As was done with generic pattern-based filters, the source
string of regex-based filters is now stored into the
bidi-trie (pattern) buffer.
Additionally, added a new "dev tools" page to more
conveniently peer into uBO's internals at run time, without
having to do so from the browser's dev console -- something
which has become more difficult with the use of JS modules.
The new page can be launched from the Support pane through
the "More" button in the troubleshooting section.
The benchmark button in the About pane has been moved to this
new "dev tools" page.
The new "dev tools" page is for development purpose only,
do not open issues about it.
There are currently over 160 patterns with such pointless
trailing `*^` in uBO's filter lists, which ended up being
compiled as generic pattern filters (i.e. regex-based
internally), while the trailing `*^` accomplishes nothing
since it will always match the end of a URL ( `^` can
also match the end of URL).
This commit discards pointless trailing `*^` in patterns,
thus allowing most of those filters to be compiled as
plain pattern filters.
The syntax highlighter will reflect that a trailing
`*^` is pointless.
Rearrange logic to instantiate and add `important` filters
to the block realm when compiled lists are loaded instead
of when lists are compiled.
Additionally, removed now unused properties following
commit 68e14793cc.
Related issue:
- https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/1863
As per internal discussion with team, best to have a simpler
scriplet, and which is hard-coded to work only on a specific
set of domains -- only those seen used by BAB.
Turns out the various benchmarks show no benefits when compiling
filters whose pattern contains a single wildcard character into
specialized classes which threat the pattern as two sub-patterns,
and actually there is a slight improvement in performance as per
benchamrks when treating these patterns as generic ones.
This also fixes the following related issue:
- https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/1207
Fixed serious regression in previous dev build in applying
`csp=` filters. Reported internally by uBO team.
Promote usage of `removeparam` in code instead of `queryprune`,
which is to be deprecated.
Removed test against previously tested hostname in
FilterHostnameDict since as per various benchmark, the
test does not really help.
Remove serialization API in Node.js code as the API is now
present in SNFE itself.
All the auxiliary data structures must be fully loaded before
the data structure used as entry point is populated. The race
condition could lead to a case of the entry point data structure
being populated while the auxiliary data structures are still
unpopulated, potentially causing exceptions to be thrown at
launch when the static network filtering engine is queried.
I haven't been able to reproduce such exceptions -- but it
could happen on browsers which do not support being suspended
at launch time (i.e. chromium-based browsers).
Additionally, added convenience methods to easily
serialize/unserialize when SNFE is used as a npm package.
