Related issue:
- https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/610
The service worker-related issue affects both
Chromium/Firefox: the type of resources fetched
from a service worker are uniformly set to
`xmlhttprequest`, hence losing a key piece of
information for the purpose of accurate content
filtering.
Related issue:
- https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/591
Additionally, I added a link to the logger in the
"About" pane in the dashboard in order to be able
to access the logger without having to go through
the popup panel.
Related issue:
- https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/983
- https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/1353
The current implementation reports statistics for all
static filters, and the presentation/featureset is
intentionally minimal: *Do not open issues about this.*
It's still a work in progress and it will be worked on
slowly and thoughtfully over time and as time allows.
Pausing the logger will not pause the collation of
filter hit statistics, thus it is possible to lower
the logger overhead by pausing logger output without
losing filter hit collation.
The motivations for the re-arrangement:
- Reducing the number of entry points:
matchStringExactString() has been removed and
matchString() is simply reused with a modifier parameter
to enable matching variants.
- Presumption that most matches, if any, occur early with
the left-most tokens in a URL. This gives a very small
marginal performance gain as per built-in benchmark.
Related discussion:
- https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/bqnsoa/
The `all` option is equivalent to specifying all
network-based types + `popup`, `document`,
`inline-font`, `inline-script`.
Example from discussion:
||bet365.com^$all
Above will block all network requests, block all popups,
prevent inline fonts/scripts from `bet365.com`. EasyList-
compatible syntax does not allow to accomplish that
semantic when using only `||bet365.com^`.
If using specific negated type options along with `all`,
the order in which the options appear is important. In
such case `all` should always be first, followed by
the negated type option(s).
Related issue:
- https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/2394
Additionally, I added a new advanced setting to control
how long after launch an auto-update session should be
started -- value is in seconds:
autoUpdateDelayAfterLaunch 180
Related issue:
- https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/3271
When navigating away by clicking another pane tab button,
there will be an embedded warning, which can be ignore
in order to proceed to the new pane, or dismissed by
either clicking on the "Stay" button or anywhere else
in the dashboard.
When navigating away by trying to close the tab, there will
be a built-in browser warning asking for confirmation.
Related issue:
- https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/131
The new advanced setting and its default value is:
allowGenericProceduralFilters false
Whenever this setting is toggled, the user is responsible
of forcing a reload of all filter lists so as to allow uBO
to process differently any existing generic procedural
cosmetic filters.
Related issue:
- https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/214
Built-in whitelist directives are now rendered differently
than user-defined whitelist directives. Also, removing a
built-in whitelist directive will only cause that directive
to be commented out, so that users do not have to remember
built-in directives should they want to bring them back.
Related issue:
https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/494
The built-in per-site switch rule
`no-scripting: behind-the-scene false` has been removed,
it should not ever be needed since there will always be a
valid root context for main- and sub-frames.
Related issue:
- https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/551
The issue fixes previewing the hiding/unhiding of targeted
elements in the element picker.
However it does not address the case of previewing
`:style(...)` operators -- this would require a much
more complex fix, which I am not sure is worth the
amount of work and increased code complexity.
Related issue:
- https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/127
Additionally, the extended exception filters in the
logger will be rendered with a line-through to more
easily distinguish them from non-exception ones.
Also, opportunistically converted revisited code to
ES6 syntax.
This was a TODO item:
- 07cbae66a4/src/js/cosmetic-filtering.js (L375)
µBlock.staticExtFilteringEngine.HostnameBasedDB has been
re-factored to accomodate the storing of specific cosmetic
filters.
As a result of this refactoring:
- Memory usage has been further decreased
- Performance of selector retrieval marginally
improved
- New internal representation opens the door
to use a specialized version of HNTrie, which
should further improve performance/memory
usage
Related issue:
- https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/572
Wildcards are now allowed in the hostname part of redirect
filters. There will be an attempt to find the longest
right-hand portion of the hostname with no wildcard. If
no non-empty hostname can be extracted, `*` will be used.
To be used at the console, as an investigation tool for
development purpose.
Using it to verify the content of the largest
FilterHostnameDict instance, I spotted an all-uppercase
hostname in the HNTrieRef instance:
µBlock.staticNetFilteringEngine.categories.get(0).get(0x10000000).dict.dump();
Thus the changes to static-net-filtering.js are to fix
the erroneous insertion of filters with uppercase
characters. The single instance found was a hostname entry
in Malware Domain List (TRIANGLESERVICESLTD dot COM).
The `null` placeholder are not necessary, we can just use
default arguments instead, and add the HNTrieContainer
references if and only if they are instanciated.
Related issue:
- https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/550
Related Chromium issue (I can't access it):
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=957866
Findings so far: affects browsers based on Chromium 74.
I could not reproduce the issue with either Chromium 73 or
Google Chrome 75.
This commit is a mitigation: to prevent sites from using
uBO's internal WAR secret for tracking purpose. A secret
can be used for at most one second, after which a new secret
is generated.
The original issue related to the implementation of
secret-gated web accessible resources is:
- https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/2823
The purpose of this new `:nth-ancestor(n)` operator is to
lookup the nth ancestor relative to the currently selected
node.
It is essentially equivalent to `:xpath(..)`, where
ancestor distance is expressed as a number rather than a
sequence of slash-separated `..`.
The rationale to introduce this new procedural selector
is to have a low overhead way to accomplish ancestor
selection.
This commit implements the alphabetical ordering of HNTrie
nodes, so as to make it possible to bail out early at
HNTrie.matches() time.
Contrary to what I expected, there is no performance gain
observed to HNTrie.matches() as per benchmarks -- I find
the results perplexing.
Because of this I will revert this commit immediately.
The purpose of this commit is to record the changes so
that I can bring them back to life in the future whenever
I want to investigate further.
Consider the two following filters:
example.com
www.example.com
This commit make it so that if the first filter is
already present in a given HNTrie, the second filter
will not be stored, since HNTrie will _always_
return the first filter as a match whenever the
hostname to match is example.com or any subdomain
of example.com.
The detection of such pointless filters is
virtually free when adding a hostname to an HNTrie
instance (given how data is stored in the trie), so
in practice no overhead is incurred to detect such
pointless filters.
The ability to ignore impossible to match filters
in HNTrie instances will _especially_ benefit those
using large hosts files.
Examples of how this helps using real configurations:
- Default lists:
444 filters out of 100,382 were ignored as a result
of this commit.
- Default lists + "Energized Ultimate Protection":
283,669 filters out of 903,235 were ignored as a
result of this commit.
Side note: There was no measurable difference between
the two configurations above in the performance of
the matching algorithm as reported by the built-in
benchmark tool.
