Add a dedicated link/icon to the filter URL

[contribucious]

^{💻 AdGuard AdBlocker Beta (Standalone) 4.1.55 on Firefox 112.0.1 — Win 10 Pro 22H2}

Hi there! As a user of both AG for Windows (on my Windows) and AG Browser extension (on my Linux traditionally, except when testing like here), I spotted an annoying difference.  

🔍 Issue Details

🪟 ᴀᴅɢᴜᴀʀᴅ ᴀᴘᴘ

! Homepage: URL is found in a given filter?       ↬  Copy homepage link will appear in the context menu  —  ᴀꜱ ᴇxᴘᴇᴄᴛᴇᴅ. ✔️

…Not found?       ↬  Nothing will appear in the context menu  —  ᴀꜱ ᴇxᴘᴇᴄᴛᴇᴅ. ✔️

🧩 ᴀᴅɢᴜᴀʀᴅ ᴇxᴛᴇɴꜱɪᴏɴ

! Homepage: URL is found in a given filter?       ↬  Go to homepage link will use this URL  —  ᴀꜱ ᴇxᴘᴇᴄᴛᴇᴅ. ✔️

…Not found?       ↬  Go to homepage link will use the filter URL instead (as a fallback)  —  ʜᴍ …… 💭

 

💡 Proposed solution

🧩 ᴀᴅɢᴜᴀʀᴅ ᴇxᴛᴇɴꜱɪᴏɴ

• [ᴏᴘᴛɪᴏɴᴀʟ] Migrate the Go to homepage link to a graphical 🏠 Home icon (going to Homepage) and
• add a graphical 🧾 File code icon (going to Filter URL).

… ↷

• First one will appear only if a Homepage line is found in the filter;  —  (Consistently with the app.)
• Second will always exist, at the very least for Custom filters.  —  (To be added in the app too, see below.)
• ʙᴏᴛʜ ꜱʜᴏᴜʟᴅ ʙᴇ ᴏᴋ ʀᴇɢᴀʀᴅɪɴɢ ᴀᴄᴄᴇꜱꜱɪʙɪʟɪᴛʏ ᴀɴᴅ ʙᴇ ᴛᴀʙʙᴀʙʟᴇ.

🪟 ᴀᴅɢᴜᴀʀᴅ ᴀᴘᴘ

Either:

• replace the current Copy homepage link entry with a new Copy… entry containing the submenus Homepage link and Filter URL or
• … just add a new root entry Copy filter URL.

That is to say, an enhancement of this issue — but I will open a dedicated issue linked to mine on this repo if you like my idea. ✔️

 

📷 Screenshots

Reveal …

   ^{↪️ From the current situation …}  ^{↪️ To this situation (with the _current_ trash icon preserved) …}  ^{↪️ Or this **variant** situation (with the trash icon from _Fork Awesome_, just like the other two — all available [here](https://forkaweso.me/Fork-Awesome/icon/trash-o/), [here](https://forkaweso.me/Fork-Awesome/icon/home/) and [there](https://forkaweso.me/Fork-Awesome/icon/file-code-o/) and set to 80% opacity) …}  ^{↪️ **BONUS:** Animated version for comparison between the two versions …}

[contribucious]

Remark

Because of the complexity of my issue relating to formatting for clarity, I tested replacing this link by this one — that is, no template applied (performed myself very closely) but the label(s) still applied.

↪️ However, the https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardBrowserExtension/labels/Feature%20Request label does not seem to have applied (due to no template set visibly). Sorry for that. ☺️

[tumatanquang]

I feel it is not too useful, having too many symbols, images,... Only makes the layout confused, reduces performance and consumes more capacity and memory. 😕

[contribucious]

@tumatanquang Hi! 🙂

Note that 3 icons will only appear in the "Custom" section. Only two otherwise (because the trash can icon does not appear elsewhere); … in fact, probably one only (as the Source icon pointing to the filter URL is slightly less useful for built-in filters).

However, as an alternative, we can also imagine a "three dots" menu including Homepage and Source. To keep a layout more similar to the current one. And then having the same — or very similar — consistent access to that in the desktop AdGuard app too, but there, via the right-click context menu on a given filter.