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Proxy Chrome extensions are not going to be usable in MV3

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Post by pkulak »

jacooper wrote: post #127
pkulak wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And every time there's a bunch of replies about how great Brave is, and everyone should just use that... Chromium wrapper.

Mozilla only has themselves to blame. I'm going to repost a previous comment here. > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32741481 > I used to refuse Chromium for the Same reason. > But honestly it already happened, Firefox is already irrelevant. > Mozilla is mis-managed organization that is funded to avoid anti-trust investigations, they dont fully push for privacy because they are afraid of google, do out of touch…

Exactly. Perfect example, thank you.

Re: Proxy Chrome extensions are not going to be usable in MV3

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Post by okasaki »

glenstein wrote: post #209
okasaki wrote: post #163

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is this a joke? The only things correctly sized are the page and the hamburger menu. Do you not see the oversized tab-bar, the tiny icons on the tab-bar and address bar, the tiny ublock origin dialog, and the huge settings page?

I see all of those things, and none of them look unusual. Contrary to your claim, the tab part is not appear oversized but rather a normal size, contrary to your claim the icons also look a normal size, the address bar looks normal size and ublock origin looks the normal size and the settings page looks more or less normal. It's hard to understand what you think is unusual. Everything in the browser is displayed norm…

I don't see what is so hard to understand.

I run a 150dpi screen.

What the problem with running a "96dpi" application on a 150dpi screen?

The text is overall too small.

What text?

Literally all the text in the entire application is too small.

What do I want?

I want to make the text bigger, so I have an easier time reading it.

Is there an application that does what I want?

Yes, Chrome does what I want.

What does Chrome do?

I set the default zoom level to 150% and it makes all the text bigger.

What text does it make bigger?

It makes all the text bigger, and the icons too.

What's the problem with Firefox?

I set the zoom level to 150% and some of the text is fine, some of it is way too small, some of it gigantic.

Why is that a problem?

I have a hard time reading text that's either too small or too big.

What's the problem with the tab bar?

It's too tall.

What's the problem with the icons?

They're too small!

This is just a you problem?

Surely fucking not. Surely I am not the only person running a web browser above 96dpi (on x11).

Is this a X11 problem?

No, Chrome works fine.

Is this a really complicated problem?

No, making fonts the correct size for comfortable reading isn't complicated.

Re: Proxy Chrome extensions are not going to be usable in MV3

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Post by dizhn »

The issue seems to be specifically about authentication of proxies. Something I could never find a good extension for in the past.

What I ended up doing and found to be better is to connect to the proxy over a wireguard IP. I can recommend this solution to individuals and people who don't need granular authentication.

Re: Proxy Chrome extensions are not going to be usable in MV3

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Post by whoisthemachine »

josefx wrote: post #105
whoisthemachine wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Firefox supports all DRM content I have come across, clearly there are ways to implement DRM that don't involve Google.

Open Addons an Themes, click on Plugins, by default you should see a line that says "Widevine Content Decryption Module provided by Google Inc." . Note the Google Inc. .

Fair, and I didn't know that or had forgotten it, but I think Firefox is still relevant to the parent's comment, and the context of the topic:

> No, especially not if you want to watch videos, the DRM plugin is a binary blob that only Google approved browsers get to run.

So it might be better to say that you don't need to be locked into Google's browser (or a fork of its OS base) in order to consume a wide variety of online content, and you can thus avoid this issue with Chrome extensions entirely. And at least with Firefox it is just a plugin, so presumably could be replaced with a binary blob from someone else if Google's influence became worrisome enough (and I do wonder, isn't it already worrisome enough??).

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