uBlacklist for Firefox Changelog

What's new in uBlacklist for Firefox 8.5.1

Feb 27, 2024
  • Google: update handler of image search (3fe8ac1), closes #406
  • Google: update handler of regular results (bc2106f), closes #413

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 8.5.0 (Jan 22, 2024)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • google: update support for video search (3b572b6), closes #389
  • locales: update zh-tw l10n (#400) (6050319)
  • Features:
  • duckduckgo: add support for DDG lite (only in Chrome) (eb9c742), closes #392

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 8.4.0 (Dec 3, 2023)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Google,ios: improve dark mode detection
  • Update French and English translations
  • Features:
  • Android: unlock sync feature

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 8.3.8 (Nov 26, 2023)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • android: enable options page to be opened from popup page
  • bing,ios: update handler in image search
  • google,android: do not filter non-results
  • google,android: update filter for news search
  • google,ios: reduce padding of controls in image search
  • google,ios: update filter for video results
  • google,ios: update theme detection method
  • google: filter "Discussions and forums"

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 8.3.7 (Nov 20, 2023)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • brave: blocking search results no longer work (#374) (1f8cc2b)
  • google,ios: filter results in tabs (87dd732)
  • google,ios: update selectors for image and video search (ddd3d2a), closes #373
  • google: filter video results appended later (c10156e), closes #369

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 8.3.6 (Nov 14, 2023)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • firefox: mark as Android compatible (dd0b212)
  • google: update the selector for video results (0f51646), closes #372
  • searx: add search.whatever.social (#368) (c0ce777)

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 8.3.5 (Sep 25, 2023)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Google: prevent duplication of controls (56e8bbb), closes #365

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 8.3.4 (Sep 18, 2023)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • google: fix selector for video results (74008ab), closes #364

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 8.3.3 (Sep 3, 2023)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • google: fix selectors for "people also ask" and featured snippets (4ff8583)
  • google: fix selectors for video results and video search (8339348)
  • google: fix support for AutoPagerize in news search (e9aacf0)
  • google: insert a control even if SGE is enabled (4dc1a73)
  • update list of searx instances (#353) (b76dc2e)

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 8.3.2.1 (Aug 10, 2023)

  • google: update selectors of "top stories" (00a1af1)
  • google: update selectors of image search (861fb43), closes #352

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 8.3.2 (Jul 16, 2023)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Google: update selectors of "top stories" (00a1af1)
  • Google: update selectors of image search (861fb43), closes #352

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 8.3.1 (Jun 3, 2023)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • duckduckgo: fix selectors for DuckDuckGo (aa00276), closes #346
  • google: fix selectors for news (3be1694), closes #345

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 8.3.0 (Apr 11, 2023)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • add the lang attribute to controls and entries (0b15ea7), closes #337
  • google: adjust the action position for Twitter results (7acea4c)
  • Features:
  • bing: add a workaround for "Open links in new tab" (ea92388)
  • locales: add Polish (pl-PL) translation (#331) (2aa903e)

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 8.2.7 (Mar 28, 2023)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Google: follow SERP update (0cd53ac), closes #333

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 8.2.6 (Feb 27, 2023)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Google: follow SERP update (b6d6468), closes #316

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 8.2.5 (Jan 12, 2023)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Firefox,google: get correct links in Firefox for Android (8a3d8f1), closes #312
  • Ios,google: adapt to updated site links (e7e6fcb)

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 8.2.4 (Jan 8, 2023)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • google,ios: support a DOM structure without a.ping (3963e6c)
  • locales: update zh-TW translation (9862deb)
  • searx: update SearX / SearXNG support (#310) (598da21)

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 8.2.3 (Dec 16, 2022)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • google,ios: filter news of new design (51017d5)
  • google: adapt to new design for English & U.S. (a84cd2f), closes #299 #301
  • google: get titles from latest / top stories of new design (7532772)
  • google: highlight recipes (c274bd2)
  • google: make actions clickable on Twitter search results (afc70ba)

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 8.2.2 (Dec 11, 2022)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Google: don't filter knowledge panels for now
  • Google: hide/highlight whole featured snippets
  • Google: highlight whole card-style results
  • Google,ios: update default link color in dark mode

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 8.2.1 (Dec 3, 2022)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • google: adapt to results with thumbnails added by AutoPagerize (5ff2ca7)

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 8.2.0 (Nov 26, 2022)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Google: adapt to the new DOM structure (446d292)
  • Google: fix action position on image search (10e326a)
  • Google: fix title detection on image search (de8afbd)
  • Locales: update Korean translation (#294) (19935b3)
  • Features:
  • Add basic support for SearX / SearXNG (#289) (5e26f0f), closes #143

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 8.1.1 (Oct 28, 2022)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Update Chinese translation
  • Update German translation
  • V8.1.0 is completely broken!

