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/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/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/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.
Related issue:
- https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/409
By default `indexedDB` is used in Firefox for purpose of cache storage
backend.
This commit allows to force the use of `browser.storage.local` instead
as cache storage backend. For this to happen, set `cacheStorageAPI` to
`browser.storage.local` in advanced settings.
Additionally, should `indexedDB` not be available for whatever reason,
uBO will automatically fallback to `browser.storage.local`.
Performance-related work: the logger data has been decoupled
from the DOM -- inspired from CodeMirror's way of efficiently
handling large amout of text data.
This decoupling now makes the logger highly efficient CPU- and
memory-wise, and open the way to more possibilities.
Ability to configure some aspect of the logger behavior and
visuals:
- The hard-coded limit of 5000 entries has been
removed and is now replaced with a variety of
user-configurable settings to enforce the discarding of
logger entries.
- Some columns in the logger output can now be hidden.
The filter list look-up feature has been merged into the
existing overlay dialog used to create URL rules or static
filters, as an entry in a new "Details" pane.
Other issues addressed during refactoring:
- https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/280
- https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/1999
The minimum version supported on Firefox has been bumped
up to 55.0.
Related issues:
- https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/372
- https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/93
A new advanced settings has been added: `autoCommentFilterTemplate`.
Default value is `{{date}} {{origin}}`.
Placeholders are identified by `{{...}}`. There are currently
only three placeholders supported:
- `{{date}}`: will be replaced with current date
- `{{time}}`: will be replaced with current time
- `{{origin}}`: will be replaced with site information on which
the filter(s) was created
If no placeholder is found in `autoCommentFilterTemplate`, this
will disable auto-commenting. So one can use `-` to disable
auto-commenting.
Additionally, if auto-commenting is enabled, uBO will not emit a
comment if an emitted comment would be a duplicate of the last
one found in the user filter list.
<https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/3436>: a new per-site switch
has been added, no-scripting, which purpose is to wholly disable/enable
javascript for a given site. This new switch has precedence over all
other ways javascript can be disabled, including precedence over dynamic
filtering rules.
The popup panel will report the number of script resources which have
been seen by uBO for the current page. There is a minor inaccuracy to
be fixed regarding the count, and which fix requires to extend request
journaling.
<https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/308>: the `noscript` tags will
now be respected when the new no-scripting switch is in effect on a given
site.
A default setting has been added to the _Settings_ pane to
disable/enable globally the new no-script switch, such that one can
work in default-deny mode regarding javascript execution.
<https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/155>: a new
hidden setting, `requestJournalProcessPeriod`, has been added to
allow controlling the delay before uBO internally process it's
network request journal queue. Default to 1000 (milliseconds).
- collate together specific filters with same base domain
- replace string-based hash to integer-based hash
- revisit code to benefit from ES6-specific syntax
- Default to being detached
- Default to "Current tab"
- Append current tab title to "Current tab" entry
- Avoid iterating through all tabs when no change
A new filtering class has been created: "static extended filtering".
This new class is an umbrella class for more specialized filtering
engines:
- Cosmetic filtering
- Scriptlet filtering
- HTML filtering
HTML filtering is available only on platforms which support modifying
the response body on the fly, so only Firefox 57+ at the moment.
With the ability to modify the response body, HTML filtering has
been introduced: removing elements from the DOM before the source
data has been parsed by the browser.
A consequence of HTML filtering ability is to bring back script tag
filtering feature.
* refactoring assets management code
* finalizing refactoring of assets management
* various code review of new assets management code
* fix#2281
* fix#1961
* fix#1293
* fix#1275
* fix update scheduler timing logic
* forward compatibility (to be removed once 1.11+ is widespread)
* more codereview; give admins ability to specify own assets.json
* "assetKey" is more accurate than "path"
* fix group count update when building dom incrementally
* reorganize content (order, added URLs, etc.)
* ability to customize updater through advanced settings
* better spinner icon
vAPI.sessionId - random ID generated every time when a page loads.
Having the dialog in an iframe lowers the chance of interference with the
styling of the page, also avoids using innerHTML (AMO complaint).
