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Martin Brinkmann at gHacks reports
Users of the Pale Moon web browser who try to install the popular adblocking extension Adblock Plus won't be able to do so anymore as it was added to the blocklist by the Pale Moon team.
Pale Moon users who have it installed may have noticed that it is no longer enabled either.
[...] The Pale Moon forum is usually a good place to start--reveals that the team decided to add Adblock Plus to the blocklist because of incompatibilities with Pale Moon.
I've put it in the blocklist because it has started giving severe usability issues (see the threads with "large bar with red text at the bottom of the browser" etc.). ABP should not be used on any v25+ version of Pale Moon because it's not compatible.
The compatibility issues seem to be mostly interface related when Adblock Plus is running in Pale Moon.
Moonchild, the lead developer of Pale Moon suggests to use an alternative such as uBlock, uBlock Origin, or Adblock Latitude instead. The latter is a fork of Adblock Plus that is developed and maintained specifically for Pale Moon.
[...] The most recent Adblock Plus update is also incompatible with Firefox versions prior to 29 due to the extension's support of "standard-conformant JavaScript generators syntax". This means that pre-Firefox 29 users won't be able to use Adblock Plus as well.
In the comments, Jojo says
I never noticed any problem with ABP
and Sven replies
That is exactly the problem. ABP works to a large extent but has caused a bunch of smaller and larger issues over the last couple of weeks or even month (in fact it was never compatible with Pale Moon 25). Many people didn't notice that it was related to ABP until they came to the forum and were told to switch [off of] ABP.
(Score: 5, Informative) by iWantToKeepAnon on Wednesday August 05 2015, @04:11PM
From the palemoon forum [palemoon.org] (various comments/threads): "Since ABP's developers are adamant about not supporting Pale Moon and not wanting to address any compatibility and usability issues, we are on our own". "That is exactly what I am gonna have to do.. I am forking Adblock Plus.. First order of business besides rebranding will be to remove that non-intrusive ads whitelist bull so that ABP and ABE people can go back to using one add-on"; that's a positive!. And this "Nearly every enhancement has been a 'Firefox changed something so we must too' type of change I count maybe 4-10 commits from 2.4.1 to 2.6.5 that have been to actually enhance ABP and NOT be because of Firefox bs".
So the short version is, it is being blocked b/c it is causing problems w/ PM and the code changes have been FF driven and not enhancements to the technology AND PM isn't being left in the cold b/c a supported fork has been created in Adblock Latitude.
"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." -- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2015, @06:32PM
The short short version is: open source developers start crying as soon as things fork and they don't get their way. In this case I will assume ABP and this moon moon guy are both at fault.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2015, @11:05PM
Oh, is that what it was? I thought it was "They've changed something and we're going to have to redesign stuff to make it work. This is what we promised we wouldn't do, so we won't."