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 8.1.0 (Oct 27, 2022)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Google: remove remaining space when hiding nested results.
  • Features:
  • Backup and restore settings.

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 8.0.2 (Sep 18, 2022)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Update German translation.
  • Bing: don't block www.bing.com itself.
  • Add notes for Bing and Qwant.
  • Google: adapt to fact-checked results.
  • Qwant: adapt to updated class names.

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 8.0.1 (Aug 16, 2022)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Google: adapt to updated YouTube channel results (c3a1755), closes #263

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 8.0.0 (Aug 11, 2022)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • don't run registerContentScripts twice (7b7cb7c)
  • chore:
  • ruleset: restrict prop abbreviations (c96e986)
  • Features:
  • chrome-mv3: migrate to Manifest V3 (377a41b), closes #240
  • BREAKING CHANGES:
  • chrome-mv3: drop support for Chrome versions older than 102
  • ruleset: drop support for incomplete abbreviations of "title" such as ti/example/

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 7.8.5 (Jul 28, 2022)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Update links to the website to point to a translated version (4991604)

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 7.8.4 (Jul 2, 2022)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Google: force background color of search results (542a818), closes #251

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 7.8.3 (Jun 30, 2022)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Locales: update Ukrainian translation (#249) (ac8f5ee)
  • Safari: fix problems with Google Search on iOS (#250) (73a1b83)

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 7.8.2 (Jun 29, 2022)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Chrome: bind API methods just to be safe (d49acf2)

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 7.8.0 (Jun 27, 2022)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Sync: fix a potential problem after turning off sync
  • Features:
  • Add initial support for brave search engine

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 7.7.0 (Jun 21, 2022)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Firefox: fix the behavior of the "Other search engines" dialog (5b88625)
  • Features:
  • Bing: add support for www2.bing.com and www4.bing.com (4d03677), closes #222
  • Add Yandex search engine initial support (#217) (9226060)

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 7.6.0 (May 22, 2022)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • ecosia: fix the position of actions (35987f1)
  • Features:
  • add Yahoo! JAPAN as search engine (#236) (2ce5c2f)
  • options: add a dialog to enable other search engine support (09963ec)

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 7.5.3 (May 5, 2022)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Add missing string translation
  • Fix the reversed dialog theme on DuckDuckGo and Startpage.com
  • Duckduckgo: use data attributes

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 7.5.2 (Mar 6, 2022)

  • update Korean translation (#214) (5377edf)
  • update Russian translation (#213) (4ef8766)

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 7.5.1 (Feb 23, 2022)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • update Chinese translation

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 7.5.0 (Feb 20, 2022)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Google: change the position of actions (a9e403c)
  • Options: update the options for sync and subscription intervals (95e727a)
  • Features:
  • Options: add the "about" section (0515154)

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 7.4.3 (Feb 16, 2022)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Google: fix news support (dc88228), closes #208
  • Update German translation (#206) (f686331)

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 7.4.2 (Feb 8, 2022)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Update Chinese translation

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 7.4.1 (Feb 7, 2022)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Locales: fix typos in French translation.

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 7.4.0 (Feb 5, 2022)

  • Features:
  • sync: add an option to use the "alternative" web auth flow (8439a12), closes #187
  • add French (🇫🇷) translation (#196) (4a1c3f2)

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 7.3,0 (Jan 25, 2022)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • block-dialog: fix focus trap (0fe5668)
  • options: improve focus trap (e20c029)
  • Features:
  • block-dialog: focus the block button by default (da0d934), closes #192

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 7.2.3 (Jan 20, 2022)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • google: don't block latest/top stories twice (b1a0522)
  • google: fix the action position for Twitter results (2021e25)
  • locales: fix two typos in German translation (#191) (47b8aaf)

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 7.2.2 (Jan 13, 2022)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • google: update selectors for "All" results (2cb6b36)

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 7.1.0 (Jan 10, 2022)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Google: adjust action styles
  • Google: avoid blocking knowledge panels
  • Google: fix handling of featured snippets
  • I18n: replace the words "listas negras" with "lista de filtros" in Spanish
  • Features:
  • Options: make the ruleset editor resizable

