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Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

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Post by Enginerrrd »

tomc1985 wrote: post #150
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.

It amazes me that a consensus seems to have formed around this conclusion that Firefox is technically inferior. I have always been using it and it has always been a fantastic browser relatively free of Google's icy tendrils. The technical issues that people bring up about it are usually nonexistent for me, and while I am troubled at its direction it remains an unusually solid and reliable workhorse given the stakes i…

On a PC I don't have any issues with firefox. On mobile I do. I also am still pissed that they killed almost all the extensions for firefox on mobile.

Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

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Post by Knufen »

jackewiehose wrote: post #198
voxic11 wrote: post #27

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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.

> you can do fun things like disable the Wake Lock API How? Is there a hidden about:config?

I second this, if anyone knows how to configure this or has a guide it would be much appreciated!

Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

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Post by Zardoz84 »

diroussel wrote: post #100
ravenstine wrote: post #81

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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…

Let's not forget Tree Style Tabs, no other browser can do it. Great for the tab hoarders amongst us.

Simple Tab Groups awesome complement. In special with Firefox, not loading tabs that you not have opened. And if you combine with Total Suspender... Like having infinite tabs with paying any price.

Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

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Post by pkulak »

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

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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.

Eh, I use Chromebooks occasionally. The trick is just to not lock things like bookmarks and passwords into you browser. 1password and pinboard both work great with Chrome.

Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

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Post by linknoid »

wccrawford wrote: post #172
linknoid wrote: post #145

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The only two places I use Chrome are Netflix and Costco. Costco's behavior is just plain weird: "Access Denied You don't have permission to access " http://www.costco.com/ " on this server." Is this from running NoScript? Or does it affect all Firefox users? (Also the URL is https:// , not http:// , so the error message doesn't match the URL).

I've used Costco's site plenty of times on Firefox. I just double-checked Windows right now, and I'm pretty sure I've used it on OSX/Firefox in the past.

I cleared my cookies in Firefox for everything Costco related, and it works now. Thanks for pointing out that it works. No clue how it got in that state.

Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

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Post by caoilte »

magicalhippo wrote: post #123
caoilte wrote: post #111

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I keep chromium for Google meet exclusively. I got awful performance on Firefox... not that chrome is much better - but at least I can kill it after every meeting without losing other tabs.

Used Google Meet just yesterday, only a small meeting with five people, but all with webcams and of course audio. Flawless and smooth with Firefox 86 on Windows 10. Clearly not a universal thing then I guess.

These things change frequently. I'll give it another go.

Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

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Post by gxnxcxcx »

jedberg wrote: post #154
jabroni_salad wrote: post #99

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There is also no way to rearrange your containers aside from deleting them and making new ones in the desired order. Since I am using this for o365 administration it is a little annoying that I can't keep them in alphabetical order to find them easily.

Are you on the latest version? I can rearrange them on mine. If click on "manage containers" there is a gray on gray bar on the right. If you hover it, your cursor should change to an arrow to rearrange them.

That allows for visual rearrangement of that particular menu, but as far as I can tell the new tab button's list does not change and the extension keyboard shortcuts are still limited to the first 10 containers, which are bound by their creation order.

A non-sanctioned way to mitigate this might be achieved by editing containers.json, but I'm wary of inviting sync shenanigans.

Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

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Post by dexterdog »

catlifeonmars wrote: post #132
ravenstine wrote: post #81

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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…

Privacy considerations aside, containers are great for using multiple AWS accounts simultaneously. Since we use an AWS account as a deployment container, it’s typical to have 10s of different accounts you have to jump between and it’s just not possible to effectively do ops with another browser.

You can use the aws switch roles addon that lets you do that in one container.

Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

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Post by Sephr »

> The Firefox version of uBO use LZ4 compression by default to store raw filter lists, compiled list data, and memory snapshots to disk storage.

This doesn't explain why the Chrome version doesn't use LZ4 or better by default. There are native JS implementations of LZ4 available as well that don't require WebAssembly.

Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

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Post by tedivm »

surround wrote: post #200
blub wrote: post #177

I started using Brave in addition to Firefox recently and I was curious if it supports this. Seems like it does ( https://brave.com/privacy-updates-6/ ) and uBlock origin was the inspiration for that feature. I never used uBlock, but I did use uMatrix (discontinued, but still working) which allows you very fine grained control over scripts and other resources based on the domain. Unfortunately it was a pain to get so…

Brave is Chromium-based and suffers from all of the limitations stated in the parent article. (Except for CNAME cloaking. However, their CNAME uncloaking only applies to their built-in tracking protection. AFAIK, if you use uBo on Brave it will be still unable to uncloak CNAMES.)

Brave even openly admits this in that blog post announcing their support for native CNAME uncloaking-

> In version 1.25.0, uBlock Origin gained the ability to detect and block CNAME-cloaked requests using Mozilla’s terrific browser.dns API. However, this solution only works in Firefox, as Chromium does not provide the browser.dns API. To some extent, these requests can be blocked using custom DNS servers. However, no browsers have shipped with CNAME-based adblocking protection capabilities available and on by default.

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