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2016-04-08Do not post hint descriptors back to the frame itself.Stephen Blott
When distributing hint descriptors, do not post a frame's own hint descriptors back to the frame itself. It already has them. With regard to the message-passing cost only, this represents a speedup of approximately 3/2 for link-busy sites like reddit -- several tens of milliseconds for me. There are other costs too (such as processing the hint descriptors) bu these are not affected.
2016-04-05Frame Ids must be integers.Stephen Blott
2016-04-05Unregister frame when postMessage fails.Stephen Blott
2016-04-05Better close-down for global link hints.Stephen Blott
- Unregister frames with the background-page hint coordinator. - Better page cleanup in the content scripts. - Require documentReady before harvesting hints. There is still an issue in some cases when link-hints are activated as a page is transitioning, but that problem case seems to have existed in 1.54. I'll continue to investigate.
2016-04-05Unregister frame on "unload".Stephen Blott
It seems we cannot rely on the port being disconnected to unregister a frame. So we need to unregister it on "unload".
2016-04-04Only send required link-hint properties.Stephen Blott
There's other stuff (ports, frameIds) in @tabState[tabId] that we don't need in the front end. Here, we only send the three properties which we do need.
2016-04-04Add backstop for global link hints.Stephen Blott
This is not at all satisfactory. I've seen cases where global link hints hangs, apparently because we do not hear back from a frame. The issue is repeatable when it happens, but not repeatable in general (if you reload the page, then it goes away). This suggests that there may be something fundamentally wrong with the global link-hints logic. However, what? In the interim, this adds a timer to trigger link-hints mode activation with whataver hints we do have after a short period of time. Ideally, we'll be able to get rid of this soon.
2016-04-04Better handling of port failures.Stephen Blott
If we lose contact with a frame (it's goine away) while still awaiting hints from that frame, then post a dummy/empty list of hints instead. This seems very unlikely to come up, but we should guard against it anyway. We use "nextTick()" so that we finish sending the current message before sending the dummy hints.
2016-04-04Handle all frames the same (for frames/ports).Stephen Blott
This is experimental, and may be reverted. I suspect that the special treatment of the top frame may actually be causing problems for global link hints (rather than solving them!).
2016-04-04Handle requireHref for link hints locally.Stephen Blott
The check that an element as an href (for certain hint modes) can be done earlier, thereby avoid the need to pass that information between frames.
2016-04-03Freeze frame state on link-hint activation.Stephen Blott
We take a copy of the frame Ids and ports at the point which link-hints mode is launched, and use that subsequently. Therefore, a newly created frame cannot cause the hint coordinator to become confused. Also: add debugging code.
2016-04-02Simplify UI component initialisation.Stephen Blott
There's no need for the previous complicated approach to UI component initialialisation, in particular for the Vomnibar. We only initialise the Vomnibar in the top frame. However, if for some reason it hasn't been initialised by the time it's needed, then we can just initialise it then. We are only initialising it early to avoid flicker, so it's not a correctness issue. And the only reason it wouldn't be initialised is if Vimium is disabled in the top frame, but enabled in some other frame -- which is not a common case.
2016-04-02Do not register tiny frames.Stephen Blott
This affects focusFrame and link hints. We do not register tiny frames. The reason for doing this is that link hints messages all (registered) frames to collect their hint descriptors. On some sites (e.g. Google Inbox and other Google properties), there are many tiny iframes (on the order of 12 or 15 or so). Those frames cannot provide useful hints, so -- by not registering them -- we don't ask them for hints. The intention is to speed up the link-hints activation sequence.
2016-04-02Separate registerFrame from port initialization.Stephen Blott
This is a no-op. It separates the process of registering a frame with the background page from the port initialization. The idea is that -- soon -- we will only register some frames; in particular, we should not register the many tiny iframes on pages like GMail. The eventual goal is to speed up the global link-hints initialisation sequence.
2016-04-02The name argument isn't being used here.Stephen Blott
2016-04-02Use ports for all link-hint messages.Stephen Blott
This seems to be considerably faster than using sendMessage().
2016-04-02Use port for frame-to-background messages.Stephen Blott
Without considering the size of the data passed, ports seem to be about 5 times fast than sendMessage(), so we use ports of link-hint messages wherever possible.
