Thanks to Fabrice Desré and Wladimir Palant, development builds of AdBlock Plus support Fennec! The port embraces Fennec’s minimalistic design asthetic – exposing only a simple options UI. However, this is more than enough to make a great impact on browsing in Fennec.
Besides reducing the visual clutter on web pages, ad-heavy pages load noticeably faster! As Wladimir notes in his post, AdBlock Plus will only work in nightly builds of Fennec (version 1.0b6pre). Install a nightly version (including desktop versions) or use the new nightly update channel from your Maemo device. He also mentions that work to improve the first-run experience is coming in future releases.
Install a development build of AdBlock Plus by navigating to https://adblockplus.org/devbuilds/adblockplus/ using Fennec and click on the most recent XPI file. Fennec will step you through installing the add-on.
Thank you so much for this. Now it’s just a matter of seeing how long it takes for my N900 to be delivered unlocked to Australia. It may not be until after the official 1.0 release!
Sounds awesome, I don’t have an N900 but if I did I’d be even more happy right now. I can’t actually imagine the web without AdBlock Plus.
Hi,
I’m starting to develop extensions. I downloaded this: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mobile/1.0b5/fennec-1.0b5.en-US.win32.zip
I already read the Get Started links: https://addons.mozilla.org/pt-PT/mobile/challenge
Now i’m read this: https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Firefox_addons_developer_guide
That is the way to develop extensions for mobile phone?
Thanks
@Jose – I would use this information for creating an add-on specific to Fennec:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Fennec/Extensions
HI,
I’m really new at extensions but i have an ideia and i want really enter in the contest so i’m doing a high effort to can complete my extension before 7 of december.
I created this directory: C:\Users\Zé\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Fennec\Profiles\tep0vwfr.default\extensions\metropt@graphicalnation.com
My install.rdf is:
metropt@graphicalnation.com
metRo IT
1.0
bla bla bla
José Xavier
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I want to start to cread the extension and i have two questions:
-can i add a button to control bar?
-I read that in Fennec it rendered HTML and drawn into a element, i want to know if i can drawn something inside that canvas per example a blue box. When we click somewhere inside the canvas and if it a hyperlink it will open that link, so the Fennec have the information about the points where we can click?
Thanks,
José Xavier
Hi again,
Sorry if i’m boring you.
Based in that link http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2009/09/fennec-handling-add-on-options/ and i creat the folow:
http://feupload.fe.up.pt/get/kkIqhvYEwsTkXle
It’s already appear in the fennec extensions but the options is disable. :S The files have very little code if you can see it thanks.
HI want to start to cread the extension and i have two questions:
-can i add a button to control bar?
-I read that in Fennec it rendered HTML and drawn into a element, i want to know if i can drawn something inside that canvas per example a blue box. When we click somewhere inside the canvas and if it a hyperlink it will open that link, so the Fennec have the information about the points where we can click?I I HAPPY TO WRITE U THIS