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Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension

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Re: Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension

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Post by account42 »

Freak_NL wrote: post #80
28304283409234 wrote: post #61

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Let's not exchange crap behaviour. I think google would win hands down. Firefox at least has adblocking.

The classic 'those guys did something bad, so I am going to go with the guys who are absolute assholes doing several orders of magnitude more bad things now instead' response. That usually means that whoever utters it was just looking for a sycophantic excuse to go with the bigger threat because it is more convenient to them (for now).

Not at all. Firefox is a trap to keep motivated people from banding together to create a real user-respecting alternative.

Re: Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension

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Post by gonzalohm »

qweqwe14 wrote: post #210
lelanthran wrote: post #184

Good! Give everyone the push they need to break the web homogeny of Chrome everywhere. I'm tired of all the (mostly technical) people whining that they need Chrome, and only Chrome can browse the internet. Then you ask them for a site that doesn't work and conveniently "it was some time back and I don't remember the details". I've been using FF since before it was called Firefox. In the last 10 years I've not come ac…

No. You do realize that people have stuff to do and want their browser to be both 1) fast and 2) compatible with all websites? Firefox is slower than Chromium, and always will have some compatibility issues, because all websites are made with Chromium in mind. You can pretend all you want that "well ackshually standards exist and all website makers should use things from the standard", but it's not realistic, everyon…

That sounds like the apple fanboys "but it just works, why wouldn't I like a monopoly"

Re: Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension

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Post by pseudalopex »

danslo wrote: post #64

>from our experience, uBO Lite does not seem to be as good as the original non-Lite version In what way? I've never noticed a difference.

The uBlock Origin Lite FAQ said In general, uBOL will be less effective at dealing with websites using anti-content blocker or minimizing website breakage because many filters can't be converted into DNR rules (see log of conversion for technical details).[1]

[1] https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/Frequently-as...

Re: Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension

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maxloh wrote: post #110
Krssst wrote: post #49

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> Firefox will also disable V2 sooner or later. Source? > Firefox won't, because mozilla banned that extension from store. It's unbanned; the author chose to not put it back. https://www.ghacks.net/2024/10/01/mozillas-massive-lapse-in-...

Yeah, pissing off the ecosystem is a great way to drive users to your competitors. Requiring users to manually install and update a popular extension is a subpar experience. It seems they spent so much of their budget on the CEO's salary that they couldn't afford an extension review team. Quoting open-paren comment (2024): > As far as I can tell, there are maybe two reviewers that are based in Europe (Romania?). The…

Even if their review is flawed with false positive rejections, you'd think they have checks to require approvals from up the chain for poster child extensions that without which FF would be nothing.

Re: Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension

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Post by account42 »

derideor wrote: post #122
somat wrote: post #104

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Ship has already sailed, it's called DoH. Please note, that it is to make your DNS safer and has absolutely nothing to do with removing your ability to resolve DNS in whatever way you want to(cough adblock cough).

I guess I just missed that?! I'm running a mix of Adguard and nextdns blockers on some of my mobile devices, and both are apparently handling the DoH issue for you; by just blanket blocking the resolvers and/or ports, to force a fallback.... I need a Beer.

Don't worry. Once their telemetry shows that DoH is working for enough users they'll push to remove the fallback for security reasons.

Re: Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension

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Post by Itoldmyselfso »

misswaterfairy wrote: post #92
20k wrote: post #53

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For me the two reasons I can't live without are 1. Firefox's ctrl-f search doesn't highlight all instances of a found item on the right hand side. It sounds petty, but its a gigantic timesaver for looking through research documents 2. Firefox's tab crash recovery isn't as solid. I use chrome with fully persistent tabs, and its a gigantic pain if I can't re-open them If I could find a way to fix these I'd swap in a he…

Do these Firefox extensions help? I haven't used this, as I didn't know it was a feature I needed until you mentioned it. - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/find-in-page-... Tab Session Manager allows you to dump tabs to groups for restoration later, with auto-save at regular intervals. Works quite well! - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-session-m...

There's also Simple tab groups which allows creation of file backups at regular intervals https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/simple-tab-gr...

Re: Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension

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Post by gonzalohm »

zacmps wrote: post #208
lelanthran wrote: post #184

Good! Give everyone the push they need to break the web homogeny of Chrome everywhere. I'm tired of all the (mostly technical) people whining that they need Chrome, and only Chrome can browse the internet. Then you ask them for a site that doesn't work and conveniently "it was some time back and I don't remember the details". I've been using FF since before it was called Firefox. In the last 10 years I've not come ac…

I now daily drive firefox, there are unfortunately plently of broken sites. Nebula's video player is broken in widescreen for example.

Interesting. I also use Firefox and Nebula works fine for me. Do you have any extensions that may be causing that?

Re: Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension

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Post by nchmy »

Markoff wrote: post #182
qmmmur wrote: post #158

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This isn't the gotcha you think it is. Every time I try Vivaldi I am right back at Firefox and I am surely not alone. I have never understood the obsession with tree style tabs or vertical tabs. I don't need to customise my browser at all and I like supporting engine diversity.

went from Firefox to Vivaldi, never looked back for many years on Android phone tried many, most recently was using Kiwi Browser, then for some time Firefox until they fucked up UI, so moved to Cromite, though my phone broke (never buy Google Pixel again, first broken phone after 15 years with smartphones and various brands including very low budget), so now I am on my old phone which for some reason doesn't support…

Why not Vivaldi on android as well, and benefit from sync etc? That's what I've been doing for about 8 months now. Generally quite happy.
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