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  • 2.5.5: (1664 Downloads)
    • No special cursor since bug 292789 landed (dirty fix only, working on a better one though)
  • 2.5.4: (1092 Downloads)
    • Improved link/redirect detection (it can now detect links without the http://)
    • Improved parsing speed for links with no redirects
    • Many small bugfixes
    • Updated default whitelist
  • 2.5.3: (9410 Downloads)
    • UPDATE NOTE: Due to internal changes, you need to go to the options dialog and click "Add Default Filters" once. Otherwise, Adblock Plus subscription links will be cleaned.
    • + Complete protocols can now be excluded via the whitelist
    • + Added better filter suggestions for some protocols (abp:// and file://)
    • ! Severely improved performance on links with no redirects (prevents lagging while scrolling on older PCs for most pages)
    • ! Updated the default whitelist. Please click "Add Default Filters" once!
    • ! Skip non-cleanable links to prevent Firefox hanging ("data:"-Links)
    • ! Switched to Firefox' integrated base64 decoding function
    • ! Changed way RDR takes to display the "RDR cursor" to be faster
    • - RDR broke Googlebar's (an extension) highlighting function
  • 2.5.2: (94 Downloads)
    • - Fixed incomplete pt-BR locale (affects pt-BR Firefox versions only)
  • 2.5.1: (64 Downloads)
    • + Editable filters (double click to edit, enter to accept, esc to abort editing)
    • + Options window is sizable when opened via RDR button
    • + RDR's toolbar button can have large icons (thanks TEO!)
    • + All RDR-contextmenu entries have tooltips displaying the host/link that will be added/removed/opened...
    • ! Better RDR cursor graphic
    • ! Options/Help window will now accurately fit its contents (thanks TEO!)
    • ! Code improvements for "Element properties"
    • ! Made important domain parts in the help dialog italic for easier spotting
    • ! updated default filters
    • ! Improved link detection in base64 encodes to reduce false-positives
    • ! Hitting Enter while adding/editing a filter in the options dialog will add/save the filter (instead of closing the options dialog)
    • - JavaScript links not being cleaned or cleaned incorrectly
    • - "RDR cursor" would not be displayed in some cases
    • - Default filters weren't always printed in italics
    • - Status Bar Button was overlayed by its context menu (prevents accidentally activating the 1st menu option on Linux)
    • - Wrong tooltip shown on button's context menu entries (This is a workaround for Firefox 2.0. The responsible bug is fixed in Firefox 3.0)
    • Locales: es-ES, fr-FR, hu-HU, it-IT, ja-JP, ko-KR, nl-NL, pt-BR (partly), uk-UA, zh-CN (mostly) (Thanks to: urko, myahoo, peuj, Pcdingo, Cashman, MatrixIsAllOver, drry, wtspout, markh, humbertosartini, myroslav, WangKing)
  • 2.5: (89 Downloads)
    • + 3.0a6 compatibility
    • + Cleaned links now have a special cursor as an additional indicator (on by default)
    • + Added Help Dialog explaining the filter system
    • + (Un)Cleaned URL now shows as a tooltip when hovering "Open (Un)Cleaned Link" in context menu
    • - Drag&Drop dropped the uncleaned link
    • - JavaScript links should now execute in the page's context when called via "Open Uncleaned Link"
    • ! Matching agains whole links now only works when filter is preceeded by protocol://
    • ! Dropped Firefox 1.5 support
    • Locales: es-ES, fr-FR, hu-HU, it-IT, ja-JP (mostly), ko-KR, nl-NL, pt-BR (partly), uk-UA, zh-CN (mostly) (Thanks to: urko, myahoo, peuj, Pcdingo, Cashman, MatrixIsAllOver, drry, wtspout, markh, humbertosartini, myroslav, WangKing)
  • 2.4: (123 Downloads)
    • + Tool- and Statusbar button feature right-click context menu for easily adding and removing whitelist entries. Middle click on an entry to open the options dialog with the corresponding URL inserted for easy filter customization
    • + Options dialog displays default entries italic
    • + Options dialog provides button to re-add default entries
    • + base64 encoded redirects are now detected and cleaned
    • + Hidden pref in order to be able to (ab)use the whitelist as blacklist (set extensions.rdr.blacklist to true)
    • - 2007/03/28 Fixed even more not cutting after &
    • - Status bar not displaying URLs at all
    • - RDR breaks JS image loading on this page (link) [click on triangles]
    • - Adblock subscription links aren't cleaned anymore
    • - Some links aren't cut correctly after & (Hopefully for real this time; see testpage)
    • - An empty whitelist will make RDR stop working
    • - RDR would sometimes eat a filter replacing it with 'undefined'
    • - RDR wouldn't add all default filters when clicking the add button
    • ! Removed dead code
    • ! Improved internal link parsing for easier extensibility and for better debug output
  • 2.3: (64 Downloads)
    • + Statusbar Button (switch it on in options)
    • + Tooltip descriptions
    • + Wildcards (use * as wildcard, URLs without any * will be reduced to host)
    • + Improved default whitelist
    • - Links aren't cropped off anymore after &
    • - Links are new resetted, even if they are contained within frames
    • - & are now replaced by & (fixes some links not working correctly)
    • ! Improved link resetting speed
    • Languages: de, en, es, fr, hr, hu, it, ko, nl, pt, zh
  • 2.2.1:
    • + Improved whitelist
      • Matching specific domain: addons.mozilla.org
      • Matching all subdomains: mozilla.org
      • Ignoring TLD: images.google.
