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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 afterburner »

alistproducer2 wrote: post #260
tomrod wrote: post #128

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If any firefox devs are reading this - Can you please make this a default? - Can you please fix text rendering on mobile? Sites like reddit render at desktop resolution on mobile screen, and there is no clear text sizing that works. With Chrome I just set my size option and move on with life.

Can we just say it? Reddit's redesigne has made it measurably less performant and harder to us. Nothing happens when u press a link for about half a second. They clearly switched to some kind of spa but I don't understand why.

It's why I usually use the old i.reddit.com

I mean if their crappy mobile site encourages you to switch to their annoying app, I guess they consider it mission accomplished?

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

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Post by catalogia »

_-o-_ wrote: post #147
unityByFreedom wrote: post #95

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Same. Plus, even with Brave, you'd still need to install the latest uBO from github, so there's no benefit aside from "I hate Google but I'll still use a fork of their open source browser"

Is there anything that uBO blocks that isn't covered by Brave's integrated adblocker?

Yes,

uBO is a wide-spectrum blocker, not merely an adblocker. It has powerful context-sensitive blocking that's surpassed only by uMatrix (also from gorhill), as well as cosmetic filters that I find invaluable for cleaning up the dumpster fire being passed off as "the web" these days.

Floating header bar that follows you down the page of an article you're trying to read, wasting your vertical screen space? Remove it permanently with uBO's cosmetic filters and never see it again. Tired of the sidebar with links to clickbait articles on the site? Cosmetic filter. Wikipedia nagging for donations despite a history of irresponsible spending and ample cash reserves? Cosmetic filter.

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

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Post by StevePerkins »

NelsonMinar wrote: post #344
burtonator wrote: post #311

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Firefox is really dying compared to Chrome but I honestly think this is going to cause it to rebound. People aren't going to be happy without uBlock and Ad Block... Google has been REALLY dropping the ball in the last 2-5 years. What's a NEW Google product that you actually like (that they didn't acquire)? They literally CAN NOT build new products that people like. ... all their hardware products suck. New things lik…

Not sure what you mean about Firefox dying; the software is the best it's ever been, relative to other browsers. The market numbers are still down though.

Well, OS/2 was the best operating system I ever used. But "life" is a matter of useage.

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

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Post by minusSeven »

ravenstine wrote: post #219
radicalbyte wrote: post #6

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.

Anyone thinking of installing Firefox should check out the Multi-Account Containers addon. I'm pretty sure such functionality doesn't exist for Chrome, and it makes it possible to isolate different sites and logins from each other. It's one of the best reasons to switch to Firefox, in my opinion.

Does this work on mobile?

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

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Post by ahartmetz »

tasty_freeze wrote: post #233
opencl wrote: post #172

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It is enabled by default for a small subset of system configurations (Windows desktop machines with AMD or NVIDIA GPU).

The matrix is more complicated. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/GFX/WebRender_Where In some configurations you have to set a config flag to enable it.

Hey, I think this site's audience is technical enough that it's okay to just give them the name of the option: about:config -> gfx.webrender.all -> true

Go to about:support and search for WebRender to check if it worked.

Works great for me with Kubuntu 19.10 / Mesa / AMD. It didn't work when I tried it a couple of months ago.

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

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Post by tjpnz »

wipash wrote: post #343
tjpnz wrote: post #338

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I switched to Firefox for Android after several attempts by DoubleClick to infect my device with malware. Funnily enough Chrome does ship with a setting which makes this kind of hijacking a lot harder. It was off by default and hidden in an obscure menu that wasn't accessible via the UI. Enabling it for everyone would probably lose them too much ad revenue I suspect.

Could you please share what this setting is, and how to access it?

It was one of the options under chrome://flags and I don't recall which - this was more than 6 months ago now.

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

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Post by MiroF »

agumonkey wrote: post #27

Few monthes ago I forced myself to fully drop Chromium. Painful. But I don't have chrome on any laptops (only my smartphone). I don't regret it. Google is stringing bad news after bad news.

I've switched to Firefox but I have to keep a chrome engine browser (Brave) because some websites just refuse to work.

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

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Post by knasmai »

jetrink wrote: post #234
jokoon wrote: post #43

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what was painful?

Having switched to Firefox three months ago, the three things that I miss most are, 1. The integration with Google Translate, which I understand would be difficult for Firefox to replicate 2. The ability to right-click on an image to search by image, which is probably similarly difficult to add to Firefox. [Edit: Thanks, vatueil, I will give that a try.] 3. How Chrome is less picky about what text it identifies as a…

I'll also have to add for Mac

4. no Picture-In-Picture support, and 5. no native trackpad zoom support

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