No blockable items in firefox 4.0? Anywhere?

[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?

[YaoGuy]

I have the latest version of Adblock installed, and I can't get it to block anything, anywhere. It's enabled.

[Wladimir Palant]

What other extensions are installed?

[YaoGuy]

AdBlock Plus 1.3.7 and that's all. No other extensions.

[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?

[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.

[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.

[YaoGuy]

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?

[kb]

I've been having exactly the same problem since installing FF 4.0.1. I, too, get the "Filter Undefined" error.

[YaoGuy]

since installing FF 4.0.1.

That is EXACTLY when my problem began.

[Wladimir Palant]

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.

[Guest]

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.

[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.

[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.

[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!!!