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Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported

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Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported

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Post by pjmlp »

talldayo wrote: post #88
pjmlp wrote: post #36

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Everyone that is shipping Electron garbage, and has focused on Chrome as The Best Experience, is to blame.

Situation: People are getting fat from choosing to eat too much bacon "Pitiful, though with a thankfully straightforward cure. We arrest all pig farmers, meat packers and delivery drivers while inspecting all refrigerated cargo at checkpoints. We shall demolish any restaurant serving pork, blame each person who has ever eaten a slice regardless of their health, and demonize every salty and fatty food." "Yes, my stanc…

In fact, governments do step in to fix behaviours when their citizens go overboard.

Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported

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Post by fp64 »

slenk wrote: post #132
fp64 wrote: post #123

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^w is delete word in vim/bash/everywhere else. It’s terrible whenever I accidentally type this in the browser and the window closes. I typically close terminal windows with ctrl-d so I have this mapped in my browser as well. It’s really muscle memory and I do not want to change it

By that same logic, ^w is used as close window everywhere else

Not for me, I hardly use anything GUI apart from my browser. Can’t actually think of anything right now apart from some niche tools. Either way, the fact that I can customise it that easily in Chrome but not in Firefox is a huge factor why I don’t like using Firefox

Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported

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Post by nonamesleft »

fp64 wrote: post #56
peutetre wrote: post #10

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Bypass Chrome altogether. Use Firefox.

How can I swap ^W and ^D in Firefox? For Chrome I found an extension that works (…worked?) fine, the only thing for Firefox I found would be compiling it myself, which I find a much worse experience than compiling Chromium myself (neither of which I like doing)

Patch localization/en-US/browser/browserSets.ftl in your browser/omni.ja (a .zip with a weird file extension), it contains stuff like: close-shortcut = .key = W

See: https://github.com/SebastianSimon/firefox-omni-tweaks how it can be done.

I do this myself as ctrl-n has to be new tab for me, forever, and firefox broke the old keyconfig extension years and years ago. (I had ctrl-n create tabs with an external window manager back in netscape 4 times and opera (pre-chrome-fork one) after that.)

Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported

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Post by fp64 »

nonamesleft wrote: post #144
fp64 wrote: post #56

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How can I swap ^W and ^D in Firefox? For Chrome I found an extension that works (…worked?) fine, the only thing for Firefox I found would be compiling it myself, which I find a much worse experience than compiling Chromium myself (neither of which I like doing)

Patch localization/en-US/browser/browserSets.ftl in your browser/omni.ja (a .zip with a weird file extension), it contains stuff like: close-shortcut = .key = W See: https://github.com/SebastianSimon/firefox-omni-tweaks how it can be done. I do this myself as ctrl-n has to be new tab for me, forever, and firefox broke the old keyconfig extension years and years ago. (I had ctrl-n create tabs with an external window m…

Amazing, thank you!

Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported

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Post by snailmailman »

rchaud wrote: post #135
KurtMueller wrote: post #58

Come join the Firefox revolution!

Uh, YT on FF is unusable now. They'll show the "adblockers not allowed" message if you have Ghostery enabled. Even if you disable that, they will add tons of artificial lag on things like key input, clicks and screen draw speed. I know it's artificial because it worked fine for years and then one day....

I’ve had zero issues or ads lately using Firefox + uBlock origin. For a while I had to update the Adblock lists manually sometimes, but for months now it’s been flawless for me.

Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported

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Post by snailmailman »

enriqueycombi wrote: post #76

Lame. Try using NextDNS to block ads entirely instead of just in Chrome. Also, duck.com has a browser extension that can do this. You could also just use their browser instead.

There are many types of ads that cannot be blocked by dns-based blockers. Just like there are ads that can’t be blocked by the new “ublock lite” that is allowed in manifest v3.

uBlock origin can do more complex ad detection and removal, and is the most thorough approach for anything in the browser.

Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported

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Post by yumraj »

likeabatterycar wrote: post #33
jldl805 wrote: post #14

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Firefox on ChromeOS sucks though. Just went through this, tried Canary, etc. Went back to Chrome.

Just ChromeOS? Firefox on Mac sucks. Here is one example: Firefox's tracking of the mouse cursor is broken, and often (yes, it's inconsistent) applies a vector translation so when trying to click something like a button or menu, the cursor needs to be about 100 x-y pixels away from the target. Only Firefox native UI is affected. These are My_First_Program.app tier bugs that should not exist in mature, 20 year old sof…

So one inconsistent bug, that only happens for a small subset and there’s no bug report filed makes FF suck on Macs.

Hyperbole much?

Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported

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Post by o999 »

catlikesshrimp wrote: post #81
rascul wrote: post #63

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What's wrong with ladybird?

Netscape, Edge, Chrome, Safari, Firefox, All have a pop appeal to them (the names) "Ladybug" makes a reference to a bug. And not a thrilling one.

Ladyfeature

Re: Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported

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Post by SSchick »

ac29 wrote: post #121
whamlastxmas wrote: post #106

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Google is deliberately doing this to break ad blocking for Google ads while still allowing ad blockers to work for non Google ads. Most users probably won’t care enough to change browsers or many won’t really notice

> Google is deliberately doing this to break ad blocking for Google ads If so, they are doing a crap job of it because uBlock Origin Lite successfully blocks all of the search ads on google.com

They were pretty much forced to do this slowly and gradually. There was a large amount of external pushback and some internal too (though money controls here).
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