Consider forcing a reload of the extension when filters have to be reloaded about ublock

[gorhill]

Need to look into this more, to find out whatever can mitigate the memory footprint climbing when all filters are reloading. Somehow it appears a lot of stuff are stuck in chromium's GC tree. Restarting the extension would probably solve this, but this has the annoying (I suppose) side effect of the extension's tab being closed. Advantage: very simple to implement, I could just add another apply button named Apply changes and restart.

This would be great indeed.

[kikaxa]

side effect of the extension's tab being closed

Then reopen it after reload? One more permission, though.

[gorhill]

With ee81436#diff-6, it is now an even more attractive idea, had the net filters with a visible counterparts can be applied on already opened web pages when uBlock is launched.

The best time to re-launch would be after a selfie has been generated.

[gorhill]

Idea discarded.