If you spend a bit more time reading about the issue, the way Google is changing the API in Chrome will make the very methods uBO is using obsolete. They are crippling ad blockers at the browser level and no amount of forking will change that.

Edit: There seem to be few good alternatives at this point, now that almost every browser developer is using Chromium. Waterfox, Icecat and Iceweasel all have different things I like about them, but no one has 'the full package' any more. Google made sure of that.