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That's handy.

I wonder why it displays without javascript in chromium, but fails to do so in firefox. If the author is here, could that be fixed?

Edit:

Restarting chromium and trying again yields the same behavior as firefox. I wonder if the javascript somehow slipped past umatrix & ublock origin on my first try. Given that I launched chromium by dragging the link onto its icon the first time, perhaps the script-blocking extensions weren't fully loaded?

Testing again several more times, that does seem likely. I can reproduce it intermittently by dragging the URL onto my chromium shortcut if chromium isn't already running.

Edit 2: Sure enough:

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/1913

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/1327

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I'm not the author.

The html sourcecode shows the content of the table is not served within the page, but is added on page load through javascript by formatting a json requested file. I changed the browser's user-agent to chrome and the same page was served (though the link to git shows it's an static page). My guess is may be chromium is not disabling javascript.

PS: I'm a Firefox user too, I always browse with Javascript disabled by uMatrix (in addition to uBlockOrigin), I only enable it when the web deserves it and leaving disabled third domains js loads almost always.

I'm the author and I can confirm. The website will not work with JS disabled simply because it's a static HTML "skeleton" page loading JSON tables with JS and populating a <table> element. If it's working then it means you must have JS enabled. I don't plan to add support for browsers without JS, but the JSON tables have all the information you need anyway, and those are just static files (e.g. https://syscalls.mebeim.net/db/x86/64/x64/latest/table.json).

>slipped past umatrix & ublock origin on my first try. Given that I launched chromium by dragging the link onto its icon the first time, perhaps the script-blocking extensions weren't fully loaded?

Yes. Chrome will actually pause extensions loading to deliver you that first rendered picture fraction(arguable, probably slower in the end considering extensions load from disk) of a second faster. I think it was direct uBO sabotage.

TLDR: First website loaded by starting browser with a link or from last session has almost 100% chance of bypassing uBlockOrigin. Chrome and Chromium based browsers are not User Agents, they are Google Agents.

It also happen when opening a link in Incognito mode

Chrome breaks security addons by design, in the name of "performance". It's purely a coincidence that Chrome is made by a major ad company.

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