I am constantly surprised that anyone is surprised by this.
A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web Store
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Re: A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web Store
#192It'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.
Only downside to Firefox mobile is its crummy tab management. Especially when browsing in landscape mode it takes an incredibly long swipe to dismiss a tab. I don't think I go a week without yelling "oh my God, go away!" at my phone after failing to close a tab after multiple tries.
While I agree the swipe is too long sometimes, there is still an "X" above every tab
Re: A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web Store
#193It'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.
I'm using Firefox for a while now (both on desktop and mobile) and I love it. The only missing part for me on Android is that Firefox doesn't open native apps (YouTube, maps, Instagram etc..) when you open a link. The integration with built in apps like chrome has is not there.
I highly recommend Firefox preview. It's really fast, no ads and trackers blocked without extensions. They also put the address bar at the bottom which is so much better.
Re: A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web Store
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Even better reason to push for independent browser engines like Gecko (Firefox).
And that’s fine. But anytime HN users start whining “monopoly” the next thing they start screaming is for government to intervene every time that Google/Apple/Amazon doesn’t something that they don’t like.
Oh, don't worry, the government, or atleast the EU, should intervene and force Google to split Chrome into an independent organization.
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De facto means something in the eyes of the law. Where did you get it from that it doesn't? > Are we going to say that the government can tell businesses what is allowed in its own store? Yes, we definitely are. If there's a monopoly and the monopolist is blocking people from participating, of course we can get the courts involved. Just google all the antitrust cases about Microsoft, Google and Apple, among others. R…
Is Google “blocking” anyone from using Firefox, or IE? So now are we just going to make commonly understood words like “price” mean completely random things?
Oh jesus, read more about de facto monopolies and antitrust cases please.
Re: A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web Store
#196Re: A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web Store
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I see this all the time and I think it is unhelpful to make these kinds of statements. I can make a counterpoint that I've used FF on Android for years and never experienced any issues whatsoever. I am not trying invalidate your experience, but want to point out anecdotes don't really paint a fair picture for either side of the argument. For example, how do we know my good experience and your bad experience are not e…
But, the comment wasn't speaking in a generalization, just why they themselves don't use Firefox on Android while also indicating the exact device. It doesn't seem there was any argument being made, just that they seem a little disappointed that it doesn't work well on their specific device and they wanted to add that to the conversation. Honestly, every bug/glitch/criticism is important, even if it doesn't affect a…
The feedback of "Android version of Firefox is unusably crashy on my phone" is not something any developer can take action on. There are no example sites, no steps to recreate. I agree it should be in the bug tracker, but adding anecdotes without specifics does not add much to the conversation nor does it help to move FF forward. Are we arguing all users of this specific device experience the same issues as this user? If not, not even the device model is helpful. As I pointed out, I was not trying to stifle feedback but to point out that for every "FF is too slow" complaint there are just as many "works fine for me comments" that are equally useless. How is FF slow, in what use cases, how cane we recreate these problems? That is worthy of a bug report and if that information is available submit it to FF to make the software better rather than complaining on a thread about Chrome removing a useful extension that FF supports fully across platforms.
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I'm not sure I see the relevance of this. Could you elaborate?
That IE didn’t set the standards anymore by 2010. By then, you had to be compatible with iPhones and by the end of the year iPads. And it wasn’t big daddy government that killed IE’s stranglehold....
There was a brief time when IE and FF were about even. Around the time when a lot of developers just gave up and stopped supporting IE6 and IE's reputation never really recovered (and rightfully so).
Shortly after, Chrome hit the lead and never looked back.
Flash was already falling out of favour as html5 emerged, making it irrelevant.
iPads and iPhones were influential in the birth of the mobile-first philosophy but not in the decline of IE.
IE never really set standards, in fact the big complaint about it always was how non- compliant it was.
Of course the government didn't kill IE. It died because of arrogance and short sightedness.
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It's really annoying. If you have a matching app installed there's an Android icon in the URL bar to open it in that app instead, but it's an extra step.
I'm glad it behaves like that because for me it's really annoying when the browser throws me out to another app (especially youtube, which is so much better with adblock in the browser).
Maps is the main app that I wish would open automatically. Each time someone shares a location with me or if I need to drive somewhere it's very lengthy to open the native app. Sometimes the address doesn't stick and I need to type it again.
Re: A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web Store
#200Use Firefox. It has build-in ad blocker.