Plus).
    • Fix Firefox 2.0 regression caused by patch in Bug 18971.
    • Fix sIFR breakage caused by patch in Bug 18971.
  • [fix] Bug 22683 "document.createEvent is undefined" error prevents Flashblock from working.
  • [fix] typo in install.js (Flashblock 1.3.17a only).
  • [fix] Camino Bug 573815 Flashblock does not display play button on Dailymotion videos.
  • Add <em:unpack>true</em:unpack> to the install.rdf to force Firefox4 to unpack the XPI.

Known Issues:
  • Options checkbox to control silverlight blocking is off by default due to Bug 22469 (Silverlight movie not unblocked).

Install Flashblock 1.5.13 for Firefox 1.5 to 3.7a trunk builds; Flock 1.0 to 2.0.*; and Intel Midbrowser 0.2 to 2.0.0.*.

What's New:
  • [new] Options checkbox to control silverlight blocking (off by default).
  • [new] Dynamically change the toolbar button label depending on block state.
  • [new] es-AR and sr-RS locales from Babelzilla. (translations now provided by Babelzilla)
  • [fix] Bug 22168 "Node was not found" code: "8".
  • [fix] For the sIFR-alternate binding move the position: static style from the css into the XBL. This used to crash Firefox 1.0.7.
  • [new] Desupport Gecko 1.7 browsers (Flashblock 1.3 branch).

Known Issues:
  • Options checkbox to control silverlight blocking is off by default due to Bug 22469 (Silverlight movie not unblocked).

Install Flashblock 1.5.12 for Firefox 1.5 to 3.7a trunk builds; Flock 1.0 to 2.0.*; and Intel Midbrowser 0.2 to 2.0.0.*.

What's New:
  • [fix] Bug 20817 Make Flowplayer work with Flashblock instead of offering to download the .flv file. Includes a followup fix to include other formats offered for download including .MP4
  • Ongoing refactoring of Flashblock code.
  • Detect more broken flash and stealth flash objects.
  • Add ".*" to the end of the whitelist strings during compare so users don't have to do this manually.
  • Initial support for blocking Silverlight. Thanks to Sven Schneider for the silverlight buttons

Install Flashblock 1.5.11 for Firefox 1.5 to 3.6; Flock 1.0 to 2.0.*; and Intel Midbrowser 0.2 to 2.0.0.*.

What's New:
  • [new] Added vi-VN (Vietnamese) locale.
  • [new] Added no-NB (Norwegian BokmÃ¥l) locale.
  • [fix] Bug 16856 Whitelist doesn't allow the addition of subsites. e.g. foo.bar.com/somepage.html.
  • [fix] Fixed some height/width and display alignment problems with the placeholder.

To test your flashblock installation, visit this page: http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/welcome/


Older Versions Older versions of Flashblock can be found at: http://downloads.mozdev.org/flashblock/

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