[Feature Request] Support for GFWlist? about firefox-extension

[ericjung]

Yes, I agree. There is another feature request for this. Old FoxyProxy (pre Firefox-57) had this feature. I will add it again, but accept pull requests for help.

[erosman]

Never mind, firefox already supports PAC file.

PAC is also supported in FoxyProxy v8.0 (once released).

[ericjung]

Yes, I can add support for that.

[Daymond]

Yes, I can add support for that.

Thanks so much.

[woosley]

Hi, I think what is needed is a common way to import whitelist pattern from url/file.

[117649]

@ericjung It has been a year now. Any light on this?

[ericjung]

Not yet, but as I said, I will accept merge requests for it.

[erosman]

Looking at one GFWlist, it has 8400+ rules.

• Pages often make 100+ of net connections (for each of its components e.g. images, CSS, etc) and checking against 8400+ rules for each of the net connection can slow down page loading and create unwanted load on CPU & RAM
• From personal experience, most users may only need or use 100 of those rules therefore including 8400+ rules that contains sites that might never be visited is not efficient
• Creating/displaying 8400+ rules will slow down the UI

[20NE]

Never mind, firefox already supports PAC file.

[ericjung]

@erosman i don’t see GWList as a PAC file anywhere. How is PAC related to this?

[erosman]

I didn't search for GWList PAC but I assumed it is available based on the previous post and the fact that it is possible to make a PAC based on GWList.
The URL for such PAC then can be entered as PAC URL in FoxyProxy v8.0

[ericjung]

Looks like it is here:
https://github.com/petronny/gfwlist2pac