Failed to add the new rule.

[ForeverFloating]

I added 227 websites to PawBlock, but once I tried adding another site, it gave me the error "Failed to add the new rule" at the top of the options page for the extension. I can add any site if the number of total sites is under 227, but I cannot seem to resolve the issue without deleting already blocked websites from the list to reduce the total number below 227.

[dguo]

Hi, thanks for reporting. I'll try to reproduce the issue and get to the bottom of it.

[dguo]

This is happening due to Chrome limiting the amount of storage space available for each key in the storage object (where the extension persists data).

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13373187/can-i-increase-quota-bytes-per-item-in-chrome

It makes sense that there is an overall limit, but I'm curious as to why they would limit the amount of space per key. Firefox doesn't seem to do that.

The workaround seems to be to split it into multiple keys. I'd also have to only do it on Chrome because the constant (chrome.storage.sync.QUOTA_BYTES_PER_ITEM) is only available there. It seems like a messy but worthwhile solution since wanting to add more than 227 rules is reasonable.

I'll try to get to it within the next week or two.

[dguo]

Note to self: I should also improve the error message. There is a hard limit to the total space available, and the user should be informed that they can't add any more due to lack of space.