Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

pcworld.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

641–650 of 752 posts

Re: Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

#641

Post by uncletammy »

Gigachad wrote: post #47
avaer wrote: post #32

What's funny is that extensions were supposed to be a way to let you do the things the browser didn't want you to do. Guess that was a bit too much freedom for Google to accept, so they had to make a store with a gate, and destroy the APIs so that they're useless. Then they had to make up some reasons to justify that and ram it through the pipeline despite everyone's objections, and the frog got boiled. Now we're bac…

Browser extensions were also one of the biggest ways to distribute malware. The situation was genuinely horrific. Malware distributors would offer popular extension devs millions of dollars to buy the extension, then silently insert malware which gets auto deployed to millions of people.

Lungs are one of the most effective ways of distributing disease. You'd be shocked at how many people get sick and die because LUNGS! We should immediately do away with lungs!

Re: Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

#642

Post by humanfromearth9 »

alt227 wrote: post #524
Shank wrote: post #463

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Back when I first moved off of Firefox the answer was performance. A lot of users mass-migrated to Chrome because it supported a very similar set of extensions and was significantly more stable and performant. People like me evangelized switching to Chrome for everyone. Many copies of Chrome were installed by me. Now the performance still hasn’t caught up to Chrome but it has improved, and uBlock Origin Lite does a d…

I have used Firefox solely for over a decade. Recently I switched to Chrome to see what I was missing. I was horrified at Chromes memory bloat and the fact it puts tabs to sleep. Trying to click through old tabs was an absolute nightmare as it tried to quickly load back each tabs state and memory, and cpu spikes massively causing whole machine slowdowns, blank white pages, and app freezes. People say that Firefox doe…

orange.be doesn't work on Firefox. The support will tell you to use Chrome or Edge.

Re: Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

#643

Post by rwz »

rasz wrote: post #222
rwz wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The original uBO relies on Manifest V2, the API Chrome no longer supports. It's impossible to run full UBO (not Lite MV3 version) on current versions on Chrome.

>It's impossible to run full UBO (not Lite MV3 version) on current versions on Chrome. Current version of Chrome seems to be 152.0.7977.39 released August 14, 2026. August 14, 2026 Chromium 152.0.7977.38 based vivaldis napshot https://vivaldi.com/blog/desktop/address-field-calculator-an... has this in patch notes: "[Extensions] Re-enable and extend Manifest V2 extension support for the time being (VB-130324)"

Yeah, Vivaldi specifically is keeping MV2 alive for uBO it seems. We'll see how long they can maintain it with their small team.

Re: Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

#645

Post by cwel »

Izkata wrote: post #179
BeetleB wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In the last few months, I've seen a huge upsurge of sites that simply won't work for me in Firefox. Not sure if it's the FF + Linux combination. Should probably try with a fresh profile to confirm. It sucks, but I'm in on FF all the way. If much of the web stops working for me, it just means I have more time on my hands!

Slack "huddles" (video chat) work on everything except Firefox+Linux. Haven't tried changing my user agent yet, only just got onto Slack for work.

This one is specifically Linux (Wayland). if you set your user agent to Macintosh it will work; or at least it did a few months ago when I came across this. I've since resigned to using the electron bundle.

Google meet, Discord, Zoom all handle Mozilla/Linux. Slack hasn't figured it out yet.

Re: Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

#646

Post by timbit42 »

ImJamal wrote: post #14
timetraveller26 wrote: post #11

Firefox, after 20 years, once again has an advantage over the other browsers. Let's hope for new generations to get tired of so many ads to finally ditch chrome.

uBlock Origin Lite works decently on Chrome so I doubt this will help migration to Firefox.

It doesn't block tracking.

Re: Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

#647

Post by [deleted] »

Larrikin wrote: post #183
swed420 wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> You know you can make a browser based on Firefox's core If you want to inherit all of Firefox's flaws, I suppose. > and don't need to make a new one from scratch that'll never get past Cloudflare? Considering Cloudflare is a sponsor of Ladybird, something tells me they're going to grant an exception for it.

What flaws exactly? People on here love to moan about Firefox because Mozilla did one thing at some point in the existence of the company they didn't like. But then just cede the Internet to Google and chromium clones because at some point when they were a crappy junior JS dev, Chrome had some better tooling over Firebug so they just got used to testing in one browser. Maybe they also like to remember how Firefox, a…

[deleted]

Re: Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

#649

Post by eek2121 »

benatkin wrote: post #158
gurjeet wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Complete, authoritative list of Firefox extensions officially recommended by Mozilla. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?promoted=re... Some quite informative discussion on Firefox subreddit when I discovered and posted the above list there a few months ago. https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1pyvx2v/complete_a... The Recommended Extensions program description: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/k…

I seem to remember TamperMonkey being on there but not ViolentMonkey, which I didn't agree with. However, I see neither of them on there. Both are available but not recommended. I wonder what is going on with that.

I suspect they no longer recommend either because either can download/execute scripts that Mozilla can't review, and the recommended extensions are reviewed, so they don't want to give users the wrong impression.

I could be wrong, however.

Re: Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

#650

Post by aucisson_masque »

matheusmoreira wrote: post #380
aucisson_masque wrote: post #328

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Hate to be the one to defend Google here, but the reasons weren't that unreasonable. I want my browser to prevent random extensions from directly reading web page data. The declarative API idea is pretty good. Don't kid yourself, even with mv3 if you install a rogue extension it's going to have access to a lot more data than you would be comfortable sharing to.

Yes, which is why it is important to lock such things down.

You can't trust a code that you didn't audit before. End of story.

What you are asking for is simply impossible, even without any permissions rogue extensions can still do a lot. It's what some developers spend their entire time working on.

If Google couldn't fix it with Android, which has granular permission per applications, why do you think it's going to be even remotely effective on the web browser ?

Post reply on HN