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Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

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Post by andoriyu »

shmerl wrote: post #41
sackofmugs wrote: post #6

This is honestly one of the first time I'm convinced in a technical sense to consider Firefox over Chrome. uBlock Origin feels as core to me to web browsing as Saved Passwords and Incognito Mode. That uBlock Origin can work better is like the browser itself being better.

Never really got the appeal of Chrome. Firefox worked very well for me for years.

Firefox, gecko specifically, performed very bad on Mac OS X when chrome just came out.

That was also an era of websites crashing all the damn time - in firefox it was crashing the entire browser.

Chrome was a significantly better browser for a while. Now it's just "why switch?" to your average consumer.

Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

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Post by katsura »

ravenstine wrote: post #81
sackofmugs wrote: post #6

This is honestly one of the first time I'm convinced in a technical sense to consider Firefox over Chrome. uBlock Origin feels as core to me to web browsing as Saved Passwords and Incognito Mode. That uBlock Origin can work better is like the browser itself being better.

I think Firefox's shortcomings are overstated. Often they're actually Mozilla's rather than Firefox's. There are other things I consider superior about Firefox that Chrome has yet to implement: - Multi-account containers is a killer feature IMO. I have different containers for banking, Facebook, a container for every email, a container for every Google/YouTube account, and so forth. - The option to enable canvas perm…

> Pop-out videos (aka picture-in-picture)

Chrome has this.

Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

#104

Post by lolinder »

crazygringo wrote: post #72
lolinder wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

ChromeOS is one thing, but what in GSuite doesn't work on Firefox?

Not the parent commenter, but I'd assume it's mainly browser sync. Being able to log into any Chromebook and immediately have all yours bookmarks/apps/tools/passwords/etc. that you use on your desktop and laptop is pretty useful. As great as Firefox is, if you use Chromebooks then you're gonna use, well, Chrome.

Ah, that does make sense. It doesn't explain why GSuite is a factor, but I do get the browser sync.

Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

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Post by computronus »

kube-system wrote: post #55
approxim8ion wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Host based blocking is certainly better than nothing, but uBlock offers much more comprehensive and expansive blocking, not to mention cosmetic filtering and other features that you can't achieve with PiHole/NextDNS/AdguardDNS/Blokada etc..

For sure, it's not as powerful as something that can modify the DOM, etc. But, you can also run both, if you still prefer uBlock on your PC.

I use both - uBO at the browser level and a PiHole for DNS. It's "defense in depth" - there's more than one layer of defense for something nefarious to get through.

Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

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Post by bassdropvroom »

RamRodification wrote: post #74
bassdropvroom wrote: post #52

> The Firefox version of uBO makes use of WebAssembly code for core filtering code paths. This is not the case with Chromium-based browsers because this would require an extra permission in the extension manifest which could cause friction when publishing the extension in the Chrome Web Store. Anyone know what this extra permission is and why requesting this extra permission would cause friction?

Yeah that one sounds like a negative being described as a positive.

I wouldn't say that. Using WASM is legitimate and will certainly give a performance boost at the very least. I'm just curious about the nuances of having it included in Chrome.

Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

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Post by diroussel »

alpaca128 wrote: post #90
bilekas wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Firefox does seem to have really improved over the last few iterations, performance also when large numbers of tabs open. I cant find the link right now, but there was a nice timings done where Chrome was using less CPU at lower tab counts, but when it increased count, the CPU utilization was considerably higher than FF. I'll be giving it a fair shake for a few months.

Yes, Firefox is pretty much unbeatable in performance per tab. I just installed the tab counter addon and it reports that I currently have >1500 tabs open in Firefox. I know from experience that if I run just a tenth of that in Chromium the whole system will basically lock up. And as pretty much every other more conventional browser is based on Chromium nowadays there's no alternative really unless I get a RAM upgrad…

You can see the tab count without an addon. It's not pretty, but you can do it.

Go to: about:telemetry#scalars-tab

Then look at: browser.engagement.max_concurrent_tab_count

Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

#108

Post by caoilte »

voxic11 wrote: post #27
sackofmugs wrote: post #6

This is honestly one of the first time I'm convinced in a technical sense to consider Firefox over Chrome. uBlock Origin feels as core to me to web browsing as Saved Passwords and Incognito Mode. That uBlock Origin can work better is like the browser itself being better.

Yeah, I want to point out that uBlock Origin is fully functional on mobile firefox which makes it by far the best browser on Android. Plus with firefox you can do fun things like disable the Wake Lock API on youtube so that you can listen to audiobooks or music with the screen off and ad-free.

I like to use newpipe app on Android for YouTube.

Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

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Post by karaterobot »

paxys wrote: post #58
sackofmugs wrote: post #6

This is honestly one of the first time I'm convinced in a technical sense to consider Firefox over Chrome. uBlock Origin feels as core to me to web browsing as Saved Passwords and Incognito Mode. That uBlock Origin can work better is like the browser itself being better.

I have been using Firefox as my daily driver for 3+ years now. Haven't encountered a single case of sites working any worse than on Chrome. I also recently started using Firefox full-time on my work machine despite IT strongly mandating that all our tools only work on Chrome and everyone should use that. Have had zero problems (and we use every Google service under the sun).

> I have been using Firefox as my daily driver for 3+ years now. Haven't encountered a single case of sites working any worse than on Chrome.

Really? It happens to me all the time. I can't log into my U.S. Bank account in Firefox, I can't submit a delivery order on Doordash in Firefox, and (just this morning) I couldn't validate a credit reporting form in Firefox.

Now, despite those and many other examples, I continue to use Firefox as my primary browser, because Chrome has bigger issues in my opinion. I don't blame FF for this, I blame the websites. I just think it sucks that places do not test in or support Firefox better.

Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

#110

Post by Semaphor »

jlund-molfese wrote: post #67
SV_BubbleTime wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The. Worst. I don’t care at all about any of this. Give me the time they boil for ffs. I don’t know if it’s sites paying by the word, or SEO, or some “value added” psychological trick. It is getting worse.

I think the idea is that Google allegedly prioritizes pages by user dwell time, the idea being that if someone spends 10 minutes on your page, it's more relevant than another page where the user only spends 5 seconds before closing the tab. So forcing you to scroll through an essay on the complete history of nutmeg before you can see any of the ingredients in a chocolate chip cookie recipe may improve SEO

but every recipe site I've recently encountered, had a "jump to recipe" link right at the top
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