Related issues:
- https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/194
This is a first iteration, which purpose is to merely allow
uBO to load properly. Many things are known to not work,
quite probably due to the early Thunderbird support of the
WebExtensions framework.
Permission which had to be removed:
- contextMenus
Manifest entries which had to be removed:
- commands
- sidebar_action
uBO's webRequest listeners are not being called when loading a
feed item in the preview pane, *except* for resources fetched
from embedded iframes.
uBO appears to function properly when a feed item is opened in
its own tab.
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.
Squashed commit of the following:
commit 6a8473822537636ac54d5dabdb14472114bb730b
Author: Raymond Hill <rhill@raymondhill.net>
Date: Mon Aug 6 10:56:44 2018 -0400
remove remnant of snappyjs and spurious instruction
commit 9a4b709bee97d3cc2235fab602359fa5953bdb46
Author: Raymond Hill <rhill@raymondhill.net>
Date: Mon Aug 6 09:48:58 2018 -0400
make cache storage compression optionally available on all platforms
New advanced setting: `cacheStorageCompression`. Default is `false`.
commit 22ee6547f2f7c9c5aefe25dea1262a1b31612155
Author: Raymond Hill <rhill@raymondhill.net>
Date: Sun Aug 5 19:16:26 2018 -0400
remove Chromium from lz4 experiment
commit ee3e201c45afe983508f70713a2d43af74737d8d
Author: Raymond Hill <rhill@raymondhill.net>
Date: Sun Aug 5 18:52:43 2018 -0400
import lz4-block-codec.wasm library
commit 883a3118efcfd749c82356fde7134754d6ae371d
Author: Raymond Hill <rhill@raymondhill.net>
Date: Sun Aug 5 18:50:46 2018 -0400
implement storage compression through lz4-wasm [draft]
commit 48d1ccaba407de447c2cd6747dc3a90839c260a7
Merge: 8ae77e6 b34c897
Author: Raymond Hill <rhill@raymondhill.net>
Date: Sat Aug 4 08:56:51 2018 -0400
Merge branch 'master' of github.com:gorhill/uBlock into lz4
commit 8ae77e6aeeaa85af335e664c2560d2afd37288c6
Author: Raymond Hill <rhill@raymondhill.net>
Date: Wed Jul 25 18:17:45 2018 -0400
experiment with compression
When using paths, platform implementations of setIcon typically
will fetch the resource then convert to image data internally.
It is preferable for uBO to do this conversion itself as it can
be done only once at launch time.
With chromium-based browsers, using image data eliminate the
incessant network traffic to fetch browser icons as reported
in the extension's dev tool, meaning a good chunk of overhead
is eliminated.
Also, use optimal icon sizes, as of now both chromium and firefox
prefers 16px instead of 19px, and 32px instead of 38px.
Upon start-up, uBlock runs all content scripts in manifest.json using
`chrome.tabs.executeScript`. When this API is used, the value of the
last expression is automatically cloned and transferred to the
callback of `chrome.tabs.executeScript`. This is convenient if needed,
and a performance burden otherwise (the latter is the case for uBlock).
There are three content scripts that need to be checked:
- vapi.js
The last expression is often the vAPI object, and it is relatively
expensive to clone this object. This commit sets the value of the
last expression to `void 0` to solve this inefficiency.
- vapi-client.js
No action needed yet; The last expression is `vAPI.shutdown.add(...)`,
which has a void return value.
- contentscript.js
No action needed yet; The last expression is an immediately-invoked
function expression without return value.
Raymond Hill