uBlock 0.9.4.0 is here.

We're excited to bring you uBlock 0.9.4.0 today. Here are just some highlights of what's new:

• Cosmetic filtered elements are now logged in the request logger!
• Safari: introducing support for inline-script blocking.
• Many reliability and coverage fixes/improvements.
• Toolbar badge performance improvements.
• Popup behavior refinements.

... that is in addition to a number of smaller bug fixes and improvements driven by your reports — thank you. For the curious, here's a full list of changes since 0.9.3.5.

We hope you'll enjoy this release of uBlock!

https://chrismatic.io/ublock/

We're absolutely thrilled to bring you uBlock 0.9.3.5!

This release includes many improvements to uBlock — the areas of changes include (but are not limited to):

• UI, icons, and color scheme refinement.
• Reliability improvements for domain-based blocking.
• Stability enhancements for Firefox.
• Cosmetic filtering right from Firefox's Web Inspector.

If you're curious, here's a list of all the commits between 0.9.3.0 and this release.

Notable changes

User interface refinements

From the typography to the icons, layout, and color scheme, you'll find refinements to uBlock's UI in this release that make it more pleasant and easier to use.

We've reengineered the method by which we render the icons, so they're rendered perfectly even if your browser has web fonts disabled.

Firefox reliability

@AlexVallat, the talented developer on our team responsible for fine-tuning uBlock for Firefox, has done a lot of work to improve the reliability and consistency of uBlock on Firefox. For example, uBlock now activates without needing a browser restart, and uBlock is more accurate at determining the origin domain for requests.

Bonus: you can now add element hiding rules right from Web Inspector in Firefox! Just right click on an element while in the inspector.

Stress-free navigation

uBlock 0.9.3.5 will no longer stop you from navigating to websites. Instead, uBlock will specifically only block requests made subsequently after loading the page (such as images, scripts, etc.).

A lot more

Try out uBlock 0.9.3.5 for yourself! We hope (and think) you'll love it — we welcome your feedback and questions as always.

Links:

uBlock homepage    

The uBlock project's main development responsibilities have been transferred to Chris Aljoudi (chrisaljoudi on GitHub).

Please consider donating to keep development possible:

uBlock is still free and open-source, and will always be free and open-source. This does not change uBlock's manifesto or values in any way.

New

• Site-based switches
  • A switch to block all popups for a given site, regardless of filters
  • A switch to disable strict blocking (new mode, enabled by default)
    • This used to be supported by ABP a long-time ago: "full domain blocking"

Closed as fixed:

Firefox

• Number of items in badge not updated when newtab url is about:blank

Firefox Mobile

• Closing all tabs confuses ublock

Core

• Can't find a way to allow popups
• External script not blocked
  • This was a core issue but problem was manifesting only on Firefox.
• Tooltip padding
• CHN: EasyList China will cause the firefox hanging on some website
• 'undefined' shows up in Dynamic filtering pane when popup blocker is enabled and a popup is blocked
• The status of adblock warning removal list won't be stored in the backup file
• Add lists from https://adblockplus.org/en/subscriptions
• Selected domains no longer appears in the popup
• Whitelist wildcard not working when url contains # as wildcard
• Ability to blanket-block popups for a given site
  • See "site-based switches" above
• Show "3rd-party filters list" info when category is collapsed
• Chrome-scheme not showing up in popup
• Unable to block browser take-over scripts in malware/phishing sites, or at least block redirects to such sites
  • See "site-based switches" above
  • Re. Strict Blocking - Should we do Domain blocking based on URL part itself?
• Color for domains with both blocked and unblocked content is too similar
• Problem with “element hiding” filters

Closed as fixed:

• Selected domains no longer appears in the popup
  • EasyList FR was breaking uBlock, because of that weird filter: ||^$third-party, which makes no sense as per ABP filter syntax.

^{Reminder: Chromium (or browsers based on) still suffer from that ugly bug which causes a big chunk of memory leak each time a user opens the popup UI of an extension. Therefore, the more you use the popup UI in Chromium, the larger the memory footprint of uBlock (or any extension really) will grow. I've already seen feedback like "doesn't have a µ memory footprint at all for me. >250MB" (for µMatrix). This is important to keep this Chromium memory leak bug in mind if you make use of dynamic filtering, as this feature requires frequent access to the popup UI.}

Notes

There is a version 0.9.2.2, not released here, because I feel it's not worth the storage space. The only difference with this version is this commit. This commit made it into the Opera store version as v 0.9.2.2.

Closed as fixed

Safari

• UI is shrunk with latest update

Core

• µBlock -> uBlock.
  • In case you wonder: yes, I've decided to drop the µ in favor of u, because I have seen too much arguing about how it should be pronounced, etc.
• 0.9.2.0 is now resizing each time you open it.

Other changes

Chromium

• Various small changes to ensure Chromium passes all popup tests.
  • Due to limitations to the chrome API...
    • There is just no guarantee case 6, 7 will always work. The fix was to increase as much as possible the likelihood Chromium will succeed.
    • The only way I can make case 12 succeed on Chromium is by enabling uBlock for the behind-the-scene scope.

Core

• Various small issues with element picker related to the new feature in 0.9.2.0.