Related issue:
- https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/1744
A new context menu entry, "Block element in frame...", will
be present when right-clicking on a frame element. When
this entry is clicked, uBO's element picker will be
launched from within the embedded frame and function the
same way as when launched from within the page.
New filter options
==================
Strict partyness: `1P`, `3P`
----------------------------
The current options 1p/3p are meant to "weakly" match partyness, i.e. a
network request is considered 1st-party to its context as long as both the
context and the request share the same base domain.
The new partyness options are meant to check for strict partyness, i.e. a
network request will be considered 1st-party if and only if both the context
and the request share the same hostname.
For examples:
- context: `www.example.org`
- request: `www.example.org`
- `1p`: yes, `1P`: yes
- `3p`: no, `3P`: no
- context: `www.example.org`
- request: `subdomain.example.org`
- `1p`: yes, `1P`: no
- `3p`: no, `3P`: yes
- context: `www.example.org`
- request: `www.example.com`
- `1p`: no, `1P`: no
- `3p`: yes, `3P`: yes
The strict partyness options will be visually emphasized in the editor so as
to prevent mistakenly using `1P` or `3P` where weak partyness is meant to be
used.
Filter on response headers: `header=`
-------------------------------------
Currently experimental and under evaluation. Disabled by default, enable by
toggling `filterOnHeaders` to `true` in advanced settings.
Ability to filter network requests according to whether a specific response
header is present and whether it matches or does not match a specific value.
For example:
*$1p,3P,script,header=via:1\.1\s+google
The above filter is meant to block network requests which fullfill all the
following conditions:
- is weakly 1st-party to the context
- is not strictly 1st-party to the context
- is of type `script`
- has a response HTTP header named `via`, which value matches the regular
expression `1\.1\s+google`.
The matches are always performed in a case-insensitive manner.
The header value is assumed to be a literal regular expression, except for
the following special characters:
- to anchor to start of string, use leading `|`, not `^`
- to anchor to end of string, use trailing `|`, not `$`
- to invert the test, use a leading `!`
To block a network request if it merely contains a specific HTTP header is
just a matter of specifying the header name without a header value:
*$1p,3P,script,header=via
Generic exception filters can be used to disable specific block `header=`
filters, i.e. `@@*$1p,3P,script,header` will override the block `header=`
filters given as example above.
Dynamic filtering's `allow` rules override block `headers=` filters.
Important: It is key that filter authors use as many narrowing filter options
as possible when using the `header=` option, and the `header=` option should
be used ONLY when other filter options are not sufficient.
More documentation justifying the purpose of `header=` option will be
provided eventually if ever it is decided to move it from experimental to
stable status.
To be decided: to restrict usage of this filter option to only uBO's own
filter lists or "My filters".
Changes
=======
Fine tuning `queryprune=`
-------------------------
The following changes have been implemented:
The special value `*` (i.e. `queryprune=*`) means "remove all query
parameters".
If the `queryprune=` value is made only of alphanumeric characters
(including `_`), the value will be internally converted to regex equivalent
`^value=`. This ensures a better future compatibility with AdGuard's
`removeparam=`.
If the `queryprune=` value starts with `!`, the test will be inverted. This
can be used to remove all query parameters EXCEPT those who match the
specified value.
Other
-----
The legacy code to test for spurious CSP reports has been removed. This
is no longer an issue ever since uBO redirects to local resources through
web accessible resources.
Notes
=====
The following new and recently added filter options are not compatible with
Chromium's manifest v3 changes:
- `queryprune=`
- `1P`
- `3P`
- `header=`
Notably, add clickable link to open the widget
in its own tab. Also, allows the URL to be text-
selected so that it becomes possible to use the
selection in a browser contextual menu's "Open
in a new tab" option.
Additionally, add a button in the About pane
to launch benchmark sessions. The button will
be available only when advanced setting
`benchmarkDatasetURL` is set and pointing to
a valid dataset.
This allows to bring in all the benefits of
syntax highlighting and enhanced editing
features in the element picker, like auto-
completion, etc.
This is also a necessary step to possibly solve
the following issue:
- https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/2035
Additionally, incrementally improved the behavior
of uBO's custom CodeMirror static filtering syntax
mode when double-clicking somewhere in a static
extended filter:
- on a class/id string will cause the whole
class/id string to be selected, including the
prepending `.`/`#`.
- somewhere in a hostname/entity will cause all
the labels from the cursor position to the
right-most label to be selected (subject to
change/fine-tune as per feedback of filter
list maintainers).
Related feedback:
- https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/1134#issuecomment-679421316
The redirectable resource has been renamed
`click2load.html`, so as to avoid uses of dash
characters and to also allow for future different
click-to-load resources.
Additionally, as a requirement to support click-to-load
feature, redirected resources will from now on no
longer be collapsed.
