Chrome is trash, download Firefox and never look back.
Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported
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Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported
#42Friends don't let friends use Chrome. Use Firefox. uBlock Origin works best with Firefox: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...
Yeah, I don't get all this fuss. I mean, if you block ads then do you think Chrome will also stop reporting to the mothership? Of course not. Use Firefox and simple be done with all this hoohah.
Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
Firefox on ChromeOS sucks though. Just went through this, tried Canary, etc. Went back to Chrome.
Just ChromeOS? Firefox on Mac sucks. Here is one example: Firefox's tracking of the mouse cursor is broken, and often (yes, it's inconsistent) applies a vector translation so when trying to click something like a button or menu, the cursor needs to be about 100 x-y pixels away from the target. Only Firefox native UI is affected. These are My_First_Program.app tier bugs that should not exist in mature, 20 year old sof…
> Here is one example: Firefox's tracking of the mouse cursor is broken, and often (yes, it's inconsistent) applies a vector translation so when trying to click something like a button or menu, the cursor needs to be about 100 x-y pixels away from the target. Only Firefox native UI is affected. These are My_First_Program.app tier bugs that should not exist in mature, 20 year old software.
While I've not noticed that myself, just yesterday I noticed something similarly weird.
I had a Safari window that was persistently half the screen width and height away from where the mouse was. As in: click to drag, and the whole window jumped half the screen down and to the right, so I couldn't get it to any other quadrant of any screen. Fixed on restarting the app.
I don't know if that was an app bug or an OS bug, but in either case it's Apple's fault.
How did we get to this?
Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported
#44Just use Firefox ffs.
Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Bypass Chrome altogether. Use Firefox.
If only Mozilla (the parent organization) wasn’t horrible. Can’t a non-crazy nonprofit make a browser?
> Can’t a non-crazy nonprofit make a browser?
Here’s to hoping LadyBird remains non crazy and can be relevant by the time of their planned alpha release in 2026.
Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
and its really easy on MacOS, you just have to run defaults write com.google.Chrome.plist ExtensionManifestV2Availability -int 2 Another case where windows makes simple things unnecessarily cumbersome
You can’t edit config files on Windows from the terminal? Not really an expert but PowerShell always seemed kind of more “powerful” and/or complex than bash
Powershell is more equivalent to Python than BASH TBH
Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
If only Mozilla (the parent organization) wasn’t horrible. Can’t a non-crazy nonprofit make a browser?
What's so horrible about it? I don't like how they're pampering to the ad industry now but other than that I think they're pretty decent.
If I donate to your project I hope the money goes towards your project. If you spend it on beer or buy Jacuzzi I'm happy too. If you chose to spend it on other projects ill be excited to learn what they are.
https://future.mozilla.org/projects/
Do you use any of that? Is there anything there I should be using? (honest question) It seems premature to donate to things I don't know.
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I'm very biased no doubt, it reads like I donate to progress the commercial web, more canned template websites, product SEO and to promote the use of google analytics. I'm sure it is awesome to some people, to me it is the opposite, I'm sure it is a project that should exist some place but I don't want to pay for it.
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Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported
#48That definitely shows why Google isn't abusing its monopoly powers, and why it shouldn't be broken up.
It’s so weird to observe how Alphabet doesn’t seem to even try to keep its parts separated. Amazon at least tries keeps its companies separated from each other. AWS account teams doesn’t know what Amazon teams do and vice versa. While Google Cloud account team constantly gets involved with Workspaces, Ads and Google Play related stuff. If I remember right just few years ago Google was told to stop giving cheaper pric…
> While Google Cloud account team constantly gets involved with Workspaces, Ads and Google Play related stuff.
Not sure what you mean. Do you have a couple of concrete examples of that?
> If I remember right just few years ago Google was told to stop giving cheaper prices on Google Cloud based on customers Ads and Google Play revenue.
This one you've definitely just made up.
Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Firefox on ChromeOS sucks though. Just went through this, tried Canary, etc. Went back to Chrome.
Just ChromeOS? Firefox on Mac sucks. Here is one example: Firefox's tracking of the mouse cursor is broken, and often (yes, it's inconsistent) applies a vector translation so when trying to click something like a button or menu, the cursor needs to be about 100 x-y pixels away from the target. Only Firefox native UI is affected. These are My_First_Program.app tier bugs that should not exist in mature, 20 year old sof…
Been using Firefox as my browser since 0.2 (Minefield, Phoenix was later) on Mac since around 10.3 and I don’t recognise what you’re seeing at all?