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uBlock Origin Released as a Pure WebExtension for Firefox

Accepted submission by -- OriginalOwner_ http://tinyurl.com/OriginalOwner at 2017-08-31 22:48:29 from the vigilant-developers-are-a-blessing dept.
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-- OriginalOwner_ [tinyurl.com] writes:

Martin Brinkmann at gHacks reports [ghacks.net]

A new WebExtension version of the popular content blocker uBlock Origin was [uploaded on August 31] to Mozilla's official add-ons repository for Firefox.

The new version is compatible with Firefox's new WebExtensions standard for extensions, and will as such continue to work when Firefox 57 gets released.

This first official release of the WebExtensions version of uBlock Origin works for the most part just like the legacy add-on version.

Users may experience issues however when they upgrade from the legacy version of the add-on to the new version.

Raymond Hill, the developer of uBlock Origin suggests that 32-bit users of Firefox stay on version 1.13.8 of the add-on until these issues are resolved.

[Workarounds for storage limit bug for extra filter lists and custom settings described]

[...]Additional information [is] available on uBlock Origin's Mozilla AMO page [mozilla.org], and the GitHub project site [github.com].

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