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Re: A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web Store

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Firefox with the containers extensions powers all of my browsing. In a bewildering turn of events, Microsoft Edge Dev powers my more intricate development needs.

I am embarrassed to admit I hadn't heard of containers. Nice to see it is a Mozilla extension. I am giving it a test right now.

Re: A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web Store

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Firefox with the containers extensions powers all of my browsing. In a bewildering turn of events, Microsoft Edge Dev powers my more intricate development needs.

Same here - FF for general web browsing and Microsoft Edge Dev for dev tooling on Windows. I haven't uninstalled Chrome completely yet but that day is quickly approaching.

Re: A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web Store

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Odd - my experience is the opposite. FF is noticeably slower than Chrome, and my Chrome installation is loaded with extensions, unlike Firefox. Phoronix's tests seem to back my experience as well. From 4 days ago: "As for the Firefox vs. Chrome performance, Google's web browser continues generally delivering better performance." https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=firefox6...

Firefox scroll lags like 500ms behind my input, on my mbp. How does anyone live like that?

By disabling smooth scrolling (available in settings). Feels much snappier to me

Re: A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web Store

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Odd - my experience is the opposite. FF is noticeably slower than Chrome, and my Chrome installation is loaded with extensions, unlike Firefox. Phoronix's tests seem to back my experience as well. From 4 days ago: "As for the Firefox vs. Chrome performance, Google's web browser continues generally delivering better performance." https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=firefox6...

Firefox scroll lags like 500ms behind my input, on my mbp. How does anyone live like that?

I usually scroll with the spacebar which doesn't appear to have any lag to me.

Re: A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web Store

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Edge on Chromium is a great browser! Been using it for three months now and am never going back. Also, while I am here, you should all be using a Pi Hole instead of uBlock Origin anyway. Much less detectable by sites, covers all of your devices... Seriously, spend the 1 hour it takes to set up the Pi Hole - you won’t regret it.

Pi-hole is a basically a glorified DNS filter. While it's great for blocking DNS names across all devices on your network, it is not a replacement for browser plugins like uBlock Origin.

Re: A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web Store

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It's time to switch to Firefox as my main web browser. It's faster and generally more efficient than Chrome plus it has the most important extensions. The most surprising thing is that the Android version of Firefox is excellent. So good that I switched from Chrome a few months ago when this expected news first dropped. No ads on mobile is awesome.

Unfortunately the Android version of Firefox is unusably crashy on my phone (moto z play) and noticeably slower.

I gave it a hard try, but it just wasn't workable.

Still using Firefox on all desktop/laptop devices, though.

Re: A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web Store

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It's time to switch to Firefox as my main web browser. It's faster and generally more efficient than Chrome plus it has the most important extensions. The most surprising thing is that the Android version of Firefox is excellent. So good that I switched from Chrome a few months ago when this expected news first dropped. No ads on mobile is awesome.

Odd - my experience is the opposite. FF is noticeably slower than Chrome, and my Chrome installation is loaded with extensions, unlike Firefox. Phoronix's tests seem to back my experience as well. From 4 days ago: "As for the Firefox vs. Chrome performance, Google's web browser continues generally delivering better performance." https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=firefox6...

I would interpret efficiency in terms of resource usage, not just clock time.

Re: A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web Store

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Not surprised, but a bit baffled why they allowed for uBO for such a long time in the first place? It looks as if they misused the community's products and trust to build their monopoly and then kick us out once it's gotten hard enough to compete. Perhaps this is a good thing in the long run, because now people will finally have to switch and maybe contribute to improving Firefox. I am hopeful, but also I must say in…

> quality Yeah, that feature is a must. /s Saying "quality" doesn't actually mean anything. What exactly is "quality" in this case?

You are going to love Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
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