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 7.0.1 (Jan 4, 2022)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • options: don't set dirty flag on reloading ruleset (ae6031f)
  • update chinese translation (#175) (6c36ce9)

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 7.0.0 (Jan 4, 2022)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • options,popup: reduce blinking (b56951a)
  • Features:
  • subscription: add checkbox to toggle subscription (6bad277), closes #173
  • add a ruleset editor to the options page (2e2fecb), closes #168
  • BREAKING CHANGES:
  • regular expressions with flags other than 'i' and 'u' (e.g. /example/g) are now invalid.

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 6.15.0 (Dec 18, 2021)

  • Add Spanish translation

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 6.14.0 (Dec 14, 2021)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • disable spellcheck in textareas (4242987)
  • google: hide or highlight entire featured snippets (d7508cf)
  • ios: adjust the position of buttons (ab6c296)
  • ios: block YouTube channels with the new DOM structure (7c17150)
  • update Russian translation (#156) (7898741)
  • Features:
  • google: filter nested results (650d11c), closes #157

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 6.13.0 (Dec 10, 2021)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • google: add support for top stories with new styles
  • Features:
  • improve performance for big tests, closes #155
  • ios: add support for dark mode

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 6.12.0 (Nov 28, 2021)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Update German translation.
  • Use the color-scheme property to handle dark mode.
  • Features:
  • Options: update the color picker (59d4f72).

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 6.11.0 (Nov 21, 2021)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • update Korean translation (#146) (b29a2de)
  • google: add support for updated video search (b4ee310), closes #147
  • ios: add support for updated video results of web search (5914d48)
  • Features:
  • google: add support for YouTube channel results of web search (6febaed)
  • add an option to block whole sites using the Public Suffix List (13a3dd6)
  • block-dialog: show IDNs (08ce926)

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 6.10.0 (Nov 7, 2021)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Startpage: fix support for video search (a5c9116)
  • Change the base font (03a7ac7)
  • Components: fix the position of button text (8a19aa4)
  • Features:
  • Ios: add support for Bing on iPhone (6d6f0d2), closes #144

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 6.9.0 (Oct 24, 2021)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • ecosia: add support for the old version of SERP (for Firefox?) (357708b)
  • firefox: avoid deactivation on adding SERP URLs (16ee8d3)
  • popup: request permission for current match pattern only (58fb1c1)
  • Features:
  • duckduckgo: add support for html.duckduckgo.com on Chrome (a5ab984), closes #140

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 6.8.3 (Oct 17, 2021)

  • Fix a dialog UI issue on iPhone.

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 6.8.2 (Oct 9, 2021)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • duckduckgo: improve color customization (9bb9c6f)
  • ecosia: work around for Nuxt.js (ffb6b3b)
  • google: change the position of actions in video results (7b8430c)
  • google: do not block a top story twice (4cae7ec)
  • ios: filter video results on activation (34f8832)

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 6.8.1 (Oct 6, 2021)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • update Chinese translation (#132) (8f06382)
  • update German translation (ed48150)

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 6.8.0 (Oct 5, 2021)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • prevent double injection of content scripts (8023ee6)
  • Features:
  • open a popup to activate this extension on SERP (854fe90)

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 6.7.0 (Oct 3, 2021)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • ios: improve support for "all" search (e4e9496)
  • Features:
  • ios: add support for image, news and video search (dad88b9), closes #99

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 6.6.2 (Oct 1, 2021)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • google: update support for featured snippets (042f82b)

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 6.6.1 (Sep 27, 2021)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • update German translation (#126) (e2f3749)
  • update Japanese translation (76e4dab)
  • update Ukrainian translation (#127) (cad2ea1)
  • duckduckgo: update styles (31e0250)

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 6.6.0 (Sep 24, 2021)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • iOS: work around the sync problem (9218645), closes #99
  • Features:
  • Chrome: add subscription by URL query (7045cde)

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 6.5.0 (Sep 22, 2021)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • update Simplified Chinese translation (#120) (496fe22)
  • duckduckgo: typo for .result__sitelinks--organics (750be0b)
  • Features:
  • subscription: skip permission requests for another CDN (766ec45), closes #117

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 6.4.1 (Sep 20, 2021)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • downgrade the esbuild targets to Chrome 90 and Firefox 78 (303de4f), closes #122

