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.
I had exceptions thrown by that code once in a while,
about the `port` object not being connected; possibly
occurs only when using dev tools with breakpoints
in uBO's code. Even if this can be reproduced randomly
only when debugging uBO, it costs nothing to add code
in there to handle exceptions.
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.
