Also added additional safeguard against sticky unprocessed-request
status: all unprocessed-request statuses will be cleared after a
minute elapsed following intialization. The idea is that if the
user hasn't care to force a reload of the page, then it's assumed
to be by choice and uBO should stop informing about the status.
uBO will now verify that at least one unprocessed network requests
at launch should have been blocked in order to warn users of
unprocessed network requests through the `!` toolbar icon badge.
For example, with default filter lists, there is nothing to block
on `wikipedia.org`, and hence in this case it's not useful to
present the user with the `!` badge.
Therefore uBO will not show the badge *only* when at least one
unprocessed network requests should have been blocked had uBO been
ready when it was fired by the browser.
Related commit:
- https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/commit/769b8da664be
Related feedback:
- 769b8da664 (commitcomment-104695781)
The incomplete filtering status of a given tab at browser launch
will be carried over visually as a yellowish `!` badge until the
web page in the tab is force reloaded, navigated away, or closed.
The purpose is to make it obvious to end users that a web page
has not been filtered properly and to avoid issue reports
related to this.
It is expected that Firefox should never be affected by cases of
yellowish badge -- that is unless the setting "Suspend network
activity [...]" has been disabled, in which case the new behavior
will also be useful to those who disabled the setting.
Related discussion:
- https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/discussions/16939
Until uBO's filtering engines are properly initialized, there will
be a distinct toolbar icon to help users understand that uBO may
not be fully initialized when a webpage is loaded -- often the
cause of improper filtering of trackers/ads at browser launch.
Related issue:
- https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/1861
The "exceptor" feature has been rewritten, with the following
changes as a result:
- The excepted filters cease to exist when closing the logger
- It's now possible to temporary except network filters
When toggling on/off a temporary exception, filter lists are now
fully reloaded. This simplified managing temporary exceptions, and
made it easy to implement temporary exception for network filters,
but this also means there might be a perceptible delay when
adding/removing temporary exceptions. At this point I consider
this an acceptable side-effect just to bring the ability to easily
create temporary exception for network filters, while this
simplified the existing temporary exception code throughout.
Related discussion:
- a0a9497b4a (commitcomment-62560291)
The new setting, when disabled (enabled by default), allows a user
to prevent uBO from waiting for all filter lists to be loaded
before allowing network activity at launch. The setting is enabled
by default, meaning uBO waits for all filter lists to be loaded in
memory before unsuspending network activity. Some users may find
this behavior undesirable, hence the new setting.
This gives the option to potentially speed up page load at launch,
at the cost of potentially not properly filtering network requests
as per filter lists/rules.
For platforms not supporting the suspension of network activity,
the setting will merely prevent whatever mechanism exists on the
platform to mitigate improper filtering of network requests at
launch. For example, in Chromium-based browsers, unchecking the
new setting will prevent the browser from re-loading tabs for
which there was network activity while in "suspended" state at
launch.
Raymond Hill