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uBlock should really just instruct users to "switch to firefox for a fast, up-to-date ad-blocking experience"
Yes we can ditch chrome. But what about general population? Now that websites may choose to give incompatiblity prompts to Firefox since it impacts there revenue through ads. They will ask users to switch to chrome. This might affect Firefox in long run. It's market share might drop.
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> smaller players to come together and form an open-source working group based on a chromium fork Google can and does use DRM to block even this from happening: https://blog.samuelmaddock.com/posts/google-widevine-blocked... Even Mozilla needed to license Widevine from Google to support modern video: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-drm Based on the policy evidenced in Maddock's post, it seems impossible t…
Well maybe we don't really need DRM? I mean, there are other sources of entertainment which do not threaten the FOSS
These responses... Dont support amazon or netflix, twitch? Even FOSS needs to be realistic and see what is a solution and what is not.
A FOSS product needs to support the things people want to do. Otherwise it will not succeed. We should have learned this in the last twenty years.
Without Firefox and its compromises, Google would have 99% market share and FOSS people would browse wuth Lynx or wget
Opera has it built-in to the browser so I think they'll be safe too.
Wonder if this will apply to Chromium or just Google Chrome?
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You can't embed Gecko? Patently false. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Gecko/Embed...
Disclaimer: Work for Mozilla but not on the browser core, thoughts are my own, grain of salt, etc. My understanding is that on Desktop it's much more difficult than it ideally should be. With that said we've got a pretty solid story being worked on for mobile via GeckoView [1] and Android Components [2], there's a post on the Mozilla Hacks blog about our use of them in Focus [3] and they're also what is being used fo…
The truth is the browsers are complicated beasts these days for better or worst and so goes the complexity of building and depending on them.
Slightly off topic, I'm finding it very disingenuous that people in this thread(and any other threads that come up about Firefox) have actually had significant performance issues with Firefox. No bugs that are noteworthy, sans that fiasco with the expired certificate that disabled addons briefly. I've been using Firefox since "quantum" on both my MacBooks(one of which is old AF) and on Linux. I've yet to have problem…
Firefox lost its only advantage when it deprecated its more powerful extension APIs in favor of WebExtensions.
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The only thing I miss is the ease which you can create and use different profiles in Chrome. Facilitates testing web apps. Firefox's support of multiple profiles is kludgy.
Have you tried firefox's container extension? A more light weight, but easy to use separation of "profiles"
I agree with GP. Chrome profiles are what’s stopped me switching to FF.
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Yep, I'm about to ditch Chrome altogether now. I gritted my teeth and just handled a few of the more bone-headed changes the Chrome team made, but this latest change is a deal breaker. The truth is, I actually don't need Chrome for anything. Firefox is faster now, gives me more freedom and has less corporate affiliations. I'll stick with Mozilla.
Out of curiosity, what would you say was the thing that still kept you on Chrome even though all of the things you said apply? Inertia due to habit?
Slightly off topic, I'm finding it very disingenuous that people in this thread(and any other threads that come up about Firefox) have actually had significant performance issues with Firefox. No bugs that are noteworthy, sans that fiasco with the expired certificate that disabled addons briefly. I've been using Firefox since "quantum" on both my MacBooks(one of which is old AF) and on Linux. I've yet to have problem…
With this latest change to Chrome it's probably time for me to give it another go. I'd love to switch, but the experience needs to be roughly on par.
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People were predicting this as the Chrome endgame years ago. It's playing out exactly as everyone cynically expected. It's time to eliminate Google from your life as much as possible if you haven't already. Too many wake up calls. They are not a tech company, they are data monopolists. Stop giving them your data.
> People were predicting this as the Chrome endgame years ago. It's playing out exactly as everyone cynically expected. Would you happen to have any links to previous discussions anticipating this exact endgame?