uBlockO legacy download method

[gepus]

That did not make any difference.

I did test (twice).
- first with cookies disabled (Pale Moon 33.4.1, Firefox ESR 115.18.0):
blank page source code of the page incomplete
- with cookies enabled the page showed up source code of the entire page visible

If it doesn't work for you, test with a fresh profile.

[FranklinDM]

The site requires local storage for caching the data it receives from the GitHub API, mainly to avoid rate limiting issues.

[UCyborg]

I don't consider myself dedicated maintainer, so didn't sign up to put modded extension on PM add-ons site. It's pretty much uploaded on my GitHub as-is with no promises, no support, no development roadmap, nothing.

Regarding beta mark, many programs today are buggy while masquerading as stable, uBO is no exception. It inherits most issues that weren't fixed after it was abandoned by original author. I personally consider previous "stable" notably worse than this "beta". Though it was mostly because some newer code from newer version was merged while some surrounding code stayed the same. And the development history of uBO is long and convoluted and getting it in order would be a full-time job.

[andyprough]

It's pretty much uploaded on my GitHub as-is with no promises, no support, no development roadmap, nothing.

Seems to be working really well, I haven't noticed any trouble with it or any failure to block the expected things over the past 8 months of use. I don't recall reading anyone reporting any problems with it.

[UCyborg]

Sure, I was conservative about the changes. But this thing is massive and needs someone really proficient to work with. I used to patch / bug fix old games and while I've come up with some tricks that I managed to surprise myself, working with x86 disassembled code is its own kind of art, more often than not I'm stumbling in the dark when it comes to programming in general.

[andyprough]

Sure, I was conservative about the changes. But this thing is massive and needs someone really proficient to work with. I used to patch / bug fix old games and while I've come up with some tricks that I managed to surprise myself, working with x86 disassembled code is its own kind of art, more often than not I'm stumbling in the dark when it comes to programming in general.

Well, maybe MC and some of the other devs will want to have a look at it as well. Appears to me that if we are going to have adblocking on Pale Moon at all going forward, it's likely going to be some version of what you have been working on here. Your programming appears to be exactly what's been needed.

[UCyborg]

This project could definitely benefit from someone looking at it that knows their way around UXP specifically!

I'm thinking of trying to catch up on updating scriptlets at least to the point Gorhill moved things around again recently. Then changing that checkbox to not change DNS prefetching as was noted by the people here. Might just call it 1.16.6 then and get rid of experimental branch, doesn't do much more than keeping the mess in two places. Should be a good starting point for further work.

I initially just wanted uBO to not break videos on 24ur.com (which, BTW, is the most visited web site in Slovenia), but ended up doing a bit more than that.