Social buttons broken on first-run page when activating social blocking list

[arthur]

Environment

Firefox 31
Adblock Plus 2.6.4.3859

How to reproduce

1. Open the firs-run page in Firefox by going to chrome://adblockplus/content/ui/firstRun.html
2. Activate the social blocking list if necessary
3. Click either the Google Plus or Twitter sharing button

Observed behaviour

The sharing overlay appears but the buttons are blocked. Sharing/liking isn't possible.

Expected behaviour

When clicking on the share buttons after activating the social blocking list, the user should be taken to the respective social media page of Adblock Plus like with the Facebook botton.

This is also happening in Chrome.

Via Passbrains: ​https://www.passbrains.com/dashboard/view-ticket.php?ticket_no=ARE-21

[barbaz]

I can confirm that this happens with latest dev build of ABP on latest SeaMonkey release. But...

Replying to arthur:

The sharing overlay appears but the buttons are blocked. Sharing/liking isn't possible.

Isn't that the whole point of a social *blocking* list?
I would think that the issue here is that the Facebook button on the first-run page is *not* getting blocked - and that would be a filterlist issue, not an ABP issue.

[arthur]

Replying to barbaz:

I would think that the issue here is that the Facebook button on the first-run page is *not* getting blocked - and that would be a filterlist issue, not an ABP issue.

When a user activates the social blocking list, it blocks all like, share, follow buttons and such that (could potentially) track you. That's why you don't see those buttons in the sharing overlay. Instead of the overlay the social media buttons should simply link to the social media pages so the user can go there and like/follow/+1 that page if (s)he still wants to. This is currently only working for the Facebook button.

[philll]

See #1223

[philll]

Made Firefox and Firefox mobile available as seperate platforms.