      • Only match domain: google.
    • + Other context-menu functions now use cleaned links (Open Link In IE/Opera/Dublicated Tab etc.)
    • + All in Ohne Mouse Gestures use cleaned Links
    • + Middle Clicking the toolbar button now opens the options dialog
    • + A debugging function is available (See Hidden Options)
    • - Option for "Show 'Open (Un)Cleaned Link'" wasn't saved
    • - Contextmenu items didn't appear at all
    • - Contextmenu items disappeared when re-entering submenu (e.g. FlashGot/This Frame)
    • ! Reworked contextmenu handling to use less redundant calls
    • Languages: de, en, es, fr (partly), hr, hu, it, ko, nl
  • 2.2:
    • Never published due to packing mistake. See 2.2.1
  • 2.1: (63 Downloads)
    • Open (Un)Cleaned link via contextmenu (Hidden option available)
    • Added Toolbarbutton (you need to drag it from "Customize Toolbar" again)
    • Firefox 1.5 support
    • Added support for AiO-Gestures
    • Fixed History not working
    • Fixed "Umlaut" bug
    • RDR is now "ranked" higher than Smart Middle Click, which ensures that redirects contained within Javascript links are cleaned
    • Fixed TabMixPlus not always opening cleaned link
    • Fixed nl-NL locale
    • Languages: de, en, es, fr (partly), hr, hu, it, ko, nl, pt, zh
  • 2.0: (70 Downloads)
    • Redirect Remover 2 uses a new method to clean links. If it doesn't suit you, then 1.1.1 will be the last version for you.
    • Improved link matching (Thanks Philip Mateescu)
    • Cleaned links are preceeded by "RDR:" in the statusbar (no more highlighting)
    • Links are only cleaned when hovering/clicking them speeding up page load
    • A "copy cleaned link location" contextmenu item is available
    • Only whitelist support
    • Instead of geeky regex whitelist, a simple list of hosts is used
    • ...which allows easy and dialog free adding/removing via context menu
    • "Clean Images" function has been vastly improved and cleans images much earlier.
    • Easier options dialog
    • More info about cleaned links/images can be obtained via context menu -> Properties.
    • Reworked icon
    • This version supports de, en, es, fr, hu, it, ko, nl, pt
  • 1.1.1: (186 Downloads)
    • Updated max version
    • homepage links points to new address
    • Note: No changes to codebase
  • 1.1: (61 Downloads)
    • Reupload to fix AMO update loop
    • Note: No changes to codebase
  • 1.0: (48 Downloads)
    • es-ES added (thanks to Antonio a.k.a. urko)
    • Version bump to stop update loop
    • Note: No changes to codebase
  • 0.43: (61 Downloads)
    • Skip cleaning of a link if cleaned version and current URL are the same (avoids linking to itself - mostly used to get back to the page you were viweing upon login or language change)
    • Changed localization a bit to make the black-/whitelist thing clearer
  • 0.42: (56 Downloads)
    • Fixed a bug where the contextmenu add dialog only would add links to the whitelist, regardless of setting.
  • 0.41: (43 Downloads)
    • fixes the not appearing menu items as well as some minor things for the options dialog and URL detection.
  • 0.4: (61 Downloads)
    • Blacklist support
    • Quickly add a link to the white-/blacklist via contextmenu
    • Control redirects via contextmenu
    • Highlighting is now independent (highlight uncleaned links)
    • Real regular expression support
    • Completely reworked options dialog
    • Toolbar button: Use left click to control cleaning status and middle click to control highlighting
    • JavaScript links are fully supported now (removes redirects *and* JavaScripts)
    • Improved matching
    • Fixed bug with incompatible JS menu
  • 0.32: (54 Downloads)
    • Coloring of cleaned links now configurable via the options
    • Standard whitelist extended
    • Cleaning of JavaScript links deactivated because of some bugs
    • Cleaned URLs are again shown cleaned in the statusbar
    • URLs containing an URL with a querystring itself are now cleaned correctly
    • Pages can't skip the removal anymore by setting the controlvariable themselves
    • Now also works with newer Firefox nightlies
    • General code maintenance - now links to the new page
  • 0.31: (56 Downloads)
    • First release on AMO