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Fuck. Just when I got used to Chromium due its nice profiles feature. Sigh. Back to Firefox then. Or perhaps I should just stop using the web for anything except the necessities. Now that I think about it, that would probably make my life better in more than one way.
Time and time again I try to switch to Firefox. But it always seems to fall short (for me at least). I rely too much on separate profiles to disconnect work-related browsing from personal browsing. Separate bookmarks, sessions, browser plugins, sync preferences etc... A UI that's as powerful is literally all that is needed for me anyway. Its such a shame they've neglected the Profile Manager.
in any case, if containers don’t work for you, you can run developer edition for work and standard edition for personal. this is what i do, and the added advantage is that you can use containers on top of it for more granular isolation within each context.
How about posting what we’re losing for those out of the loop. That Reddit link is pretty useless.
There's an extension api called onBeforeRequest() that lets Chrome extensions see urls that are about to be requested by the browser. It allows you to examine the url and do whatever code heuristics you want to decide whether you want to block it. Google is removing that dynamic blocking ability and providing you with a way to supply a static list of blocked urls instead. No ability to use code to implement a dynamic…
I pointed this out in a thread yesterday too, but the whole point is that you will no longer need to grant "see all my requests" permissions to ad blockers. In fact, due to the removal of the old blocking API, if an ad blocker asks for such permissions it's highly suspicious.
*Off-topic:* I've experimented with a new layout in Firefox, and now I can't think of going back. I first installed Tree Style Tab. I then removed the tabs at the top of the window and added a permanent status bar to the bottom of the window using userChrome.css: https://i.imgur.com/PIONywj.png (edited to add, my userChrome.css: https://gist.github.com/anthonyclarka2/155c038de96e91894cbd4... ) (EDIT: I added some ext…
You can save some vertical space by moving the window buttons (minimise/close) into the same row as the omnibox, while also hiding the window title bar like https://imgur.com/a/YbgVgwF
Edited to add:
I had to add the following to move the system UI buttons to the same "bar" as the rest of the UI in Firefox:
/* Adding empty space for buttons */
#nav-bar {
margin-right:80px;
}
/* For dragging whole window by mouse*/
#titlebar {
appearance: none !important;
height: 7px;
}
/*
Fix for main menu calling by Alt button
THIS BREAKS THE UI FOR ME!!
*/
/* #titlebar > #toolbar-menubar {
margin-top: 10px;
} */
/* Move minimize/restore/close buttons to empty space */
#TabsToolbar > .titlebar-buttonbox-container {
display: block;
position: absolute;
top: 17px;
right: 1px;
}
*Off-topic:* I've experimented with a new layout in Firefox, and now I can't think of going back. I first installed Tree Style Tab. I then removed the tabs at the top of the window and added a permanent status bar to the bottom of the window using userChrome.css: https://i.imgur.com/PIONywj.png (edited to add, my userChrome.css: https://gist.github.com/anthonyclarka2/155c038de96e91894cbd4... ) (EDIT: I added some ext…
Maintaining a Chromium fork that deviates from upstream is a full time job that requires about 3-5 engineers. My day job's sibling team maintains such a fork.
*Off-topic:* I've experimented with a new layout in Firefox, and now I can't think of going back. I first installed Tree Style Tab. I then removed the tabs at the top of the window and added a permanent status bar to the bottom of the window using userChrome.css: https://i.imgur.com/PIONywj.png (edited to add, my userChrome.css: https://gist.github.com/anthonyclarka2/155c038de96e91894cbd4... ) (EDIT: I added some ext…
Off topic question on off topic comment: HN, what are your thoughts on Sidebery? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sidebery/
Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can still manage profiles in FF via about:profiles, but I 100% agree it's not accessible enough.
You can add a bookmark shortcut button with the address about:profile and that makes it more accessible. I added a key shortcut to the bookmark itself. Then I can use cmd + L to focus the address bar, type the letter p, and hit Enter. That opens the profiles page and it’s reasonably fast. I also created a similar bookmark with a JavaScript snippet that removes fixed elements from the page, typically top bars. I now h…
For all the claims that the sky is falling, I'd like to know which functionality is still missing in declarativeNetRequest. Extended rule limits, dynamic rules, and header modification have been added. What else is required for a functional adblocker? This reddit thread barely seems to understand the issue, never mind the technical deficiencies of the API.
There’s some information here: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/338#iss...
>A request can be blocked (block), allowed (allow), or ignored (noop). A noop rule will cause matching network requests to be ignored by the dynamic filtering engine, but those ignored network requests will still be subjected to static filtering (filter lists).
So the missing limitation in MV3 right now seems to be that things can be blocked or allowed by dynamic rules, but not ignored such that static rules (be they from a list or the user) can take over.
I'm not sure what use case that has exactly, but I'm guessing that could be a problem if a user wants to override an existing filter with a custom, dynamic rule. Is that the right idea?
Is Privacy Badger affected as well? (how is Privacy Badger different from uBlock?)
uBlock Origin is better.
privacy badger (if i’m remembering correctly) is based on ubo but specifically curated for privacy (not ad or other blocking), and as such, does most of the customization for you, whereas with ubo, you need to do much more of the customization manually.
so to answer the original question, i think privacy badger, like ubo, does use some dynamic rules, and those would be relegated useless with manifest v3.
Does this affect Brave?