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No blockable items in firefox 4.0? Anywhere?

Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 1:27 am
by YaoGuy
Since I installed the latest version of Firefox, it's become clear to me how important AdBlock is.

I can't get AdBlock to do anything.

If I right-click an image, the drop menu used to include an Adblock option; the option is no longer there.

If I click to "Open blockable items," the "Blockable items on current page" list comes up -- and it's always empty.

Am I doing something wrong? What would you suggest to resolve this?

Re: No blockable items in firefox 4.0? Anywhere?

Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 1:31 am
by YaoGuy
I have the latest version of Adblock installed, and I can't get it to block anything, anywhere. It's enabled.

Re: No blockable items in firefox 4.0? Anywhere?

Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 8:15 am
by Wladimir Palant
What other extensions are installed?

Re: No blockable items in firefox 4.0? Anywhere?

Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 11:28 pm
by YaoGuy
AdBlock Plus 1.3.7 and that's all. No other extensions.

Re: No blockable items in firefox 4.0? Anywhere?

Posted: Fri May 13, 2011 7:37 am
by Wladimir Palant
That's weird... After opening the list of blockable items, please try going to chrome://adblockplus/content/errors.html - does it show any errors?

Re: No blockable items in firefox 4.0? Anywhere?

Posted: Fri May 13, 2011 8:06 am
by Michael
This is an issue that has been reported by another person recently and was resolved by renaming the "adblockplus" folder in the user's profile.

Probably not the same issue

Posted: Fri May 13, 2011 6:48 pm
by Ngaur
Michael referred to a problem report which was site specific. I don't think that's the same situation the OP here has raised.

I'm seeing this problem recently for all sites, on my home computer and my work computer. Different versions of Ubuntu and Firefox. I suspect the same version of ABP, but I'd need to check that.

Right now I'm at my home computer.
Ubuntu 9.10
Firefox 3.6.16
Adblock Plus 1.3.6
Element Hiding Helper for Adblock Plus 1.1.1

I've tried renaming the adblockplus folder and restarting firefox. Doesn't help. ie Still nothing in 'view blockable items'.
Looking at my ABP preferences, it seems that my ABP Element Hiding Helper rules are still there. Also it looks like the subscriptions are still known, but not downloading properly. I can download the subscription URLs OK though if I point my browser at those URLs.

Re: No blockable items in firefox 4.0? Anywhere?

Posted: Fri May 13, 2011 7:00 pm
by YaoGuy
Wladimir Palant wrote:That's weird... After opening the list of blockable items, please try going to chrome://adblockplus/content/errors.html - does it show any errors?
Yes, thanks for the suggestion, and this is what it shows:

You are running Adblock Plus 1.3.7, build be71f31a6ed3.

Errors related to Adblock Plus:
Error:
filter is undefined

Location: chrome://adblockplus-modules/content/Matcher.jsm line 214

Then it repeats the same error text about fifty bajillion other times (ok, about thirty times, but I felt like exaggerating).

What does that mean, and what can I do about it?

Re: No blockable items in firefox 4.0? Anywhere?

Posted: Fri May 13, 2011 7:18 pm
by kb
I've been having exactly the same problem since installing FF 4.0.1. I, too, get the "Filter Undefined" error.

Re: No blockable items in firefox 4.0? Anywhere?

Posted: Sat May 14, 2011 5:04 am
by YaoGuy
kb wrote:since installing FF 4.0.1.
That is EXACTLY when my problem began.

Re: No blockable items in firefox 4.0? Anywhere?

Posted: Sun May 15, 2011 7:03 am
by Wladimir Palant
YaoGuy wrote:Yes, thanks for the suggestion, and this is what it shows:

You are running Adblock Plus 1.3.7, build be71f31a6ed3.

Errors related to Adblock Plus:
Error:
filter is undefined

Location: chrome://adblockplus-modules/content/Matcher.jsm line 214
Ok, that's a starting point. So Adblock Plus loaded cache.js from your profile but for some reason failed loading patterns.ini after that. Which would cause exactly the effect you describe. Question is of course why it didn't load patterns.ini. Could you open chrome://adblockplus/content/errors.html immediately after starting the browser? That will hopefully show the initial error, before the "bajillion" of follow-up errors pushes it out of the list.

Re: No blockable items in firefox 4.0? Anywhere?

Posted: Sun May 15, 2011 8:11 pm
by Guest
Wladimir Palant wrote:Could you open chrome://adblockplus/content/errors.html immediately after starting the browser? That will hopefully show the initial error, before the "bajillion" of follow-up errors pushes it out of the list.
I don't think this'll be much help:

You are running Adblock Plus 1.3.7, build be71f31a6ed3.

Errors related to Adblock Plus:
Error:
filter is undefined

Location: chrome://adblockplus-modules/content/Matcher.jsm line 214

Just once this time, but no additional information.

Re: No blockable items in firefox 4.0? Anywhere?

Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 10:06 am
by Wladimir Palant
I got the Adblock Plus data from a forum.mozilla-russia.org user, can reproduce the issue now. Looking into it right now.

Re: No blockable items in firefox 4.0? Anywhere?

Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 10:39 am
by Wladimir Palant
Turned out that there was a data inconsistency between patterns.ini and cache.js, probably because patterns.ini got corrupted earlier. I added a change to resolve such inconsistencies automatically: https://hg.adblockplus.org/adblockplus/rev/fd3ff99dce2f. A development build with this change will be available in 10 minutes. I would like to hear whether this development build resolves the issue for the people who reported it here - I think about releasing Adblock Plus 1.3.8 in a few days.

Re: No blockable items in firefox 4.0? Anywhere?

Posted: Wed May 18, 2011 7:18 pm
by kb
Installed the dev build and it instantly resolved the problem - ABP functions just as before, which is to say perfectly. I'd failed to appreciate just how good the program is until the ads came back. Thank you!!!