diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index c75e0e46..72afdfdc 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -1,20 +1,24 @@
 {
-    "name": "paquettg/php-html-parser",
+    "name": "a2design-inc/php-html-parser",
     "type": "library",
-    "version": "1.7.0",
+    "version": "1.7.6",
     "description": "An HTML DOM parser. It allows you to manipulate HTML. Find tags on an HTML page with selectors just like jQuery.",
     "keywords": ["html", "dom", "parser"],
-    "homepage": "https://github.com/paquettg/php-html-parser",
+    "homepage": "https://a2design-inc/paquettg/php-html-parser",
     "license": "MIT",
     "authors": [
         {
             "name": "Gilles Paquette",
             "email": "paquettg@gmail.com",
             "homepage": "http://gillespaquette.ca"
+        },
+        {
+            "name": "Vladislav Bezverkhiy",
+            "email": "rabbiabramg@gmail.com"
         }
     ],
     "require": {
-        "php": ">=5.6",
+        "php": ">=5.4",
         "paquettg/string-encode": "~0.1.0"
     },
     "require-dev": {
@@ -23,7 +27,7 @@
         "mockery/mockery": "~0.9.0"
     },
     "autoload": {
-        "psr-0": { 
+        "psr-0": {
         	"PHPHtmlParser": "src/"
        	}
     },
diff --git a/src/PHPHtmlParser/Dom.php b/src/PHPHtmlParser/Dom.php
index f3e17ff9..34514d13 100644
--- a/src/PHPHtmlParser/Dom.php
+++ b/src/PHPHtmlParser/Dom.php
@@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ class Dom
         'base',
         'embed',
         'spacer',
+        '!--'
     ];
 
     /**
@@ -373,7 +374,10 @@ protected function clean($str)
         $str = mb_eregi_replace("<!doctype(.*?)>", '', $str);
 
         // strip out comments
-        $str = mb_eregi_replace("<!--(.*?)-->", '', $str);
+        if (!$this->options->get('allowComments')) {
+            $str = mb_eregi_replace("<!--(.*?)-->", '', $str);
+        }
+        $str = mb_eregi_replace("<!-->", '', $str);
 
         // strip out cdata
         $str = mb_eregi_replace("<!\[CDATA\[(.*?)\]\]>", '', $str);
@@ -394,7 +398,9 @@ protected function clean($str)
         $str = mb_eregi_replace("(<\?)(.*?)(\?>)", '', $str);
 
         // strip smarty scripts
-        $str = mb_eregi_replace("(\{\w)(.*?)(\})", '', $str);
+        if (!$this->options->get('allowBladeTags')) {
+            $str = mb_eregi_replace("(\{\w)(.*?)(\})", '', $str);
+        }
 
         return $str;
     }
@@ -503,7 +509,7 @@ protected function parseTag()
 
         // attributes
         while ($this->content->char() != '>' &&
-            $this->content->char() != '/') {
+            $this->content->char() != '/' && $tag !== '!--') {
             $space = $this->content->skipByToken('blank', true);
             if (empty($space)) {
                 $this->content->fastForward(1);