Related issue:
- https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/1692
The ids/classes from html/body elements will leave out
looking up lowly generic cosmetic filters made of a single
identifier.
This does not absolutely guarantee that html/body elements
will never be targeted, but it should greatly mitigate the
probability that this erroneously happens.
Related issue:
- https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/3212
The element picker will now properly work on sites where
cosmetic filtering is disabled, but will not allow the
creation of cosmetic filters when specific cosmetic filters
are not meant to be enforced in the current page.
When specific cosmetic filters are not meant to be enforced,
the element picker will still allow the creation of network
filters, that is unless the current page is trusted, in which
case using the element picker is pointless.
The procedural cosmetic filtering code has been split from
the content script code injected unconditionally and will
from now on be injected only when it is needed, i.e. when
there are procedural cosmetic filters to enforce.
The motivation for this is:
https://www.debugbear.com/blog/2020-chrome-extension-performance-report#what-can-extension-developers-do-to-keep-their-extensions-fast
Though uBO's content script injected unconditionally in all
pages/frames is relatively small, I still wanted to further
reduce the amount of content script code injected
unconditionally: The procedural cosmetic filtering code
represents roughly 14KB of code the browser won't have to
parse/execute unconditionally unless there exists procedural
cosmetic filters to enforce for a page or frame.
At the time the above article was published, the total
size of unconditional content scripts injected by uBO was
~101 KB, while after this commit, the total size will be
~57 KB (keeping in mind uBO does not minify and does not
remove comments from its JavaScript code).
Additionally, some refactoring on how user stylesheets are
injected so as to ensure that `:style`-based procedural
filters which are essentially declarative are injected
earlier along with plain, non-procedural cosmetic filters.
Content scripts can't properly look up effective context
for sandboxed frames. This commit add ability to extract
effective context from already existing store of frames
used for each tab.
`about:srcdoc` frames are their own origin, trying to
use the origin of the parent context causes an
exception to be thrown when accessing location.href.
Injecting declarative CSS `:style()` selector could cause
the instatiation of the procedural filterer, even when
there was no actual procedural cosmetic filter to
enforce.
This commit ensure that the procedural cosmetic filterer
is instantiated only when there are actual procedural
filters to enforce.
The pseudo user styles code served only browsers based
on Chromium 65 and earlier -- Chromium 66 supports
native user styles and was first released more than two
years ago.
In Chromium-based browsers, the pseudo user styles code
is being unconditionally injected in every page/frame
just in case the browser is version 65 or earlier.
Removing pseudo user styles reduce uBO's main content
script in Chromium-based browsers by more than 20K.
Related thread:
- https://github.com/NanoAdblocker/NanoCore/issues/348#issuecomment-653646507
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New procedural cosmetic operator: `:remove()`
Related issue:
- https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/2252
The purpose is to outright remove elements from the
DOM tree. Since `:remove()` is an "action" operator,
it must only be used as a trailing operator (just
like the `:style()` operator).
AdGuard's cosmetic filter syntax `{ remove: true; }`
will be converted to uBO's `:remove()` operator
internally.
***
New procedural cosmetic operator: `:upward(...)`
The purpose is to lookup an ancestor element.
When used with an integer argument, it is synonym of
`:nth-ancestor()`, which will be deprecated and which
will no longer be supported once no longer used in
mainstream filter lists.
Filter lists maintainers must only use `:upward(int)`
instead of `:nth-ancestor(int)` once the new operator
become available in all stable releases of uBO.
`:upward()` can also accept a CSS selector as argument,
in which case the nearest ancestor which matches the
CSS selector will be selected.
Related issue:
- https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/756
This is the code used to find out the count values
displayed as badge on the cosmetic filtering and
scripting per-site switches in the popup panel.
The issue is that document.querySelector*() -- used to
find out the number of hidden elements -- is unduly
expensive on large DOM.
The changes in this commit have focused on avoiding the
use of document.querySelector*() as much as possible.
Also, the results are cached for reuse unless DOM
mutations are detected.
Related issue:
- https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/127
Procedural cosmetic exception filters were the
last class of cosmetic exception filters not
being reported in the logger; this commit fixes
this.
Additionally, ensure that a single DOM listener
can't prevent other listeners from being
processed by throwing an exception. Such approach
would have prevented regression leading to
emergency release 1.22.4:
- https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases/tag/1.22.4
In rare circumstances, it's possible the content
script lose access to the background page, best
to check against this to avoid spurious console
errors.
No need to store mouse coordinates in background
page, thus no need to post mouse coordinates
information for every click.
Rename/group element picker arguments and popup
arguments separately.
The purpose is to avoid having to iterate through
all input nodes at each operator implementation
level. The `transpose` method deals with only one
input node, and the iteration is performed by the
main procedural filtering entry points.
Additionally:
- Add `:spath` to HTML filtering
- Rename `:watch-attrs` to `:watch-attr`
- `:watch=attrs` is deprecated and will be kept around
until it is safe to remove it completely
Where `x` is the minimal text length of the subject
DOM element. DOM elements whose text length is
greater than or equal to `x` will be selected.
The original rationale for such procedural cosmetic
operator[1] is to be able to remove inline script
elements according to a minimum text length using
HTML filtering.
[1] As a result of internal discussion with filter
list maintainers @ uAssets.
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.
Raymond Hill