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Is this gonna kill Adblock or not? Heard different things at different times about manifest 3
It won't kill adblockers, but severely limit their functionality in the face of increasingly elaborate advertising techniques
Is this gonna kill Adblock or not? Heard different things at different times about manifest 3
Is there an easy way to run two profiles of firefox simultaneously? As it stands I use FF with a bunch of extensions that limit what it can do (uMatrix, cookie zappers, etc.) and then occasionally when I just want to quickly view something I open it in chromium (and I also use it for youtube). But if they're going to cripple ad blockers (among other things) I'd rather just do it all in firefox
Start one of them with
firefox.exe -p profile_name -no-remote
More details here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-...
Some absolutely cavalier bombastic bullshit that Google is going to finally send a messenger to the WebExtensions working group like a week or two before they shut off capable MV2[1], having never ever replied to any of the massive massive outpourings of dismay, sadness, & hatred. Just dogshit apocalypically bad mishandling, complete & utter trashfire stewardship. This is the most trust-breaking saddening enraging th…
If I were to look anywhere, it might be at how Apple is trying to claim the ability to sideload apps on an iPhone would lead to the destruction of modern civilization as part of their war on general purpose computers.
And Google has been clear for a very long time that v2 was being phased out, so what gives? Laziness? Inertia?
The only hope is that other Chromium derivatives like Edge and Brave continue supporting v2. Considering Microsoft's history, I doubt they are going to be the resistance against ads. Brave has a bright future ahead, I feel.
More generally, Brave's attitude towards Chromium changes has been "disable first, ask questions later", even when it hurts forward-looking developers and useful feature adoption [1]. In the case of the file system API, there's also a possible conflict of interest, given how they're pushing IPFS and the rest of the crypto web bullshit. My biggest gripe with them is that most of their development efforts go into developing the cryptocurrency features and they end up neglecting general browser usability and innovation.
It's been puzzling to me just how slow developers have been to adopt v3. Even right now if you look at a brand new extension created yesterday, or read a chrome extension tutorial from last week...they completely ignore the new manifest requirements. And Google has been clear for a very long time that v2 was being phased out, so what gives? Laziness? Inertia?
Is there an easy way to run two profiles of firefox simultaneously? As it stands I use FF with a bunch of extensions that limit what it can do (uMatrix, cookie zappers, etc.) and then occasionally when I just want to quickly view something I open it in chromium (and I also use it for youtube). But if they're going to cripple ad blockers (among other things) I'd rather just do it all in firefox
firefox -P
whenever you launch it you'll be presented with a dialog to pick a profile or create a new one.
Firefox also hasn't released MV3 support yet so extensions that are cross-browser can't be MV3, which will be really annoying when Chrome no longer accepts MV2 extensions.
I ran into this just yesterday when I tried to release an extension that removes those stupid fixed banners that take up vertical screen space when you're trying to read an article (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/remove-floati..., https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/remove-floating-ba...). I tried to convert it to MV3 only to test on Firefox and find out it doesn't support MV3 :(
I also run https://extensionpay.com which lets developers easily take payments in their extensions without writing their own backend or paying for server costs. A lot of the developers using ExtensionPay in their extensions default to using MV3 since that's what Google says they should do, despite its limitations. It's a really sad state of affairs.