Dashboard: 3rd-party Filters Tab

[ozar]

The 3rd-party filters tab in the uBlock Dashboard is starting to become rather long in size and when using custom filters, one has to scroll down past a large number of "Regional, languages" filters to see their "Custom" filters information.

Is there some feasible method that wouldn't be too difficult to implement for collapsing each of the filter categories? If not each of them, perhaps the "Regions,languages" category could be collapsed then re-opened by end users as needed, or maybe there is some other way to better organize the options on this tab.

Thanks for any consideration.

[elyrly]

The overall feel of the 3rd-party filter tab is not overbearing and simple to navigate. I don't see the necessity to implement a collapsible list but i maybe wrong.

[gorhill]

What blocks me from implementing this trivial fix is that I can't find a localStorage (or equivalent) available for the page on Firefox, like there is on Chromium. I do not want to add user settings just for this trivial local UI feature, and using localStorage make this possible. But there is no such local storage available for an extension on Firefox.

[Deathamns]

@gorhill While you can't use localStorage on chrome: pages, you can use the localStorage of any other page. Like this:

var ls = Services.domStorageManager.getLocalStorageForPrincipal(Services.scriptSecurityManager.getCodebasePrincipal(Services.io.newURI("http://µBlock", null, null)), '');

[gorhill]

@Deathamns So then I guess it's a matter of having a vAPI method to return "the localStorage object of the extension"?

[Deathamns]

@gorhill Yeah.

[gorhill]

For Firefox, Safari, this will be supported when #1010, #1011 are resolved.

[ozar]

Just noticed the dashes next to each filter category and gave them a try and they seem to be collapsing/working perfectly. Thank you for the filters page enhancement.