I broke my Snapshot.
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@steffie said in I broke my Snapshot.:
EDIT: Oh sod it, no i was wrong about Lappy -- its SS is perfectly happy with 1.16.6. Looks like i do have to build a new Tower [& VM] profile, after all. Damn damn damn.
Au contraire. Now for the silver lining to today's annoying dark cloud.
I am sick to the back teeth of rebuilding my profile. Given that the only misbehaviour is the uO 1.16.6 pop-up, my passion to do yet another profile rebuild was... non-existent. So i decided not to, but instead to think laterally.
I have disabled uBlock Origin, installed uMatrix, imported my very long Rules list ex uO into uM, and... it is wonderful
Not only does the uM popup work fine, phew, & all my old Rules work well in it, but the superior granularity of uM over uO has enabled me to solve a problem i'd never been able to crack for years in uO... get it working on an important domestic media streaming site i use everyday, which in uO i'd only ever been able to make work by disabling uO on that site [aka; whitelisting].
Cake, & eat it. Huzzah.
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@steffie too bad I could notice this misbehaviour only on the home PC, I'm writing now from the work PC, and despite both PCs have the same Windows 7 32bit, same Vivaldi 1.16.1183.3 (Official Build) (32-bit) and the same uBO 1.16.6, the uBO window displays correctly here.
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@steffie There's something glitchy about this uB0 release, especially with Advanced-user mode enabled. Last night, I also switched back to uMatrix.
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@ian-coog It's puzzlingly inconsistent how the combo can be good on one pc but bad on another... you & me both.
uM is still going gangbusters here now on Tower... so far...
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OK, so you have done everything you can think of to repair uBO. Is it possible it not uBO?
I have never used KDE but an wondering about it. Perhaps something in 'Preferences' of mouse/trackpad?
Does it work on another Desktop Environment? If so, then maybe you can fix KDE from the other DE.
I have manged to break my DE (LXDE) once or twice and was able to repair it by logging out and logging back in using my other DE (XFCE).
If you do not have another DE get one. Having one DE is like hving one browser... if it goes kaput there may be no way to fix it. (Unless yiu still have one of those AOL Floppy Discs.)
I prefer Cinnamon but there are many to chose from. many are both lightweight and full featured so you can get things done. Just use your favourite search engine or Wikipedia, you'll find something to suit you. -
I reverted to 1.16.4 at home, uBO menu is now drawn correctly. Oh Well.
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@ian-coog said in I broke my Snapshot.:
reverted to 1.16.4 at home
How? And how will you stop auto-update again?
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@greybeard Thank you, but i respectfully suggest that the data i have supplied is not indicative of a DE problem.
Furthermore it's clearly not even a Linux issue... witness Ian's home pc with Win7 x86.
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@steffie Rather than installing uB0 from the Chrome Web Store, you can download any version from https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases and install the extension manually in Developer mode. When you install this way, updates have to be done manually as well.
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@steffie point taken... I thought I'd mention it as I also am running both Win10, Vista and Linux Mint (x3) with V and uBO.
I have noticed some odd issues with uBO the last while (when trying to open the dashboard it simply flashes, on the second try it opens properly) nothing like the issues you've had.
I certainly wish you the best of luck resolving this issue.
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@greybeard said in I broke my Snapshot.:
some odd issues with uBO the last while
Aha, yes, uO 1.16.6 seems to be buggy.
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@xyzzy Oh brilliant, ta muchly kind soul. Have bookmarked those now, just in case uMatrix decides to turn on me later. That said, uM is still going well, so far...
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For any uMatrix Vusers please.
How can one unblock the bare minimum needed to make the necessary page images of the article itself appear [ie, Figure A, Figure B...]?
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-use-snapshots-in-virtualbox/
With uO active & uM off, these work [ie, the target images appear]:
www.techrepublic.com akamaized.net * noop www.techrepublic.com cbsistatic.com * noop www.techrepublic.com google.com * block www.techrepublic.com techrepublic.com * noop
I have these in uM:
www.techrepublic.com akamaized.net * allow www.techrepublic.com cbsistatic.com * allow www.techrepublic.com google.com * block www.techrepublic.com techrepublic.com * allow
In uM i have even tried greenlighting every visible row, but the images still do not show. So far i can only see them if i whitelist this page in uM, which i consider a highly undesirable method.
I have even disabled each of these, but the page images still do not appear:
So far in the short time i've used uM in place of uO i've been able to solve each page i've needed, but this one is currently beating me.
I've now manually installed uO 1.16.4, which works well, unlike 1.16.6. The TechRepublic page works fine, just like this:
This is my current [unsuccessful] uM UI for this page:
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@steffie Aha, sussed it out. Now i can again disable uO & just run solely with uM, including on that domain.
The missing ingredient was this one:
techrepublic.com www.googletagservices.com * allow
It was hiding down within the collapsed...
Until tonight i had not even noticed that minuscule little down-arrowlet. When one clicks it, lo & behold, a hidden world of myriad blocked items appears, amongst which lurks that key one per above. Thus now:
That comes from Chromium, not V. I decided to troubleshoot it today not in V, just to ensure it was not some strange V-only fault. It's not... but in so-doing i discovered what clearly IS a V-fault. Notice the vertical scrollbar in the Chromium instance of uM? It's missing in V-SS & V-Stable.
PS: This popularity dichotomy amused me:
vs
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Hadden89 found the culprit, it's the UI zoom < 100% facepalm
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/27840/bug-ublock-origin-nano-adblocker-popup
I had my Home's Vivaldi set at 85% while at work I keep it at 100%. Now I changed back to 100% also here, installed uB0 1.16.9RC0 and the popup is ok again.
I had to adapt the Speed dial mod to make the thumbs smaller to fit the 6x5 thumbs in it, and apart having larger tabs, everything is ok now. -
@ian-coog Aha, cool, many thanks for pointing this out to me... curses - why did i not realise this myself?
UI 100% is simply too big for me; aesthetically IMO V becomes ugly, but also it compromises usability [eg, i use a lot of WebPanels, & at 100% they extend so far down that the Settings button vanishes, which is unacceptable to me].
Mind you, at the rate my dotage & physical disintegration continues [the law of the universe --entropy-- gets us all in the end], pretty soon i might have to use UI 100%. In V's youth, i used 75%, which has gradually become 77%, 80%, 83%, 85%, 88%, 90% & is now 93%. Sigh.
BTW, though it's OT, i shall add a post to https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/27840/bug-ublock-origin-nano-adblocker-popup mentioning that the bug also afflicts uM.
BTW-2: I have now really grown comfy with uM, & really do prefer it over uO. Funny that; when i first discovered uM many years ago it totally confounded me, so i retreated to uO with my tail between my legs.
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@steffie
I use a different solution than the u[extensions] but if it is possible to fine grade further you only need to allowtr2.cbsistatic.com
tr4.cbsistatic.com
(and if possible only the main script here, but if the others are blocked the advertisement script is empty anyway, so I didn't bother)www.techrepublic.com
to get the bare minimum, i.e. article and images.
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