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 6.3.6 (Sep 18, 2021)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • google: update AutoPagerize support to work with the new style of results (81e7b1a)

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 6.3.5 (Sep 16, 2021)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • duckduckgo: change sitelinks class (2ae9395)
  • duckduckgo: change sitelinks class (0491fb9)

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 6.3.4 (Sep 15, 2021)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • google: update google.ts for news search (56a180a), closes #119
  • Performance Improvements:
  • reduce alarm firing (9426f7c)

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 6.3.3 (Sep 10, 2021)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • google: update support for "Top stories" (c733de5)

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 6.3.2 (Sep 7, 2021)

  • Google: add support for the new style of "Top Stories" (eafb1ba)
  • Google: change background colors of featured snippets (16ebc53)
  • Google: improve support for "People Also Ask" (664dfa1)

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 6.3.1 (Aug 29, 2021)

  • Sync and update on the 'onInstalled' event (4f790fc)

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 6.2.1 (Aug 22, 2021)

  • Google: apply customized link colors to related images in image search (a17e512), closes #111

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 6.2.0 (Aug 13, 2021)

  • Add German translation (#107) (939e3ad)

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 6.1.1 (Aug 11, 2021)

  • Google: update support for video results (91b315e)

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 6.1.0 (Aug 8, 2021)

  • Features:
  • Google: filter related images (4d6ad7f), closes #103

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 6.0.2 (Jul 27, 2021)

  • Update Korean translation

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 6.0.1 (Jun 21, 2021)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Google: filter the last results in pages appended by AutoPagerize (d04783f)

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 6.0.0 (Jun 14, 2021)

  • Features:
  • Bing: add cn.bing.com support (#95) (02bf587)
  • BREAKING CHANGES:
  • Bing: (for Firefox and Bing users) please re-enable the Bing support in the options page.

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 5.1.1 (Jun 12, 2021)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • google: change background colors of highlighted card-style results (4779b01)
  • google: filter web results with sitelinks (08428b2), closes #96 #98

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 5.1.0 (May 13, 2021)

  • Google: detect dark mode automatically

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 5.0.1 (Apr 26, 2021)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Google: extract a title from "People also ask" (68a1b6e)
  • Google: fix video search support (4e8a072), closes #93

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 5.0.0 (Apr 25, 2021)

  • Features:
  • startpage: add support for eu.startpage.com and other subdomains (37e71c4), closes #92
  • BREAKING CHANGES:
  • startpage: permission for 'https://*.startpage.com/' is required.

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 4.11.2 (Mar 31, 2021)

  • Update Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese translation (#89) (01de8b3)

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 4.11 (Mar 29, 2021)

  • Features:
  • filter search results by page title (580de02)

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 4.10.2 (Mar 25, 2021)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Update Korean translation

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 4.10.1 (Mar 23, 2021)

  • Update Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese translation

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 4.10.0 (Mar 21, 2021)

  • Add highlighting and custom colors (98dbf8d), closes #84

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 4.9.0 (Feb 9, 2021)

  • Add Ukrainian translation (#79) (ed91e40)

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 4.8.4 (Feb 9, 2021)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Google: add support for simplified Twitter results

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 4.8.3 (Feb 9, 2021)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • make it work with "Dark Theme for Google" (184d9e8), closes #77

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 4.8.3 (Feb 8, 2021)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Make it work with "Dark Theme for Google

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 4.8.2 (Feb 8, 2021)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Unify heights of textareas across browsers (1c68c0a)
  • Components: improve the textarea behavior (d62712a)
  • Duckduckgo: fix a problem on the mobile layout of the "News" scope (17e2721), closes #78
  • Google: add support for "About this result" (f6fe737)
  • Google: add support for search word carousel (583c62c)
  • Fix the font size of link buttons and menu items in Safari (9802a9b)
  • Improve accessibility (87bba42)
  • Show focus rings in Safari (639fb8c)

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 4.8.1 (Jan 25, 2021)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Improve accessibility (2d51028)

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 4.7.2 (Jan 8, 2021)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Google: add support for a new SERP type (17e859d)

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 4.5.0 (Dec 12, 2020)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • options: fix the colors of svg icons (a563aef)
  • Features:
  • add dark mode (3c54710), closes #68

New in uBlacklist for Firefox 4.4.1 (Dec 3, 2020)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • duckduckgo: hide results with site links entirely (55b9a40), closes #64