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#152

it looks like the issues has been reopened in github, thats great. But still, I might not open a feature request because of the contributing guidelines :slight_smile: As I said before, I propose not to reject feature requests, but to make clear that there is no time to take care of by the developer.

Furthermore, to increase attention for the issue guidelines, you can put them directly in the issue form field like show here: https://github.com/nextcloud/server/issues/new
But I think its much better to keep them very short and expressive, not like in the nextcloud example.

#154

Umatrix has no interface in pop ups.

Use the logger in such case, the popup panel can be brought up from the logger. When you click on the second cell of any row, it will bring up the popup panel for the tab associated with the row.

#155

Okay I figured out how to get the interface to appear (why I deleted my post) but the site still isn’t working. It’s the deviantart download button. Is this a good place to ask about how to get particular sites to work?

#156

Give me a specific URL where you have the issue, I will see what is going on.

#157

https://hontor.deviantart.com/art/Paradise-cats-VIP-715601842

The download button on the right opens a pop up with the original size image. Some images are small enough to download the full size straight from the gallery page, but most are too large and are only available at original size through the download button.

That button does some kind of third party request but I haven’t been able to figure it out.

#158

Ok, it took me a while to figure it out, it’s something to do with Firefox pulling the image from its cache. You need to whitelist the wyciwyg-scheme scope. wyciwyg-scheme really means that Firefox is pulling the image from a sort of wyciwyg: URI (its cache I believe), and since that scope is not whitelisted by default, this was breaking pulling from the cache – that is about as much as I understand for now.

So anyway, create this rule in My rules, then persist, issue should be gone for good. I will add it to uMatrix’s default ruleset.

matrix-off: wyciwyg-scheme true

I think wyciwyg means “what you cache is what you get”.

#159

So far so good. Sweet, thanks. This has fixed some issues I was having on other pop up sites as well.

#160

I was testing uMatrix and just now I had an issue where I couldn’t log into twitter.com, even after turning off matrix filtering for all twitter.com and all per-site switches, I couldn’t figure what was going on.

Turns out that with all my testing I had enabled matrix filtering for the behind-the-scene scope, and this was causing the issue: twitter.com uses a service worker – which is requested in the behind-the-scene scope.

Once I turned off matrix filtering for behind-the-scene (including turning off all per-site switches in that special scope), I could log in fine on twitter.com in default-deny mode with only twimg.com whitelisted.

So anyway, this is just to point out that sometimes we have to look everywhere when trying to un-break a site.

#161

I would like to see a redirect path on the “uMatrix has prevented the following page from loading:” page. Currently, I copy and paste the blocked redirect link into http://redirectdetective.com/ to see the ultimate destination. Simply add the redirect path below the blocked link with an option to click directly on it. This would be a useful feature.

#162

Hi @gorhill
I use uBO and uMatrix for a while so I first want to thank you for your work!
Yesterday I noticed in the changelog that you started supporting uMatrix on Firefox for Android :slight_smile:
I have immediately installed the WebExtension and noticed the lack of a custom logo on AMO.

Since I can’t help in the code I’d like to suggest a few creations.
Thank you again.

Logo_1 / Logo_2 / Logo_3

If you are interested I can modify them for your needs of course.

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#163

why is my uMatrix dashboard gray after 10 minutes and the pages are not working anymore. even if I reload it without closing the browser. When I close the browser and open it all goes for 10 minutes.

windows 10
firefox 57

#164

Initially uMatrix worked as it should, but for the past few days clicking on the scope selector (the blue bar at the top-left) just highlights the text instead of being able to select from, say *, domain.com and www.domain.com.

Also, I fairly often find that the refresh button doesn’t always reload with the new permissions. In Windows, CTRL+R also doesn’t work, but CTRL+F5 does.

Amazing add-on, BTW. The user-interface is perfectly designed. It’s so intuitive to use, and more flexible than NoScript.

Is there anything I can try to get the scope selector working?

Thanks :slight_smile:

#165

The highlighted text is the current scope – there is no more dropdown list. See release notes.

When there is such issue, try holding the shift key down when clicking reload, sometimes it may happen the browser’s cached responses are causinf the webRequest API to be skipped.

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#166

FF 57: Even if I disable the default “Block all hyperlink auditing attempts” , " network-prefetch " = false and " network.dns.disablePrefetch " = true . If I set now " network-prefetch " = true and " network.dns.disablePrefetch " = false and restart FF 57, the settings are again: " network-prefetch " = false and " network.dns.disablePrefetch " = true (even if “Block all hyperlink auditing attempts” is still disabled). If I disable uMatrix itself completely and set my default settings (true & false) in FF again and take a restart, there are no changes in my FF - settings. Is this by design or a bug?

#167

By design. uMatrix by its nature will not let your browser establish connections to the outside world if network requests are meant to be blocked – hence it internally disable pre-fetching, pre-connecting and pre-dns lookups.

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#171

Using Firefox 57.0.1 and uMatrix 1.1.16. I would like to force Gmail login screen to use the older style input fields. This is because the current version of the login does not automatically log you out on browser close. If one disables Javascript on accounts.google.com under Chrome it forces Google to serve up the older login screen.

However in Firefox when I enable the newly added "Spoof tags when 1st-party scripts are blocked" and then go to accounts.google.com scope and block Script and reload the page for gmail login nothing displays. Am I trying to do the impossible here in Firefox? Unlike Chrome which allows you to block Javascript from within the browser settings itself Firefox doesn’t.

By the way this is after I reset uMatrix back to its default settings since I had imported a bunch of rules I had built up in Chrome over the years and thought it was best to start from a clean slate.

#172

I see a <meta http-equiv="refresh"> in the <noscript> tag. However as noted in the release notes, for some reason Firefox does not execute the redirection.

I thought Google would be considerate enough to put in a link that can be clicked manually, but I see it’s not the case in the current scenario.

So I will need to execute the redirection manually – but only for Firefox, since it works fine with Chromium. I will try to fix this for next release. Another solution is to insert a link to be clicked manually.

#173

Ya its a never ending battle of wack a mole with browsers it seems. With Chrome on Windows you can block javascript within Chrome itself. That I do not think is possible in Firefox 57 at least.

When you say a link to click on is that a link to a javascript with a <meta http-equiv="refresh"> in it? I use multiple gmail accounts that are all logged into during a browser session. Just wanted to make sure that it was not an oversight on my part with some setttings in uMatrix that I did not set properly.

#174

I just published a release candidate with a fix for the <meta http-equiv="refresh" ...> in it:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/umatrix/versions/beta

See it this solves your blank page issue.

#175

Yes it solves the issue with blocking acccounts.google.com. Now I see the login boxes as one should. Thanks for the quick fix.