Related issue:
- https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/682#issuecomment-515197130
The following advanced setting has been added:
updateAssetBypassBrowserCache
Default to `false`. If set to `true`, uBO will ensure the
browser cache is bypassed when fetching a remote resource.
This is for the convenience of filter list maintainers who
may want to test the latest version of their lists when
fetched from their remote location.
Related feedback:
- a54cb2e38f (commitcomment-34387041)
Regression from converting uBO resources into
immutable resources. This affects only Chromium-based
browsers.
This is a quick fix for the dev build, to at least unbreak
the reported case.
I need to research whether the root issue (conflict with HTTPS-E)
is still occurring, and if so the fix is not trivial: I will need
to add code to uBO to fetch and convert binary data into `data:`
URIs.
Theoretically, if a selfie is loaded from corrupted
storage resulting in a thrown exception from the
constructor, this would cause an improperly initialized
HostnameBasedDB instance and overall potentially a
broken uBO.
Related feedback:
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1543880#c7
Since https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/156
won't be fixed in next release, no need to ship
with code which will be unused, and anyways only once
the fix is worked on will it be clear exactly what needs
to be used by scriptlets to deal harmoniously with
property listener collisions.
Make sure the parser is safely compatible with old
resources format -- for those users still using
custom resources (via `userResourcesLocation`).
Prepare code for future fix to
<https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/156>:
This commit introduces a new private Map() object,
`uBOSafe`, accessible by all injected scriptlets. This
private safe can be used to store data which can be shared
with different scriptlets. The idea is for scriptlets to
use that safe to graciously deal with the need to install
multiple listeners for the same property.
Since resources are now immutable, by default they are
only compiled once each time uBO updates to a new
version. However I need a way to force a re-compiling
of the resource in the dev build. This commit adds code
to invalidate the resources selfie when forcing the
update of any filter list.
With hindsight, I revised decisions made earlier during
this development cycle:
Un-redirectable scriptlets have been removed from
/web_accessible_resources and instead put in the new
/assets/resources/scriptlets.js, which contains all
scriptlets used for web page injection purpose.
uBO will no longer fetch a remote version of built-in
resources.
Advanced setting `userResourcesLocation` will still be
honoured by uBO, and if set, will be fetched every
time at least one asset is updated.
Related issue:
- https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/651
The `behnind-the-scene` context was wrongly used to
evaluate the whitelist status of the context of tabless
network requests. The document origin must be used
instead when it's available.
Additionally, much code has been revisited for better
ES6 syntax compliance.
The goal is to be able to specify a scriptlet token
without the `.js` part at the end, because that part
is essentially redundant with the `+js` part of
the syntax.
When the next stable release is in widespread use
(to determine), scriptlet tokens will have to be
specified without the `.js` part, and with this
commit the logger will already report the normalized
version of scriptlets.
Eventually, when the migration to sans-`.js` is
complete (also to determine), the internal
normalization of the token will be removed and this
will become official syntax.
Filter list maintainers will have to mind that
uAssets is becoming in use beyond uBO (i.e. Brave)
when skipping the `.js` part -- hopefully Brave will
go along with the change here, which is to remove a
bit of tediousness for filter list maintainers.
This is a first step, the ultimate goal is to remove
the need for resources.txt, or at least to reduce to
only hotfixes or for trivial resources targeting very
specific websites.
Most resources will become immutable, i.e. they will
be part of uBO's code base. Advantages include easier
code maintenance (jshint, syntax highlight), and to
make scriptlets more easy to code review by external
parties (for example extension store reviewers).
TODO:
- More scriptlets need to be imported before next
release.
- Need to make legacy versions of uBO use a legacy
version of resources.txt, as all the now obsolete
scriptlets will have to be removed once uBO's
next release become widespread.
- Possibly need to add code to load binary
resources so that they can be injected as
data: URI. So far it's unclear whether this is
really needed. For example, this would be needed
if a xmlhttprequest is redirected to an image
resource.
This works only for platforms supporting the return of
Promise by network listeners, i.e. only Firefox at this
point.
When filter lists are reloaded[1], there is a small
time window in which some network requests which should
have normally been blocked are not being blocked
because the static network filtering engine may not
have yet loaded all the filters in memory
This is now addressed by suspending the network request
handler when filter lists are reloaded -- again, this
works only on supported platforms.
[1] Examples: when a filter list update session
completes; when user filters change, when
adding/removing filter lists.
Related discussion:
- https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/c5do7w/
Make the element picker better reflect network filters as
parsed by the static network filtering engine. Additionally,
discard single alphanumeric character-based filters.
Related discussion:
- https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/c62irc/
Inject newly created cosmetic filters into the DOM
filterer, in order for these filters to be enforced by
the DOM filterer in subsequent dynamic DOM changes.
Related issue:
- https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/371
By default, no specific keyboard shortcut is predefined,
this will have to be assigned by the user. The command
name in English is "Toggle blocking profile".
The default behavior is to toggle down according to one
of the following scenarios.
a) If script execution is disabled through the no-scripting
switch, the no-scripting switch will be locally toggled
so as to allow script execution. The page will be
automatically reloaded.
b) If script execution is not blocked but the 3rd-party
script and/or frame cells are blocked, local no-op rules
will be set so as to no longer block 3rd-party scripts
and/or frames. The page will be automatically reloaded.
Given this, it may take more than one toggle down command
to reach the lowest blocking profile, which is one where
JavaScript execution is not blocked and 3rd-party scripts
and frames resources block rules, if any, are bypassed
with local no-op rules.
TODO: At this point, I haven't yet decided whether
toggling from the lowest profile should restore the
original highest blocking profile.
Related discussion:
- https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/c5do7w/
Fixed:
- Expect the differ can return the first input as is when
there is no difference between the two items.
- Better deal with extraneous whitespaces in `srcset`
The purpose is to avoid having to iterate through
all input nodes at each operator implementation
level. The `transpose` method deals with only one
input node, and the iteration is performed by the
main procedural filtering entry points.
Additionally:
- Add `:spath` to HTML filtering
- Rename `:watch-attrs` to `:watch-attr`
- `:watch=attrs` is deprecated and will be kept around
until it is safe to remove it completely
Where `x` is the minimal text length of the subject
DOM element. DOM elements whose text length is
greater than or equal to `x` will be selected.
The original rationale for such procedural cosmetic
operator[1] is to be able to remove inline script
elements according to a minimum text length using
HTML filtering.
[1] As a result of internal discussion with filter
list maintainers @ uAssets.
- Remove HNTrieContainer class from global context by
storing it as a property of µBlock.
- Use block scope to isolate HNTrie-related constants
from global context.
- Prevent filters which are pure IP address from
being stored in an HNTrie instance -- as this
could cause false positives.
The bidirectional trie allows storing the right
and left parts of a string into a trie given a
pivot position.
Releated issue:
- https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/528
Additionally, the mandatory token-at-index-0 rule
for FilterPlainHnAnchored has been lifted, thus
allowing the engine to pick a potentially better token
at any position in the filter string.
***
TODO: Eventually rename `strie.js` to `biditrie.js`.
TODO: Fix dump() method, it currently only show the
right-hand side of a filter string.
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.