2016-04-02topFramePortForTab is no longer needed.Stephen Blott
We use portsForTab[0] instead.
2016-04-01Maintain portsForTab mapping tabIds to frame ports.Stephen Blott
This maintains a mapping from tab Ids to a mapping from frame Ids to their ports.
2016-03-28Use image data for icons.Stephen Blott
This uses image data (instead of a path) for the page icon. It also only builds 19x19 and 38x38 icons, as per the chrome.browserAction.setIcon() documentation. This appears to fix a memory leak related to a recent Chrome regression (versions 49+). Fixes #2055.
2016-03-28Global link hints; self code review.Stephen Blott
- Better comments in places. - Better variable and message names in some places.
2016-03-28Global link hints; rename message name.Stephen Blott
We cannot use "request" and "name" to describe a link-hints message. The message is then accepted (and fails) on the options page where there is no handler. So, here, use "messageType" instead of "name".
2016-03-28Global link hints...Stephen Blott
TODO: - fix tests
2016-03-26Rework global mark activation.Stephen Blott
There were two problems, both stemming from the fact that the notification was being displayed in the top frame, even if the mark was triggered in another frame: 1. That looks odd, because we close the HUD in one frame then open it in another. 2. As a side effect, we were moving the focus to the top frame. Here, we work out what's going to happen before sending the message to the background page. This allows us to display the message in the HUD in the frame which generated it.
2016-03-26Add test for badly-formed exclusion regexp.Stephen Blott
2016-03-26Multiple minor tweaks.Stephen Blott
Some of this code is showing its age, so these are just a number of minor tweaks (to keep things clear, consistent and concise). Also, add a couple of tests (while we're at it).
2016-03-26Merge branch 'standardise-foreground-commands'Stephen Blott
Conflicts: content_scripts/vimium_frontend.coffee
2016-03-26Get frameId in background page.Stephen Blott
2016-03-26Simplify expression.Stephen Blott
2016-03-26Move command to correct spot.Stephen Blott
This command (LinkHints.activateModeToCopyLinkUrl) has been in the wrong spot for quite some time. This just moves it to be with the other link-hints commands.
2016-03-26passCountToCommand isn't needed.Stephen Blott
We pass the count to *all* front-end commands. All of the commands which don't use a count, just ignore it.
2016-03-26Pass count to find commands.Stephen Blott
With this change, now *every* front-end command either accepts a count argument, or or it doesn't accept a count at all.
2016-03-26Fix inappropriate variable name.Stephen Blott
"description" is the first element here, not all elements. So "descriptor" is a better name.
2016-03-26selected wasn't being used here.Stephen Blott
2016-03-26Unified approach to repeat background command.Stephen Blott
2016-03-26Uniform treatment of request for all background commands.Stephen Blott
2016-03-18Reduce complexity for initialising the top frame.Stephen Blott
In #2053, I omitted to notice that the top-frame (vomnibar) initialisation sequence also generates O(n^2) messages. This makes that sequence O(n).
2016-03-17Logging; do not log the tab Id.Stephen Blott
The frame Ids are sufficiently distinct. And we do not always have enough horizontal space to keep log messages on a single line.
2016-03-17Logging; auto scroll to end.Stephen Blott
2016-03-17Logging; only show the time...Stephen Blott
... we know what day it is!
2016-03-17Logging; add auto-lauch option.Stephen Blott
2016-03-17Logging; move logMessage to BgUtils."Stephen Blott
2016-03-17Refactor setIcon to the background page.Stephen Blott
There's no need for the setting of the icon to be driven from the content script. We first know the enabled state in the background page, so set the icon there immediately.
2016-03-17More tweaks for #2053.Stephen Blott
2016-03-17Tweaks for #2053.Stephen Blott
2016-03-17Simplify domReady handling.Stephen Blott
2016-03-17Tweaks.Stephen Blott
2016-03-17Move isEnabledForUrl to Frame.port.Stephen Blott
2016-03-17Fix omission from 3768b54aa1ac12cdd809e7108a6a9fd629a1164f.Stephen Blott
2016-03-17Open frames port pre documentReady.Stephen Blott
The intention is to move checkIfEnabledForUrl to the frames port. That needs to run pre domReady, so first -- here -- we separate the two ports.