Release notes for new versions of Ghostery for Opera
Greetings Operatic Ghostery Users! We can’t thank you enough for all the feedback you provide us! In our on-going effort to make Ghostery more secure we have made a few updates as well as fixed a few issues. Here is what we did: - Switched GhostRank to HTTPS for better privacy/security. - Added...
Greetings Operatic Ghostery Users! We can’t thank you enough for all the feedback you provide us! Opera released a cool Facebook for Speed Dial extension but unfortunately if you block Facebook trackers in Ghostery, the extension doesn’t work. The fix required coordination and fixes on both Opera’s and Ghostery’s ends. Facebook for Speed...
Hello Operatic Ghosterians! The new and improved version v0.9.7 is a go! You can download it here. This release has a few patches and tweaks for the previous version. We really appreciate how vocal you all were in your pursuit of Ghostery for Opera, and we can’t thank you enough for opting-in to Ghostrank...
Hello Operatic Ghosterians! The new and improved version v0.9.6 is a go! You can download it here. Before there was a Ghostery for Opera, we heard from Opera users all the time. Internally, we puzzled a bit over this. We all like Opera a lot – but would there be enough users to really justify...
Hey Ghost people. We’ve been working hard all summer, updating all of the Ghosteries. This is your official heads-up that it’s going to start raining releases very soon. Like, tomorrow soon (Ghostery for Chrome’s having an update). Look for something on every platform we currently support: Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari, IE AND iOS. We’ll...
Ghostery for Opera 0.9.5 is live! We’ve made some significant changes, the most important of which is our inclusion of surrogate scripts. Surrogate scripts are non-tracking scripts that we inject when Ghostery blocks content from loading, in order to make the content function appropriately. Previously, you may have been watching a video that couldn’t...
Some Ghostery for Opera (Beta and Next) users brought a bug to our attention recently: the dropdown menu would often appear blank. We contacted the awesome Norwegians at Opera about this, and they said it’s on their shortlist of fixes, but in the meantime we’ve patched over the issue with a small fix of...
Hello, Opera Ghosterians. May we introduce you to Ghostery for Opera 0.9.2? It’s got some new features to improve your experience, listed below: Updated detection to use the same converted-for-Opera patterns that are used for blocking. (Improves performance). Made app names clickable when quick-editing blocking options (ease of use). Better ellipses for long 3pe...
Some users were reporting high CPU usage when accessing pages that included dynamically inserted objects (like Google Images, for instance). We fixed that for Mac users, and are currently working on fixing it for PC. Download it here. Just want to give thanks to everyone helping us work out the kinks in this beta....
Howdy Ghosterians! It’s our pleasure to announce today the release of Ghostery for Opera, beta version 0.9! You can download Ghostery for Opera at the Opera extension gallery (http://mygho.st/opera) . First, we owe a lot of thanks to Ghostery users who simply would not let us dismiss the idea of Ghostery for the Opera...
