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> I'd also like to see a Chromium fork that continues to allow the Manifest V2 API. 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.
Isn't it called Brave?
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Hey, I have my own workflow around tree style tabs + bookmarks (I think several people are re-inventing the same setup independently), but I guess I don't know browsers/css well enough to understand what you described. Explain it like I'm 5: A) to get rid of the top tabs I copy-paste your userChrome.css and put it where?, and B) will that have any other effects?
A) https://www.userchrome.org/how-create-userchrome-css.html is one tutorial on userchrome. B) I don't know! :) It's easy to revert though.
I wish them the courage to finally pull the trigger.
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Would you mention what you don't understand so that someone can help you instead of just talking bad about a very nifty piece of software?
The last time I tried the Multi Account Containers add-on, it randomly wiped my list of websites after browser restarts and upgrades and there was no way to export the list of websites I had containerized. IIRC, there still isn't a way to do it unless I use Firefox Sync, which I don't. The addon was also basically abandoned for quite some time with lots of bugs all over the place and was revived only recently. It was…
*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/
Development also seems to have stalled while a big new version is being developed behind closed doors.
Are people really that adamant about blocking ads on the web? I don't understand why people think it's a good idea to remove the primary source of revenue for content creators. At the most it amounts to a very mild annoyance and ads also help small businesses to grow. Edit: I'd appreciate it if someone could respond to the points I made rather than simply complain about why they don't like ads.
By themselves, ads aren't the real problem --- personalized ads are the problem. The idea that they have to profile and track your every move all over the internet in order to try and sell you stuff you don't really want or need. Example: If I go to a pet supply web site, an ad for dog food is perfectly understandable --- maybe even welcomed. But just because I was profiled visiting and maybe even buying, I shouldn't…
*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/
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.
Granular control over requests is completely lost in Manifest V3. For example, with Manifest V2 we can initiate a request from a content script after we begin listening for it from the background script, pass a single-use token in the Accept header, identify the request from the background script based on the token, remove the token from the Accept header and edit other headers before the request is sent to the serve…
That has me more concerned than anything else. Christ...
Now I've actually got to read the horror that is browser code? I was looking forward to a nice dip into systems for a bit... Archival takes priority though. The signal must be preserved.