Related issues:
- https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/2688
- https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/3619
- https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/1899
This new feature should considered in its draft
stage and it needs to be fine-tuned as per
feedback.
Important: Only embedded frames can be converted
into click-to-load widgets, as only these can be
properly shieded from access by page content.
Examples of usage:
||youtube.com/embed/$3p,frame,redirect=clicktoload
||scribd.com/embeds/$3p,frame,redirect=clicktoload
||player.vimeo.com/video/$3p,frame,redirect=clicktoload
Related feedback:
- https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/401#issuecomment-703075797
Name: `uiTheme`
Default: `unset`
Values:
- `unset`: uBO will pick the theme according to
browser's `prefers-color-scheme`
- `light`: force light scheme
- `dark`: force dark theme
This advanced setting is not to be documented yet as
it has not been decided this is a long term solution.
- Added values for dark mode
- Using the photon colors and reviewing material design - Put this together.
- Correct fieldset-header-ink
- Removed color variables already listed.
- Removal of !important and revert to some already approved colours.
Signed-off-by: Raymond Hill <rhill@raymondhill.net>
Double-cliking on a URL will cause the whole URL to be
selected, thus making it easier to navigate to this
URL (through your browser "Open in new tab" entry in
contextual menu).
Unrecognized scriptlet names will be highlighted so as
to warn that the filter is not going to be effective.
Related issue:
- https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/763
Changes:
From now on, uBO will allow click-to-subscribe on only
a few select domains, currently:
- https://filterlists.com/
- https://github.com/
- https://github.io/
More domains can be added if and only the demonstration
is made that more than a marginal number of filter lists
can be subscribed from those domains.
The browser alert box is no longer used to confirm
subscription to a filter list. Instead, the asset
viewer has been expanded to serve that purpose. This
way, users can peruse at the content of a filter list
before subscribing to it.
Further iterating on the work done in following commit:
- 1268f0ae43
This commit adds a new widget to the element picker to
control the depth of a cosmetic filter selector. The
new widget is essentially just another way of selecting
the depth, which is still controllable through picking
one of the cosmetic filters in the list of candidates.
Related issue:
- https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/851
The ctrl key is no longer used to adjust specificity of
a candidate filter.
A new widget has been added to adjust the specificity of
a candidate filter to various level. The widget will be
visible as long as the candidate filter matches one entry
in the list of suggested candidate cosmetic filters.
Related issue:
- https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/1226
Related commit:
- 9eb455ab5e
In the previous commit, the element picker dialog was
isolated from the page content. This commit is to also
isolate the svg layers from the page content.
With this commit, there is no longer a need for an anonymous
iframe and the isolated world iframe is now directly
embedded in the page.
As a result, pages are now unable to interfere with any
of the element picker user interface. Pages can now only
see an iframe, but are unable to see the content of that
iframe. The styles applied to the iframe are from a user
stylesheet, so as to ensure pages can't override the
iframe's style properties set by uBO.
Added a dotted box around found text occurrences,
as just pale yellow to highlight the text is not
enough to visually distinguish from surrounding text.
Iterating through found text occurrences will now
ensure they are vertically positioned in the middle
of the editor.
Code review following latest changes.
Also, move the input field to the left so that it
renders properly on smaller displays and does not
jump around when the result position/count numbers
change.
This also makes it easier to add more functionality
to the editor's toolbar in the future.
Before this commit, CodeMirror's add-on for search occurrences
was limited to find at most 1000 first occurrences, because of
performance considerations.
This commit removes this low limit by having the search
occurrences done in a dedicated worker. The limit is now
time-based, and highly unlikely to ever be hit under normal
condition.
With this change, all search occurrences are gathered,
and as a result:
- All occurrences are reported in the scrollbar instead of
just the 1,000 first
- The total count of all occurrences is now reported, instead
of capping at "1000+".
- The current occurrence rank at the cursor or selection
position is now reported -- this was not possible to report
this before.
The number of occurrences is line-based, it's not useful to
report finer-grained occurences in uBO.
Related issue:
- https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/1092
As a result of earlier redesign, the magnifier ended
up being too small. The size of the magnifier will now
be dependent on the default font size instead of the
parent font size.
Related issue:
- https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/1134
CodeMirror's code folding reference:
- https://codemirror.net/doc/manual.html#addon_foldcode
This commit adds support for code-folding to the filter
list editor/viewer.
The following blocks of code are foldable by clicking the
corresponding marker in the gutter:
- !#if/#endif blocks
- !#include blocks
Addtionally, the following changes:
- The `!#include` line is now preserved when importing a
sublist
- The `!#if` directives will be syntax-colored according
to whether they evaluate to true or false on the current
platform
- Double-clicking on a foldable line in the gutter will
select the content of the foldable block
- Minor visual improvement to matching brackets
