Related issue:
- https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/899
browser.storage.local is now used to store non-critical
local settings.
These settings are all collated under the key
`localStorage`, and vAPI.localStorage is an API to
handle access to these values stored under this key.
vAPI.localStorage.getItem() is still synchronous but
its purpose is to return internally cached values --
this minimizes code changes throughout uBO.
This is to fix the rendering of the menu entry in
Firefox Fenix, which displays both the icon title
and badge text as a menu entry:
Before the fix:
uBlock Origin (76) 76
After the fix:
uBlock Origin 76
The badge text will still be part of the icon title
when the icon badge is disabled by the user or when
the platform does not supprt browserAction.setIcon()
(as is the case on current Firefox for Android).
Advanced setting `cnameAliasList` has been removed.
New advanced settings:
cnameUncloak:
Boolean
Default value:
true
Description:
Whether to CNAME-uncloak hostnames.
cnameIgnoreExceptions:
Boolean
Default value:
true
Description:
Whether to bypass the uncloaking of network requests
which were excepted by filters/rules. This is
necessary so as to avoid undue breakage by having
exception filters being rendered useless as a result
of CNAME-uncloaking.
For example, `google-analytics.com` uncloaks to
`www-google-analytics.l.google.com` and both hostnames
appear in Peter Lowe's list, which means exception
filters for `google-analytics.com` (to fix site
breakage) would be rendered useless as the uncloaking
would cause the network request to be ultimately
blocked.
Related issue:
- https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/780
Related commit:
- https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/commit/3a564c199260
This adds two new advanced settings:
- cnameIgnoreRootDocument
- Default to `true`
- Tells uBO to skip CNAME-lookup for root document.
- cnameReplayFullURL
- Default to `false`
- Tells uBO whether to replay the whole URL or just
the origin part of it.
Replaying only the origin part is meant to lower
undue breakage and improve performance by avoiding
repeating the pattern-matching of the whole URL --
which pattern-matching was most likely already
accomplished with the original request.
This commit is meant to explore enabling CNAME-lookup
by default for the next stable release while:
- Eliminating a development burden by removing the
need to create a new filtering syntax to deal with
undesirable CNAME-cloaked hostnames
- Eliminating a filter list maintainer burden by
removing the need to find/deal with all base
domains which engage in undesirable CNAME-cloaked
hostnames
The hope is that the approach implemented in this
commit should require at most a few unbreak rules
with no further need for special filtering syntax
or filter list maintance efforts.
This fixes the ability to block when a hostname
had to be cname-resolved the first time it was
encountered. The result being cached allowed
the subsequent requests to be correctly blockable.
Related issue:
- https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/780
- Handle DNS lookup failure
- Skip DNS lookup for non network-based URLs
- Benchmark code to be able to provide an estimate
based on objective measurements regarding added
overhead when DNS lookup is enabled
(quick answer: a complete non-issue)
Related issue:
- https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/780
New webext permission added: `dns`, which purpose is
to allow an extension to fetch the DNS record of
specific hostnames, reference documentation:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/dns
The webext API `dns` is available in Firefox 60+ only.
The new API will enable uBO to "uncloak" the actual
hostname used in network requests. The ability is
currently disabled by default for now -- this is only
a first commit related to the above issue to allow
advanced users to immediately use the new ability.
Four advanced settings have been created to control the
uncloaking of actual hostnames:
cnameAliasList: a space-separated list of hostnames.
Default value: unset => empty list.
Special value: * => all hostnames.
A space-separated list of hostnames => this tells uBO
to "uncloak" the hostnames in the list will.
cnameIgnoreList: a space-separated list of hostnames.
Default value: unset => empty list.
Special value: * => all hostnames.
A space-separated list of hostnames => this tells uBO
to NOT re-run the network request through uBO's
filtering engine with the CNAME hostname. This is
useful to exclude commonly used actual hostnames
from being re-run through uBO's filtering engine, so
as to avoid pointless overhead.
cnameIgnore1stParty: boolean.
Default value: true.
Whether uBO should ignore to re-run a network request
through the filtering engine when the CNAME hostname
is 1st-party to the alias hostname.
cnameMaxTTL: number of minutes.
Default value: 120.
