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
This is a first step, the ultimate goal is to remove
the need for resources.txt, or at least to reduce to
only hotfixes or for trivial resources targeting very
specific websites.
Most resources will become immutable, i.e. they will
be part of uBO's code base. Advantages include easier
code maintenance (jshint, syntax highlight), and to
make scriptlets more easy to code review by external
parties (for example extension store reviewers).
TODO:
- More scriptlets need to be imported before next
release.
- Need to make legacy versions of uBO use a legacy
version of resources.txt, as all the now obsolete
scriptlets will have to be removed once uBO's
next release become widespread.
- Possibly need to add code to load binary
resources so that they can be injected as
data: URI. So far it's unclear whether this is
really needed. For example, this would be needed
if a xmlhttprequest is redirected to an image
resource.
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.
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.
commit ab2b328cf1360a751fa1c58b8521f907eeb1ec50
Author: Raymond Hill <rhill@raymondhill.net>
Date: Thu Apr 12 12:08:30 2018 -0400
fix#3588
commit c4ae7638dfa5a5c7ddec2f9dd2d2988450082542
Author: Raymond Hill <rhill@raymondhill.net>
Date: Thu Apr 12 09:08:56 2018 -0400
detect user stylesheets support from content scripts (#3588)
Raymond Hill