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Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users

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Post by the_pwner224 »

mediocrejoker wrote: post #128
Improvotter wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The only thing I'm missing on Firefox is when I am on my Macbook, is that fling when using my touchpad. It's essential to any MacOS app and it feels weird not to have it. I'm used to it on Linux and Windows though.

By fling, do you mean the two-finger horizontal scroll to move back and forward through history? If so, I miss it too.

I've enabled this on my Linux laptops (settings are the same regardless of OS) to get that functionality in FF:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Touchpad_Synaptics#Fire...

Re: Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users

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Post by Aeolun »

irrational wrote: post #85

I don't get it. I've used Firefox and Chrome for years. Firefox is easily as good and capable as Chrome. The barrier to switch from Chrome to Firefox is almost non-existent. Is Google counting on the majority of people not being knowledgeable enough or motivated enough to switch browsers?

Unfortunately, my Firefox on Ubuntu just keeps claiming more and more memory until it runs out and freezes the system.

I don’t want to use Chrome, but I still wouldn’t call that very great.

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Post by throwaway2048 »

microcolonel wrote: post #153
ljm wrote: post #98

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This is why it’s so unfortunate and frustrating that people are depending so much on Chromium/Blink. Electron, various browsers that are just skins over the embedded framework... We were still dealing with legacy IE6 (and IE 7/8 by that point also) in 2013! Almost a decade since we got Firefox and the first version of Chrome. The web has empirically suffered through homogeneity and the lack of strong competitors in t…

> This is why it’s so unfortunate and frustrating that people are depending so much on Chromium/Blink Chromium is generally fine, until Google packages it as Chrome. The issues are not inherent to Chromium, they're failures of principle at Google. I know people like the idea, in concept, of engine diversity on the web, but the alternatives are terrible. Anyone who says that Firefox runs anywhere near as well as Chrom…

The same people that work on chrome work on chromium, and both are owned by Google.

Chromium is where this change is originating, not chrome.

Re: Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users

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Post by ineedasername »

irrational wrote: post #85

I don't get it. I've used Firefox and Chrome for years. Firefox is easily as good and capable as Chrome. The barrier to switch from Chrome to Firefox is almost non-existent. Is Google counting on the majority of people not being knowledgeable enough or motivated enough to switch browsers?

>or motivated enough to switch browsers

Yep, to be honest this is probably me. I use UBo, but I'm willing to make do with less effective rule-based blockers as long as the most obnoxious and intrusive ads are blocked.

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Post by King-Aaron »

joshschreuder wrote: post #143
milkytron wrote: post #90

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One of my favorite things with Firefox is the ability to “edit and resend” requests in the browser devtools. I’m sure there are plugins that do something similar on chrome/chromium. But I use it all the time and my colleagues are always blown away when I show them this.

Whoa, never knew that was a thing. I found FF's dev tools quite bulky and clunky in the past, but I might have to give it another go.

That's the only reason I keep falling back to Chrome, the dev tools are just so much more refined.

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Post by Aeolun »

jedberg wrote: post #47
asymmetric wrote: post #17

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Firefox has session restore, which also works when the browser is closed abruptly. Is it now working for you?

Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it just restores some of the tabs and windows. It's really inconsistent. Also it lacks the granularity of session buddy, which has a list of every tab and window configuration I've ever had.

Firefox has this if you are using a Firefox account at least.

If you search around a bit in the sidebar menu you’ll find a list of all the open and previously open tabs on any of your PC’s. Including ability to restore all of them at once.

Not sure if it’s quite the same thing.

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Post by bigjimmyk3 »

teh_klev wrote: post #165

For work stuff I rely on multiple profiles for different client work (I use about ten of them...so far) and so I stick with Chrome. If Mozilla didn't have such a demented mechanism to operate with multiple profiles then I'd happily switch from Chrome. This is a feature that should be upfront in the UI, not hidden behind about:profiles and it's generally janky UI and behaviour. This needs to be a first class citizen,…

Have you looked at the multi-account containers feature? I think it would do what you are looking for, and it's not restricted to google profiles.

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Post by throwaway2048 »

voldacar wrote: post #38
redwards510 wrote: post #13

Google is essentially saying that Chrome will still have the capability to block unwanted content, but this will be restricted to only paid, enterprise users of Chrome. Never heard of a paid version of Chrome before! Can anyone elaborate on this? I gotta say I'm kind of glad Google is doing this. It will force me to finally abandon Chrome, something I should have done awhile ago.

Check out Ungoogled Chromium, it's pretty great.

Chromium will still contain this change, in fact its where it will appear first.

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Post by dang »

AaronFriel wrote: post #152

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That's a serious violation of the Hacker News guidelines, which ask you to assume good faith and not to post insinuations about astroturfing or other manipulations.

People need to be free to come here and express their views regardless of who they work for, and not have their integrity called into question for doing so. HN will be much poorer if some users are allowed to hound out other users, however unintentionally. Everything I've observed on HN has shown me that the temptation to assume that the other party in a disagreement is being disingenuous is a million times greater than it should be. We all have to work against that consciously in ourselves.

If you would please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, take the spirit of this site to heart, and post in accordance with it from now on, we'd be grateful.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20045443 and marked it off-topic.

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