This tells uBO to clear its CNAME cache after the
specified time. For efficiency purpose, uBO will
cache alias=>CNAME associations for reuse so as
to reduce calls to `browser.dns.resolve`. All the
associations will be cleared after the specified time
to ensure the map does not grow too large and too
ensure uBO uses up to date CNAME information.
Related issue:
- https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/759
If for some reasons the launch code throws, uBO could
find itself in permanent suspend mode, thus preventing
web pages from loading in Firefox.
Though uBO should not have exceptions thrown during
it's initialization code, this commit will ensure
uBO complete its initialization process should it
ever happen for whatever reason.
Tabless network requests were bypassing uBO's
onBeforeRequest's listener when in suspended
mode. Suspend mode occurs during the time the
filter lists are all reloaded.
Regression from:
- 1dfdc40e09 (diff-d04c15ee6bff6a6269c6aee25a7c7522R1122)
Related commit:
- 87d0e456f1
Ensure that the code which depends on extending
`vapi-client.js` is ready to deal with
`vapi-client-extra.js` failing to load.
These spurious error messages can occur when a
extension framework API method return a
rejected Promise. In uBO the results of
browserAction methods is not used so it can be
safely discarded.
Related feedback:
- https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/d6zbqv/
For static filter `popup` filter purpose, the URL of the
embedded frame from which the popup was launched will
be used in the matching algorithm.
... from platform-independent code.
This should complete the de-chromiumification of
uBO. Next step will be to swap the content of the
`platform/chromium` and `platform/firefox`
folders so as to reflect that Firefox is the
natural platform for uBO.
Little-used code from vapi-client.js has been moved
to vapi-client-extra.js. Given that vapi-client.js
is injected in all web pages, this means less dead
code being injected in all pages.
Swathes of code in vapi-client.js was used only in
a few very specific cases, such as when the logger's
DOM inspector is opened or when the "Filter lists"
pane in the dashboard is opened -- and thus to avoid
that little used code to be loaded in every web page
unconditionally, it has been moved to its own
separate file, vapi-client.extra.js.
vapi-client-extra.js is loaded declaratively or
programmatically only where needed.
Related issue:
- https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/710
Messages from unprivileged ports (i.e. from content scripts)
are no longer relayed to message handlers which are to be
strictly used to execute privileged code.
The last remaining case of unprivileged messages which
should be converted into a privileged ones will be taken
care of when the following issue is fixed:
- https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/3497
Related feedback:
- https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/cmh910/
Additionally, the `3p` rule has been made distinct from
`3p-script`/`3p-frame` for the purpose of
"Relax blocking mode" command.
The badge color will hint at the current blocking mode.
There are four colors for the four following blocking
modes:
- JavaScript wholly disabled
- All 3rd parties blocked
- 3rd-party scripts and frames blocked
- None of the above
The default badge color will be used when JavaScript is not
wholly disabled and when there are no rules for `3p`,
`3p-script` or `3p-frame`.
A new advanced setting has been added to let the user choose
the badge colors for the various blocking modes,
`blockingProfileColors`. The value *must* be a sequence of
4 valid CSS color values that match 6 hexadecimal digits
prefixed with`#` -- anything else will be ignored.
Related Chromium issue:
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=985759
By expressly restricting JavaScript execution to only code
from the extension package, this explicitly tells code reviewer
that uBO can't execute remote code.
I also had to add `object-src 'self'`, otherwise Chromium
refused to load the extension with the following error message:
> 'content_security_policy': CSP directive 'object-src' must be specified
`object-src 'self'` is the default value.
This works only for platforms supporting the return of
Promise by network listeners, i.e. only Firefox at this
point.
When filter lists are reloaded[1], there is a small
time window in which some network requests which should
have normally been blocked are not being blocked
because the static network filtering engine may not
have yet loaded all the filters in memory
This is now addressed by suspending the network request
handler when filter lists are reloaded -- again, this
works only on supported platforms.
[1] Examples: when a filter list update session
completes; when user filters change, when
adding/removing filter lists.
Related issue:
- https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/371
By default, no specific keyboard shortcut is predefined,
this will have to be assigned by the user. The command
name in English is "Toggle blocking profile".
The default behavior is to toggle down according to one
of the following scenarios.
a) If script execution is disabled through the no-scripting
switch, the no-scripting switch will be locally toggled
so as to allow script execution. The page will be
automatically reloaded.
b) If script execution is not blocked but the 3rd-party
script and/or frame cells are blocked, local no-op rules
will be set so as to no longer block 3rd-party scripts
and/or frames. The page will be automatically reloaded.
