It also seems to muck up bypass-paywalls and my clearly reader extension. I wonder how long I can stay on the current version?
Tell HN: uBlock Origin on Chrome is finally gone
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#132Earlier quoted context omitted.
For microsoft its a joke to support. We are talking about _one hook_ into Chrome internals for declarativeNetRequest to work.
I hear this and I also hear the lack of experience with enterprise (let alone commercial) software development. Five lines of code still requires one dev, one PM, and one manager. It still requires security reviews, audits, and so on. There are no free lines of code in a commercial code base.
As I said its a joke to MS, they are a $3 trillion company. Not to mention all that AI replacing developers they keep talking about :)
Re: Tell HN: uBlock Origin on Chrome is finally gone
#133so why not staying at 137? what are we missing?
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#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
What do you like about it?
its got stronger privacy out of the box than stock firefox, modern design, big fan of vertical tabs myself and it now has basic tab folders if enabled by flags. ubo/bpc both work nicely.
Vertical tabs and tab groups (I suspect it can't be that different from folders but I could be wrong) are available in Firefox.
Re: Tell HN: uBlock Origin on Chrome is finally gone
#135so why not staying at 137? what are we missing?
Security patches and new features that sites will inevitably adopt in the future?
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#136Re: Tell HN: uBlock Origin on Chrome is finally gone
#137Earlier quoted context omitted.
…yet another Chromium browser though - supporting the Google browser monopoly.
It is based on Firefox…
They really should be a LOT clearer about it on their homepage, 99.99% of "original" browsers tend to be a wrapper around Chromium.
And as someone who actually lived through the "IE is the standard, deal with it" - age, I refuse to use any Chromium based browser out of principle. We need more actually viable engines in use or Google will just keep dictating what's allowed on the internet by the fact that Chrome has something like 90% market share on desktop browsers.
Re: Tell HN: uBlock Origin on Chrome is finally gone
#138Has anyone made the switch to firefox? I’d be sad to lose my nice google profile integration to chrome and the password manager. And whenever I try Firefox it feels a little bit jankier and slower, but that might just be in my head
Yes. Firefox has its own password manager and profile system. Once I copied the chrome settings to firefox, I closed chrome and rarely open it these days.
Ditto. I installed CrunchBang++ Linux[1] on a couple of out-of-support 4GB-RAM Chromebooks about 6 months ago, and they (with Firefox (w/shared account) and uBlock Origin) basically continue to fill the Chromebook role (my morning before-work lazy web-surfing guided by Inoreader) with aplomb: occasionally I go a little too tab-crazy (or open one too many YouTube tabs) and it freezes, but simply restarting (holding the power button down until it reboots) gets me going again. I save+close excess tabs to OneTab and life goes on. Extremely utilitarian.
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#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
its got stronger privacy out of the box than stock firefox, modern design, big fan of vertical tabs myself and it now has basic tab folders if enabled by flags. ubo/bpc both work nicely.
Vertical tabs and tab groups (I suspect it can't be that different from folders but I could be wrong) are available in Firefox.
And they're really good. I'm so glad I've discovered this paradigm.
I use a vertical task bar on KDE and a vertical task bar on Windows at work. It's such a huge productivity boost. First, I can see WAY more window previews at one time than before. And second, I can use text to tell the windows apart. 5 Excel workbooks open? No problem, they each have a name. No more clicking on one icon and then squinting at window previews to see which one you need.
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#140Advertising company forcibly disables software that stops the spread of malware. Why would they do that?
The plausible deniability reason is that Manifest V2 gave way too much power to extensions, which is true. ... except that we already execute remote JavaScript on our browsers constantly. And we do it, usually, unconsentually. Versus extensions, which are a deliberate thing you need to install.
That's what i find stupid of current browsers. When Firefox was first created by "stripping" all the bloat from Netscape navigator, the idea was that Extensions would allow end users to add optional functionality . It put the user in control of their browser experience.
There should be a browser that doesn't assume their users are stupid. I want to turn off CORS I want to be able to modify the DOM and inject whatever the heck I want.