

- ADBLOCK FOR SAFARI 5.1.7 INSTALL
- ADBLOCK FOR SAFARI 5.1.7 UPDATE
- ADBLOCK FOR SAFARI 5.1.7 UPGRADE
- ADBLOCK FOR SAFARI 5.1.7 PLUS
ADBLOCK FOR SAFARI 5.1.7 PLUS
I'm not sure, but I think that, under Adblock Plus 1.12.5 and Safari 12, the error message in 2 just shows up before this gets hit if substantial rule subscriptions are selected, and that the underlying problem reported in trac #5571 is still relevant, but exacerbated with Safari 12, as it's no longer possible to uncheck "Use Safari's native Content Blocking (experimental)": the checkbox is marked, and greyed out for me. It doesn't sound like this has been addressed in AdBlock Plus because it's not possible to meet Apple's requirements and also satisfy all the types of rules that ABP supports (see that trac history for the details). That is, Safari's native Content Blocking does not permit both *-domain and *-top-url properties in the same list. In this case, Safari displays an error dialog with the header "Adblock Plus" and the text "Rule list compilation failed: A list cannot have if-domain and unless-domain mixed with if-top-url and unless-top-url" That looks like this: Based on the "too many rules" error message, I tried disabling "EasyList" (so that NO subscriptions are enabled), disabling the Adblock Plus extension, re-enabling the extension, and loading a page known to have ads.
ADBLOCK FOR SAFARI 5.1.7 UPGRADE
I think that this is the same behavior previously reported in this forum here, where the triggering event was an upgrade to Adblock Plus 1.12.5 under an unspecified version of Safari on what appears to be macOS 10.14 (Mojave), here (without any version context), and plausibly more. I'm aware that testing actual ad-blocking in this way isn't very reliable more on that below. It appears that some (all?) ads are still blocked as intended, although the count of ads blocked in the Adblock Plus extension icon (to the left of the address field) does not appear.

There are a few failure modes, and I don't think that they're all necessarily related to each other.

(I don't think I'm saying anything new here, but it took me a couple hours of searching and reading to pull the several threads here together, and I'm hoping at least to save others that frustration.)
ADBLOCK FOR SAFARI 5.1.7 INSTALL
The problem described there ("fails to install and will not function") is fixed, but not everything functions as it should. There's been mention here previously that the Adblock Plus extension may not function properly under Safari 12. To be clear, I am using the version of Adblock Plus 1.12.5 installed "from the Safari Extensions Gallery", to which one is directed when trying to load the "adblockplussafari-1.12.5.safariextz" file downloaded from the front page. It's not clear to me whether that second part was expected. After doing so, Adblock Plus is marked as an extension that "will slow down your web browsing", which I believe was to be expected, but it also simply fails to function when explicitly enabled.
ADBLOCK FOR SAFARI 5.1.7 UPDATE
Apple's software update prompted me today () to update Safari to version 12 (from 11.1.2 specifically to Safari 12606.2.11).
