EasyList and Tracking Filter now adjusted for Firefox 3

[rick752]

I just found out that a common syntax I use in the EasyList and Tracking Filter subscriptions that affects mostly whitelisting and blacklisting of flash objects is different in Firefox Beta 3. That means that users may have had problems with certain videos not working correctly in Firefox 3b5 that work fine in Firefox 2.

I have just adjusted and uploaded the filters, so now these object strings (mostly for flash videos) should work correctly in either version of Firefox as they were originally intended. Non-working videos on sites such as The Onion, MLB, and NBC should now play correctly. Most of these problems occurred because of non-working 'allowances'.

EDIT*
For others who make filters:
If you've used the syntax '$other' in your filtering, you will have to also use '$object-subrequest' for that same filter to work correctly in Firefox 3.

The easiest way to do it is just to add the switches together:

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$other,object-subrequest
or
$~other,~object-subrequest 

... or am I the only person who missed this change?

[Wladimir Palant]

Yes, what could only be classified as "other" in Firefox 2, is now "xbl", "ping", "xmlhttprequest", "object-subrequest", "dtd" in Firefox 3. If you used $other in a filter rule, most of the time you meant $object-subrequest (keep both as Rick suggested to stay compatible with Firefox 2).