adblock is outdated

[ubuntu4fun]

Binary package hint: ubufox

I installed Adblock via Ubufox in Gusty Gibbon Tribe 5, but I realized it wasn't effective and decided to install AdBlock Plus via normal Firefox Add-ons option. AdBlockPlus discovered that the older version of AdBlock have already been installed and suggested to uninstall it before running AdBlockPlus.

In my opinion ubufox isn't needed because the default way of getting extensions to Firefox works better.I think creating Ubuntu section in Firefox extensions website would be better way to go (Or at least the extensions in ubufox should be updated faster.)Why we should change something that is good and effective?

[Rob H (r-robh)]

I agree that Adblock should be replaced by Adblock Plus. Is Adblock even being developed/maintained anymore? I know ABP is. However, some extensions require elevated privilges to install. As well, the Lightning extension for Thunderbird does not work without installing it from the repositories, so I'm not sure where to draw the line this. Put extensions that require modifications to work with Mozilla apps that are installed from the repos into Synaptic and Ubufox (presumably something similar will also exist for Thunderbird at some point so that people will know to use the repo version of Lightning instead of from the Mozilla site). Or put in common extensions that have been confirmed to work well with Ubuntu's Firefox?

The only reason I picked up on Adblock and these extensions was with watching the Month of Screencasts (http://screencasts.ubuntu.com/) in Miro and they touched on Firefox and adding extensions in this new way.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

this is not an ubufox issue. adblock plus should be packaged then.

[NeoX (exitneox)]

adblock is installed using package manager but is really outdated (0.5.x.y)
adblockplus is not packaged

but do we really need to have them packaged and installed for everyone ?

Could we just make ubufox to get them from the addons repository and install them for the user ?

Concern : Ubuntu Linux Gutsy Beta

[Onestone (onestone)]

Ubufox installs extensions system-wide, that's the difference. But AdBlock should definitely be replaced by AdBlock Plus.

[MasterX (trashmaster-disposal)]

Adblock hasn't been touched for at least two years. The devs disappeared. Adblock is full of bugs (e.g. http://aasted.org/adblock/viewtopic.php?t=3056 ) and contains even some serious security issues (e.g. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=338114 ). It is not recommendable to use Adblock. I don't know who has been so starry-eyed to include it into Ubuntu...

Get Adblock Plus from the official Addons-Mozilla site, it is faster, more secure and more user-friendly: https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/1865

I hope someone in charge updates the package soon.

[Siegfried Gevatter (rainct)]

I'm packaging Adblock Plus, bug #191954.

[Siegfried Gevatter (rainct)]

Package mozilla-firefox-adblock has been replaced by ablock-plus in Ubuntu Hardy.