Given this, it may take more than one toggle down command
to reach the lowest blocking profile, which is one where
JavaScript execution is not blocked and 3rd-party scripts
and frames resources block rules, if any, are bypassed
with local no-op rules.
TODO: At this point, I haven't yet decided whether
toggling from the lowest profile should restore the
original highest blocking profile.
Regression from:
- 62387fb87a
Repro steps were:
- Open the logger
- Navigate to `https://news.ycombinator.com/`
- Select an element using the element picker
- Click "Preview"
An attribute selector used internally by uBO to
hide targeted nodes was being reported in the
logger.
I had exceptions thrown by that code once in a while,
about the `port` object not being connected; possibly
occurs only when using dev tools with breakpoints
in uBO's code. Even if this can be reproduced randomly
only when debugging uBO, it costs nothing to add code
in there to handle exceptions.
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/550
Related Chromium issue (I can't access it):
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=957866
Findings so far: affects browsers based on Chromium 74.
I could not reproduce the issue with either Chromium 73 or
Google Chrome 75.
This commit is a mitigation: to prevent sites from using
uBO's internal WAR secret for tracking purpose. A secret
can be used for at most one second, after which a new secret
is generated.
The original issue related to the implementation of
secret-gated web accessible resources is:
- https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/2823
Related issue:
- https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/548
The fix applies only to Chromium-based browsers -- a
`X-DNS-Prefetch-Control` header[1] will be unconditionally
injected when uBO's "Disable pre-fetching" setting is
enabled (it is by default).
This is a mitigation, this does not completely fix the issue
of the setting "Disable pre-fetching" being disregarded on
Chromium-based browsers when sites use
`preconnect`/`preload`.
[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/X-DNS-Prefetch-Control
Related issue:
- https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/416
The Chromium version of uBO has declared `unlimitedStorage` since the
extension was first published in 2014. Declaring this permission in
Firefox brings uBO inline with the Chromium version. I suspect some
reported errors could be caused by IndexedDB eviction due to the lack
of `unlimitedStorage` permission.
Additionally, a timeout has been added when uBO tries to access its
indexedDB storage. It's unclear whether this will help with the
mentioned related issue though, the root cause is still to be
identified.
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`.
The motivation is to address the higher peak memory usage at launch
time with 3rd-gen HNTrie when a selfie was present.
The selfie generation prior to this change was to collect all
filtering data into a single data structure, and then to serialize
that whole structure at once into storage (using JSON.stringify).
However, HNTrie serialization requires that a large UintArray32 be
converted into a plain JS array, which itslef would be indirectly
converted into a JSON string. This was the main reason why peak
memory usage would be higher at launch from selfie, since the JSON
string would need to be wholly unserialized into JS objects, which
themselves would need to be converted into more specialized data
structures (like that Uint32Array one).
The solution to lower peak memory usage at launch is to refactor
selfie generation to allow a more piecemeal approach: each filtering
component is given the ability to serialize itself rather than to be
forced to be embedded in the master selfie. With this approach, the
HNTrie buffer can now serialize to its own storage by converting the
buffer data directly into a string which can be directly sent to
storage. This avoiding expensive intermediate steps such as
converting into a JS array and then to a JSON string.
As part of the refactoring, there was also opportunistic code
upgrade to ES6 and Promise (eventually all of uBO's code will be
proper ES6).
Additionally, the polyfill to bring getBytesInUse() to Firefox has
been revisited to replace the rather expensive previous
implementation with an implementation with virtually no overhead.
The environment flavor is used to by uBO to for self-configuration.
For users with spoofed UA at the `about:config` level, this might
cause uBO to misconfigure itself. Avoid UA and strictly rely on
browserInfo() for looking up environment parameters.
Related issue:
- https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/407
Both flavors will be stitched together into a single
`vapi-qebrequest.js` file.
The decision of which flavor to use will be made at runtime,
according to the browser environment.
Those spurious disconnections have been observed to occur at
uBO's launch time.
Related issue:
- https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/403
I have observed that this fixes an issue observed on Firefox 64
(current stable).
The reported Waterfox issue *may* be fixed as a result. If not,
the issue he still considered fixed as Waterfox is not
officially supported.
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.
Raymond Hill