In the "My Filters" tab, no information is shown when the list is disabled

[ruihildt]

Prerequisites

• I verified that this is not a filter list issue. Report any issues with filter lists or broken website functionality in the uAssets issue tracker.
• This is NOT a YouTube, Facebook or Twitch report. These sites MUST be reported by clicking their respective links.
• This is not a support issue or a question. For support, questions, or help, visit /r/uBlockOrigin.
• I performed a cursory search of the issue tracker to avoid opening a duplicate issue.
• The issue is not present after disabling uBO in the browser.
• I checked the documentation to understand that the issue I am reporting is not normal behavior.

I tried to reproduce the issue when...

• uBO is the only extension.
• uBO uses default lists and settings.
• using a new, unmodified browser profile.

Description

When "My filters" list is deactivated in the "Filters list", users are confused that adding custom filters in the "My filters" tab doesn't work, because they don't notice the whole thing is disabled.

I would like to suggest showing a message on the "My filters" tab page when the "My filters" list isn't enabled.

This is especially an issue for Mullvad Browser users, since the "My filters" list is disabled by default, for browser fingerprinting concerns (custom filters could make you more uniquely identifiable).

(FYI, I'm working for Mullvad on the Mullvad Browser)

A specific URL where the issue occurs.

https://mullvad.net

Steps to Reproduce

• Start Firefox with uBlock Origin
• Click on the
• Disable the "My filters" list in the "Filters list" tab
• Go to the "My filters" tab

Expected behavior

When the "My filters" list is disabled, an information message is displayed in the "My filters" tab.

Actual behavior

When the "My filters" list is disabled, there is no way to know in the "My filters" tab that the list is currently disabled.

uBO version

1.56.0

Browser name and version

Firefox 123

Operating System and version

Fedora KDE Spin 39

[gorhill]

How about a checkbox to enable/disable "My filters" directly in the pane?

[ruihildt]

@gorhill That would be even clearer.

[u-RraaLL]

Could you add a button (e.g. next to the export buttons) for mobile to collapse the checkbox section?

They take a significant amount of space, which mobile doesn't have a lot of when typing.

[u-RraaLL]

Nice changes. The search input placeholder which is meant to replace the outside magnifying glass icon kinda looks like a pin/location icon to me though. Why not go the same route as in the Filter lists pane where the svg is simply inside the input?

If you want to keep the placeholder method instead, probably best to change it in that pane too. For unity.

But I think a better choice for a placeholder might be the telephone recorder which looks like the right-facing magnifying glass: ऋ.

[gorhill]

better choice for a placeholder might be the telephone recorder

That's how it looks on my side, in both Chromium and Firefox:

I had forgotten about what I did for "Filter lists", but the idea was that I wanted to keep it simple by just using a Unicode character in the placeholder attribute. There is an emoji for magnifier -- 🔍 -- but support is not guaranteed.

[gorhill]

The event handler for the search bar is hooked onto mousedown, I can't remember why I implemented that way. Using mousedown instead of click is probably what is causing this issue.

[u-RraaLL]

Weird, I've been able to reproduce this on my 3rd and 4th try, but not any of the latter dozens of tries I've made.

[gorhill]

I will use click instead of mousedown, this should fix the issue. As to why I used mousedown, I believe it was because using click causes the CodeMirror editor to lose focus, but I found that just calling cm.focus() in the event handler gives back focus to the editor.

[gorhill]

it works on my side when the search field has focus, i.e. when the caret is visible in the search field.

[gorhill]

Works the same in Firefox on my side.

[gorhill]

When you reproduce the issue, is the undo applied to the content of the CodeMirror editor?