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Re: Pausing Manifest V2 phase-out changes

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Post by jjav »

xchkr1337 wrote: post #56
kej wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can just do this anyway, you know. Firefox is pretty great these days.

I wish Mozilla focused more on Linux support. I tried switching to Firefox multiple times, and in day-to-day use I always keep running into unfixable problems like bad font rendering, slow webgl performance, ui glitches etc. Problems like this never happen when I'm using Firefox on Windows, and honestly the state of Firefox on Linux is kind of surprising since it's the most commonly recommended and preinstalled brows…

> I wish Mozilla focused more on Linux support.

FWIW I use Firefox on Linux every day and haven't particularly noticed any difference from Firefox on Mac. Works pretty awesome on both.

Re: Pausing Manifest V2 phase-out changes

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Post by jjav »

flatiron wrote: post #99
jiggawatts wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not just Google, all of Silicon Valley. Here on HN, I regularly see comments along the lines of: "Wait, do people actually still use Windows on servers!?" Yes, yes they do.

In the last 10 years I haven’t had a single contract dealing with a windows server. Im sure that someone somewhere does indeed use it. But it’s gotta be 90%+ now a days Linux.

> In the last 10 years I haven’t had a single contract dealing with a windows server.

Windows is exceedingly rare, from a Silicon Valley perspective. The sales people often (not always) ask for windows laptops, but that's it. Everyone else is Mac or Linux. Servers are 100% Linux in the last decade, before that it was either Linux or Solaris. I've never encountered a windows server in 25+ years in the field and never used it myself for anything other than gaming.

Re: Pausing Manifest V2 phase-out changes

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Post by tomjen3 »

Diggsey wrote: post #23

Manifest V3 is a perfect example of "great idea but terrible execution". The ability to have extension pages be suspended when not in use is great. Improving (and having finer grained) permissions is great. It should have stopped there: introduce a new "persistent" permission that extensions can request to stay around permanently, and when not requested, introduce lifecycle events so extensions can properly handle su…

The problem with being able to request permissions is that the extensions will then not work without it. So in reality you often don't have a choice.

Ultimately of course, it is folly to assume you can have privacy with a browser made by an ad company.

Re: Pausing Manifest V2 phase-out changes

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Post by phailhaus »

qwertox wrote: post #44

> As we head towards Manifest V3 migration, we are intently monitoring comments from the developer community to help inform our timelines. Here's some feedback: If uBlock Origin loses full control over what gets loaded and what not, I will immediately uninstall Chrome from all my and my family's devices and switch back to Firefox, after a decade of using Chrome as the main browser. I will then also recommend the excl…

Because honestly, there's not that many people like you. They know this.

Re: Pausing Manifest V2 phase-out changes

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Post by jacooper »

suddenclarity wrote: post #110
jacooper wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Switch to brave, a browser that unlike firefox has privacy actually by default.

A browser that injected affiliate links and is pushing crypto. I'm not sure if Brave is the solution.

No longer does any of this.

Re: Pausing Manifest V2 phase-out changes

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Post by nozzlegear »

darreninthenet wrote: post #104
nozzlegear wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My biggest complaint with Firefox on macOS is the lack of support for native picture-in-picture. They implement their own version that doesn’t stay visible when you swap between the virtual desktops; won’t overlay on top of full screen applications; and can’t be moved across monitors (iirc) either.

Now that's weird as PIP in FF always worked fine for me - including swapping between desktops and full screen. In fact I thought PIP in Chrome wasn't as well implemented as took several more clicks to activate. Can't comment about monitors as I don't use a multi monitor setup on my Mac.

Your experience made me curious, I had to check and it looks like you're right – it does work between desktops and full screens. In fact it even works between monitors. Don't know why I thought it was in such a bad state, but I'm glad you replied. Cheers!

Re: Pausing Manifest V2 phase-out changes

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Post by vbernat »

adithyassekhar wrote: post #129
qwertox wrote: post #44

> As we head towards Manifest V3 migration, we are intently monitoring comments from the developer community to help inform our timelines. Here's some feedback: If uBlock Origin loses full control over what gets loaded and what not, I will immediately uninstall Chrome from all my and my family's devices and switch back to Firefox, after a decade of using Chrome as the main browser. I will then also recommend the excl…

If anyone from Mozilla is reading, I want to switch to Firefox. But I used to have a Firefox account with 2fa and lost my backup keys. The best part they won't even let me delete that account and start new even if I sent a mail from that same email account. I don't want to create another Gmail account just for Firefox.

Add a dot somewhere in the user part of the address. This looks like a new address but it is not.

Re: Pausing Manifest V2 phase-out changes

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Post by tjpnz »

tyingq wrote: post #16

Just fine tuning how slowly to boil the frogs. At some point, they will pull the trigger. My hypothesis is that the various entities that want to work around ad-blockers hold back for now, because they don't want to push people from the more basic blockers to the more advanced ones. Once this is in place, pretty much all adblockers of note are dns based, or semi-static list based...."basic". I wonder if there's a ren…

I don't understand this mentality. What do ad-tech companies like Google gain from showing an ad to an unwilling participant? Click through rates are going to crater and people are just going to stop using Chrome.

Re: Pausing Manifest V2 phase-out changes

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Post by reitanqild »

vbernat wrote: post #137
adithyassekhar wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If anyone from Mozilla is reading, I want to switch to Firefox. But I used to have a Firefox account with 2fa and lost my backup keys. The best part they won't even let me delete that account and start new even if I sent a mail from that same email account. I don't want to create another Gmail account just for Firefox.

Add a dot somewhere in the user part of the address. This looks like a new address but it is not.

Or, if you already have a dot, remove it.

i.e. Gmail treats

example@gmail.com

the same as

exam.ple@gmail.com

or

ex.amp.le@gmail.com

Re: Pausing Manifest V2 phase-out changes

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Post by reitanqild »

jiggawatts wrote: post #119
flatiron wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In the last 10 years I haven’t had a single contract dealing with a windows server. Im sure that someone somewhere does indeed use it. But it’s gotta be 90%+ now a days Linux.

Selection bias. Do you work in Silicon Valley, at startups, or ex-FAANG places? Are you a "Linux person" looking for work related to Linux technologies such as NGINX, MySQL, Postgres, Apache, etc...? Here in Australia it's a rare thing for me to see a Linux server. They exist, sure, but are generally in the minority. I have some self-selection biases as well, but I regularly work for large orgs with more than 10K sta…

> Selection bias. Do you work in Silicon Valley, at startups, or ex-FAANG places? Are you a "Linux person" looking for work related to Linux technologies such as NGINX, MySQL, Postgres, Apache, etc...? Here in Australia it's a rare thing for me to see a Linux server. They exist, sure, but are generally in the minority

Huh, here in Norway, for big oil service companies, for government and electricity infrastructure, the wast majority of servers I see are Linux in the cloud.

Last time I saw a Windows server was a month before the pandemic, some old stuff that I inherited from another consultant that had been squatting there since last millennium I think.

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