Matisyahu's Blog

Yeah, it is raining again – I was hoping that I could have some walking in but every time I get myself prepared it starts raining so in the end I decided I’m going to jump into bed, watch some television shows and update my blog while I’m at it. During the day there was an alert sent out by the civil defence to send out an alert (link) – something I wouldn’t forget about too easily after the racket it made.

Apple has released updates for all its platforms with quite a few security fixes not to mention changes in macOS 15.6 (link) but the big bug fix I have been waiting for which has arrived in Safari 18.6 is this (link):

Fixed 'allowAllRequests' for declarativeNetRequest. (151015324).

The issue that existed with Safari prior to 18.6 was an issue where websites which made use of Cloudflare (where it verifies whether you’re human) kept hanging on that page with the tick box not coming up. I’ve downloaded and installed the latest Testflight version of uBlock Origin Lite and it is now working with Safari 18.6. If you are using Safari and want a good content blocker then sign up for the Testflight test builds because in my experience it has been pretty stable but then again I only enable all the main filters (I don’t enable any of the additional language based filters). Still more issues that need resolving but I’m hoping that it’ll be something we’ll see in a 26.x updates given that the bug report notes that they’re still working on fixing web extension support not fixed in the release that is being prepared for a stable public release.

On a side note uBlock Origin Lite 2025.728.1406 has been released ot the Chrome extensions store – I just noticed then that my browser had updated the extension. Everything going well so far, AdGuard hasn’t been updated but going by the github notes there appears to be a lot of activity regarding bug fixes so I wouldn’t be surprised if we end up seeing another beta build being made available.

An update for Chrome 138 which released today which updated it from Version 138.0.7204.169 to 138.0.7204.184 – the update is available on my Windows work computer and on my personal Mac computers but the update hasn’t made its way to Android yet (138.0.7204.179 will be version number for Android). There were 4 security fixes (they don’t make the details of those security vulnerabilities until there has been enough time for people to update their browser to the latest secure version) but I assume because they haven’t pushed it out to Android as quickly then it maybe due to the fact that Android’s built in security already does a pretty good job mitigating it until the update is made available.