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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

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Post by catalogia »

KuhlMensch wrote: post #20
fishtacos wrote: post #14

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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...

Agreed. Plus it doesnt have Picture-in-picture But I use FF as my main

I recommend using the "Open With" extension with mpv. This allows you to right click on any sort of video link that youtube-dl supports and launch that link in mpv. mpv has a "stay on top" feature that can be enabled by default when mpv is invoked in this way. The result is picture-in-picture that supports virtually every video site on the net.

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

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Post by zrobotics »

Ygg2 wrote: post #251
peterangular wrote: post #240

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Even simple stuff like finding text on a page... I use the highlighting of occurrences in the scrollbar WAY more than I ever realized. The breaking point for me to go back to Chrome a few months back was Mapbox was chewing up SO MUCH MORE resources in FF. As someone who does a lot of GIS dev in Mapbox that was a no-go =/

So, if you had piece of software that worked fine on Windows and ran like crap on Linux, you would blame Linux?

Historically that has been seen as a Linux issue- while I agree its frustrating that web developers don't always test with Firefox, games/software not working on Linux was something the Linux community tried to fix with projects like WINE. Even now, Valve is doing more work for Linux compatibility for games than most studios.

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

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Post by Ygg2 »

rvnx wrote: post #63
rvnx wrote: post #48

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One of the main "advantages" (for Google) of manifest v3, is that there is, not only a blacklist, but also a whitelist of domains bundled with Google Chrome. So the logic is to restrict adblockers, to use the internal Chrome adblock so Google can decide what ads are acceptable or not. An independent study shows that YouTube ads and Search Ads are the ones that the users enjoy the most and wouldn't want to block ;)

Link to the results: https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/4231068/Mobile-Web-Ad-Experie... Of course, everybody loves video ads, don't we all ?

Yeah. I especially love 1hr 35min ad on a 5min video. /Sarcasm

But search ads are ok. Since you can both ignore them easily and are often the thing you look for.

Video ads are annoying interuptions I hate with passion of a burning sun.

Most site ads are just sleazy shit, that serves as vector for malicious actors. I hate that with passion of an exploding supernova.

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

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Post by Godel_unicode »

okcando wrote: post #242
CharlesW wrote: post #153

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> Hold on I'm going to pick the one that's marginally faster and more ram efficient... In both cases, people are choosing products because they're better. "Better" for most favors properties of the product. "Better" for you favors the politics of the product. Both are completely valid approaches.

Eeeehhh... He's arguing for principles and I'm not comfortable with the claim that not having principles is every bit as valid as having them.

It's a pretty big leap from someone not sharing your exact principles to them not having principles at all.

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

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Post by catalogia »

adrianN wrote: post #116
dustingetz wrote: post #38

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

Something must be weird with your machine. My mbp is from 2009 and Firefox scrolls smoothly.

It's smooth as butter on my early 2015 macbook air too. I suspect the issue is related to "retina" screens, which I don't have. (a 2009 mbp doesn't either iirc, right?)

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Post by fireattack »

mirkules wrote: post #99
sgc wrote: post #51

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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.

Hah, this is a really cool feature. For about two years, I managed this with multiple Firefox profiles instead, but this is a nicer integration.

Multiple-profile still has its advantage. Unfortunately it is pretty inconvenient to do so on Firefox now after the revamp (pre-57 there are plenty of extensions for that). It is much easier on Chrome, ironically.

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

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Post by keyme »

michaelmrose wrote: post #94
torben-friis wrote: post #18

I wonder if it's been on purpose or just, as always, their automatic algorithms being imposible to contest when they're wrong. Honestly, Google's (and general tech giants') willingness to let people's lives be caught in the cracks of their algorithms in their pursue for scalability scares me more than any ideology they could push. More and more, we're seeing developers and content creators being banned or demonetised…

No dating app represents most of your chance to meet people. I don't believe that you have a meaningful right to use a website.

Couple that with geographic constraints and I guarantee you that's true somewhere in the world.

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Post by visarga »

k__ wrote: post #139
diimdeep wrote: post #88

Have been using Firefox Nightly for few weeks as only browser. Rock solid. Can recommend few extensions - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-tab-disc... - http://www.one-tab.com - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/multi-touch-z...

At the moment I only have one issue with FF. I can't use bookmarklets on pages like FB and Twitter, because of some wrong implementation of a content policiy or something like that...

My issue with FF is that it doesn't batch load the favicons after importing bookmarks from Chrome. The globe icon is fugly. The items in bookmarks are too closely spaced and look bad. It just looks like amateur hour.

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

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Post by tomxor »

torben-friis wrote: post #18

I wonder if it's been on purpose or just, as always, their automatic algorithms being imposible to contest when they're wrong. Honestly, Google's (and general tech giants') willingness to let people's lives be caught in the cracks of their algorithms in their pursue for scalability scares me more than any ideology they could push. More and more, we're seeing developers and content creators being banned or demonetised…

> I wonder if it's been on purpose or just, as always, their automatic algorithms being imposible to contest when they're wrong.

Further down the github issue, another person attempts to submit the same build recieving the same response. But then asks for clarification on the applicability to uBlock only to receive an excerpt from ToC bundling advice...

Pretty sure this is not algorithmic. As the dev said they are being stone walled.

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Post by m-p-3 »

MrOwen wrote: post #211
shubidubi wrote: post #170

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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.

That functionality is actually there. For any website that you visit where your phone also has an app to open those links in, a little Android head will appear in the address bar you and you can touch that to open with the app. Not intuitive really but it always works well once you get used to it.

I wish it was possible to configure Firefox for Android to automatically launch the native app instead of showing an Android head. It's one additional step that annoys me and slows me down, as it will needlessly load the page in Firefox instead of loading the content in the app.
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