gorhill/uBlock 0.8.5.0

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[Release notes salvaged from https://github.com/uBlock-LLC/uBlock/releases/tag/0.8.5.0]

Changes:

• Revamped dynamic filtering -- more power to the user (see some details in #433)
  • Users have the last word over what if blocked/allowed
  • Useful to:
    • Un-break web sites without having to completely turn off µBlock
    • [more examples of useful usage]
• New network request logger
  • Network requests are logged in real-time
  • The network request log is no longer a tab in the dashboard, it is its own browser tab
  • Typically you will want to detach the logger's browser tab in order to get a separate window
  • No more switch to turn on the logging of network requests
    • if a logger is opened, requests will be logged
    • if a logger is closed, requests won't be logged, and whatever was logged is flushed from memory
  • Allows µBlock to use memory more efficiently: network requests are logged if and only if they are being observed, while before they were logged unconditionally for every single tab (when logging was enabled)
  • The network request logger has been written with efficiency in mind: there is very little overhead when using it
• Reorganized dashboard:
  • The Settings tab is now the default one
  • An "I am an advanced user" setting in the Settings tab
  • The Statistics tab is gone
  • A new "My rules" tab, from where you can see/edit your dynamic filtering rules
  • The back up/restore/reset buttons have moved from the About tab to the Settings tab
• Ability to force-refresh the web page through the popup UI
  • Especially useful when using dynamic filtering, as one can check the effect of dynamic filter configuration on a page without having to quit the popup menu
  • This can sort of mitigate Chromium's memory leak since you can now refresh the page without having to quit the popup, and further keep toggling filters to see their effects on the page

Closed as fixed:

• Expand/refactor dynamic filtering
• Unable to copy paste url from statistics window
• Click to unblock temporarily a frame
• A UI to see/edit dynamic filters in the "Your filters" tab in the dashboard
• Dynamic filtering: is the ability to filter 1st-party iframe really needed?
• Support elemhide filter option

Notes:

• Keep in mind that with the new revamped dynamic filtering feature, repeated access to the popup UI of µBlock is more likely than before, and thus this means Chromium issue #441500 is becoming more and more crippling for advanced users of µBlock. Unfortunately, there is really nothing I can do.
  • Starring the issue may help, not sure.

uBlock.chromium_0.8.5.0.zip:

• MD5: 09259708b0ae029b7f0b1733b5afeb45
• SHA1: e9ca222cd3f011db71198f4133e9885a7f90956b