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.
Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin
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I believe it is. 2% of global internet traffic.
How is 2% major though? (I wish FF was more used!)
It's in the top 5.
It isn't more used because one browser is promoted by the biggest search engine and thus has two thirds of the market, and the other two come pre-installed with the OS.
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
I believe it is. 2% of global internet traffic.
How is 2% major though? (I wish FF was more used!)
It's more than 2% when you condition on things like "lives in US" or "lives in EU" or "is using a desktop." e.g. among German desktop users it's apparently more like 20%. Most people probably aren't targeting global traffic and should never consider it since it can be extremely misleading.
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#14Firefox, 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.
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#15Anyone can build a custom extension to do anything an extension is allowed to do. I had ~7 standard extensions that I pretty much always install into chrome browser. Over the past month or so I've been using Claude code to build a single custom extension that handles all of the things I used 7 extensions for previously. One extension does everything. You can even use the existing extensions you already use as guides…
>Anyone can build a custom extension to do anything an extension is allowed to do Yes, that's why google moved to manifest v3 and extensions can't do as much.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
I believe it is. 2% of global internet traffic.
How is 2% major though? (I wish FF was more used!)
Wasn't Opera's (the good old Presto one) marketshare also 1% back then? And it was still considered major (even though it had compatibility problems mainly caused by sites ignoring the standard)
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#18Ads are so invasive and prevalent now that you need an ad blocker just to use the internet.
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"Never" is not true, it used to be a major browser. Now, though, sadly it isn't major.
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#20Related: Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220392
Edge is just chromium under the hood. So not a surprise there, should be easy lift for them.