If possible - I’d like to see uM (or uBO) to develope even further. Possible new features could be:
- http/https enforcer
- Redirect management (strip, replace, add, etc of urls)
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I’ve updated to nightly 56.0a1 (2017-07-28) (64-bit)
This seems to have mostly broken uMatrix (along with other addons).
The panel shows information about requests from the current page, but only for a split second. It then jumps to what seems like the information from the previous page.
For example, if one opens a new tab and goes directly to a site, the menu will show requests, but then most will be hidden, showing mostly irrelevant requests.
The scope selector in the top left will say that the lowest scope is blank.about-scheme
If I try to go on a site like google.com, I am redirected to google.co.uk, in which case uMatrix will revert to showing the scope as google.com.
This was done with all other addons disabled.
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Looks like uMatrix’s frame script is no longer loaded into frame processes (aka WebContent processes). Same for legacy uBO, and who knows how many other legacy extensions out there.
uMatrix/webext seems to work, except that it’s afflicted by other WebExtensions-specific glitches which are yet to be fixed by Firefox devs.
I can’t reproduce this bug, Nightly 30-07-17, uMatrix 1.0.1b2. uMatrix works perfectly, I couldn’t find a single glitch. What am I missing here?
How serious are these glitches? I am planning to use uMatrix for security purposes so if security might somehow be compromised, that’s a critical flow for me. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find anything about these glitches on bugzilla or github so any help is welcome. I’ll keep searching in the meanwhile.
Basically, from times to times, the rules that are applied are not those that are associated with the site you are visiting but some from another host.
I seem to be able to reproduce this reliably (using latest nightly as of now) by going to extension menu and clicking to the “LEGACY” (or any synonym, I am not using an English version). When the mozilla page loads, uMatrix applies rules from blank:about-scheme in my setup. You may need to force multi-process mode for this to happen if I understand well what gorhill said.
(Edited to quote the relevant part of the previous message…)
The one which still exists is that just hovering over the matrix cells will always reset the scroll position to the top. So if you have a long list of domains and want to set a rule for a row which is visible only if you scroll down, the matrix will jump back to the top. Bugzilla issue: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1324499.
@gorhill Thank you, I’ve just reproduced this bug! There is one more bug I found. uMatrix WE1.0.1b2 from github, Nightly 31-07-17. uMatrix icon on the navigation toolbar is not rendered:
STR: Create new profile, open new tab, go to about:config and disable signature pref, then go to about:addons in the same tab and install uBO from hard drive, close the current tab.
There are two errors related to uMatrix in the browser console, the one is “Unknown localization message popuptipdashboard”, another “matrixSnapshot.usersettings is undefined”. More details on the screenshots here:
http://imgur.com/a/Br2Kd
This bug is not reproduced if I move uMatrix icon to the overflow menu(right click on uMatrix icon - Pin to Overflow Menu). However, the width of the overflow menu is too small so the most part of the uMatrix dashboard is not visible. I don’t know if that’s intended or not.
Just to note that this actually results pretty inconvenient things, for example this discourse uses a login which depends on external javascripts and without them doesn’t even offer some login methods, so the users coming here reportig the problem don’t even see the login to be able to actually report. Naturally everything randomly breaks, for example google search results cannot be clicked on anymore, etc. uMatrix logs show the rejections but it’s really not helping, since the reasons behind those are, um, convoluted.
Do you expect it ever to work again…?
It would be beneficial to mention its existence in the uMatrix github main readme, including the specific location and the way to install it (since it’s unsigned).
(As a side-question: why is it tagged LEGACY while it’s supposed to be webext?)
Note that uBO/webext will still be labelled as “Legacy” in about:addons, because uBO/webext is really a webext-hybrid extension. Once the legacy storage has been imported at first install by the thin legacy wrapper, uBO/webext will fully function as a pure webext extension despite the “Legacy” label.
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uMatrix became almost unusable since the latest beta (56.0b1). The pop-up width seems to not adjust to fit all the columns: http://i.imgur.com/nBF7Vbf.png
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With the new beta uMatrix 1.0.1b5 webextension and FF 55.0.1, the scroll bar for modifing the controls, will pop to the top once you try to edit a site setting and you just can not, since it will keep going to the top and not let you edit anything if you have to move the scroll bar down. This does not happen using uMatrix 1.0.0 and FF 5.0.1.
@paulius I had the same issue. Downloading the latest development version from the AMO website fixed it but introduced an issue that’s just as bad (as explained by Gothic_Death). It’s still unusable but I assume the dev version is the one that’ll get fixed first.
As @Gothic_Death mentioned, the latest WebExt-hybrid version is unusable (GIF). After reading further up, it seems the issue is already known about.
There seems to be no working version of uMatrix for FF 56; Both the legacy and WebExtension versions are currently broken.
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Hi. Thanks for the update. uMatrix has been a mainstay for my user experience with Firefox Developer Edition. In the interim while we wait for Mozilla to rectify the issue, would it be possible for the uMatrix dialogue window to automatically vertically size to the number of lines required for the number of rules in the page to be displayed – even if this is below the bottom of the screen? i.e. enable the content to set the vertical margins? I believe if the pop-up would provide such an interface then we’d be able to use the bowser’s scroll bar to re-position the portion of the window which is visible. Thanks again for all your work on uMatrix.
There is a sort-of workaround in current uMatrix: open the logger, then click in a cell in the 2nd column in the logger. This will bring up the popup panel inside the logger, for the tab matching the clicked log entry. One thing I could do is implement something like in uBO: if you ctrl-shift the All cell in the dynamic filtering pane in uBO’s popup panel, the popup panel opens in its own tab.
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Raymond, Hi. Thanks. The logger work-around is very useful. Good working solution. And yes, having that type of pop-up panel would be very welcome – esp. if it could be activated from the uMatrix Toolbar icon. I’m assuming on MacOS that activation would be option-shift? Rob.
The listing in the popup auto-scrolls to top, which makes it impossible to change settings that are listed below the view port.
Anytime this will be fixed?
Using uMatrix 1.0.1.4
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edit: issue already reported (panel jumps back to top)