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Re: Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine

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Post by gbil »

mmooss wrote: post #44
gbil wrote: post #19

If this means that they release a iOS version with the same Adblock features as brave then I’m sold. I use essentially all OSs and I want a browser with basic features like adblocking/custom filters on all the platforms and currently Firefox fails this on iOS devices. Still I believe the Firefox sync is much more robust than eg. Brave one , among various platforms. But then I will also need Firefox to fix keyboard sh…

What is the use case for keyboard shortcuts on handheld devices? On desktops/laptops, keyboard shortcuts save reaching for a mouse, aiming (on the relativley large screen), and clicking. On handhelds, I don't think it's faster to use a shortcut than to simply tap something an inch away. Also, on handhelds, the keyboard blocks a significant part of the screen. And keyboard shortcuts typically use accelerator keys, whi…

I use an Android tablet with detachable keyboard and works great also with Samsung DEX if you want something more for basic multitasking and there i want the shortcuts, I actually used it a lot, before firefox switched to Fenix base, for navigating tabs, opening closing them really really smooth but then....

Re: Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine

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Post by ahartmetz »

stavros wrote: post #110
lxgr wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Of course everything based on Chromium will inherit most of Chrome's decisions, including this one. (Unless they fork their entire web extension implementation and maintain the fork forever.)

Yeah but then "only Chrome" is misleading, when it's actually "every major browser except Firefox".

Safari isn't exactly non-major. By the way, it seems like WebKit Embedded (~resource-efficient Linux port) has regained some steam due to Igalia's work over the last two years or so.

Re: Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine

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Post by Daedren »

Markoff wrote: post #58
Steve6 wrote: post #9

I migrated from Firefox to Brave years ago, and it's been incredible. It's easy to turn off the crypto stuff and turn on more advanced privacy protection. Then it's just a fast browser with awesome adblocking. My favorite recent feature has been Brave Scriptlets, which are just little javascript functions you can run on specific sites. I've replaced most of the add ons I used with small scripts. Pretty nice. I would…

Why not Cromite (or Ultimatum, Helium)? Hard to understand why someone reading HN use browser without extensions support.

I don't think the parent poster is talking about Android.

Re: Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine

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Post by lxgr »

stavros wrote: post #110
lxgr wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Of course everything based on Chromium will inherit most of Chrome's decisions, including this one. (Unless they fork their entire web extension implementation and maintain the fork forever.)

Yeah but then "only Chrome" is misleading, when it's actually "every major browser except Firefox".

A single engine/implementation deprecated the feature. I don’t think this is particularly misleading in a hacker news context.

Re: Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine

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Post by NoboruWataya »

nananana9 wrote: post #91
Steve6 wrote: post #9

I migrated from Firefox to Brave years ago, and it's been incredible. It's easy to turn off the crypto stuff and turn on more advanced privacy protection. Then it's just a fast browser with awesome adblocking. My favorite recent feature has been Brave Scriptlets, which are just little javascript functions you can run on specific sites. I've replaced most of the add ons I used with small scripts. Pretty nice. I would…

"The first thing you have to do is to turn off the cryptocurrency stuff." Fantastic first impression. I'm good, thanks.

Can you imagine the absolute boiling rage in these comments if Firefox implemented the same kind of opt-out "crypto stuff".

Re: Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine

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Post by curt15 »

lxgr wrote: post #87
charleslmunger wrote: post #8

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>Maintaining both MV2 & MV3 support isn’t easily sustainable long term when you factor in the need to prioritize other features. There is no feature Firefox provides that is more differentiating than ublock origin. As long as pages load and security issues are patched it is the reason to choose Firefox as a browser. What would they prioritize over it?

And there's nothing in MV2 that uBlock Origin needs that doesn't exist in MV3 on Firefox, unlike Chrome. This issue is completely overblown.

Are you disputing uBlock Origin's list of MV3-incompatible capabilities [1]?

[1] https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/Frequently-as...

Re: Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine

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Post by abc123abc123 »

Zardoz84 wrote: post #69
cookiengineer wrote: post #18

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> I'd be genuinely curious what you could switch to that still has MV2 because, AFAIK, Firefox is the last holdout. My last hope is ladybird right now, I don't use Firefox or Chrome as my main browsers anymore, and use them only within temporary sandboxes. Without history, without cookies, without logins for the most part.

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Re: Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine

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Post by homebrewer »

NoboruWataya wrote: post #125
nananana9 wrote: post #91

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"The first thing you have to do is to turn off the cryptocurrency stuff." Fantastic first impression. I'm good, thanks.

Can you imagine the absolute boiling rage in these comments if Firefox implemented the same kind of opt-out "crypto stuff".

It is opt-in. The amount of FUD in these threads is unbelievable, both against Mozilla, Brave, or anything else really.

Re: Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine

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Post by imtringued »

cookiengineer wrote: post #75
Zardoz84 wrote: post #69

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> Good luck with the main developer being in the alt right. Sources? I can't find anything on that via google/ddg (Germany) edit: oof. [1] https://drewdevault.com/blog/Cloudflare-and-fascists/

Isn't this blog post more evidence that drewdevault became an extreme leftist?

I mean he's basically going off a checklist of leftist stereotypes here and trying to check as many of them as possible.

Meanwhile the other guy he's criticising is literally just a standard right-wing conservative, not far right, not alt right, just the regular kind. The far right I've seen is basically beyond the idea of being merely anti-immigration, they demand ICE style mass deportations immediately and in every country.

If both of them met in a bar through sheer coincidence, I'd expect drewdevault to start the fight.

Re: Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine

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Post by Latty »

jeroenhd wrote: post #112
dlcarrier wrote: post #37

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It's too bad that Mozilla does everything they can to alienate its users, with failed attempts to attract a different but non-existent new user-base. Without them, and with Safari being run by a company that likes to tie its software to its hardware, there's pretty much no reasonable non-Chrome-based web browsers, so it's the new Internet Explorer, and many web pages only work on it, because no one tests their web pa…

People online rant about Firefox all the time for adding stuff Google and Microsoft shoved into their Chromium forks a few years ago, but when they do it the response is always "well what did you expect from " while when Mozilla does it, the response is "this is an outrage, I'm switching to ". I don't think there is or ever will be a "new internet explorer". If your page works in Chrome, there's a 99% chance it'll wo…

And people treat Mozilla like the devil when while they make mistakes, they routinely fix them too. E.g: when people had concerns about the AI stuff, they added a general opt out with a feature-by-feature opt-in.

To make an obviously unproven and not universal observation: I feel like it's people who just like the google integration in Chrome and want an excuse to run it, even though they feel like they should use Firefox because it's more compatible with their world view, so they latch onto any issues Firefox has to go "see, they are all the same anyway", and then just repeat vague "Mozilla sucks" stuff.

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