Mitchell baker dropped the ball (or was compromised) in that she did not ship firefox with an adblocker when they had the chance to stifle google
Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension
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Re: Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension
#302My browser combo: Firefox Developer Edition + uBo + Privacy Badger + Facebook Containers One time setup, it’s synced to Mozilla account for later reinstalls
Caution?: mozilla sync doesn't guarantee storage space? They claim you need another instance running?
Re: Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension
#303PM of Orion here. Orion ( https://orionbrowser.com ) is a WebKit-based browser for Mac, Linux, iPadOS and iOS that supports both Chrome and Firefox extensions natively ⟩ including uBlock Origin. We have no plans to drop extension support. Content blocking is a feature, not a loophole, and we think users should have full control over what runs in their browser.
I'm a devoted Kagi user and really want to use Orion but keep running into perf issues and jank that frustrate me enough to switch back to something else. My most recent attempt was this past week.
You all seem to maintain a very fast pace of development (the changelogs are always chock full of cool stuff) but the problems I am hitting have remained broken for ages. Some examples include:
* The app hangs for 1~2 sec partway through typing a URL/search, when using the back button, or during other navigation
* The 1Password extension fails to fill usernames and passwords most of the time, regardless of which version I install. It works fine in Safari, Chrome, Firefox.
* Your built-in ad blocking triggers anti-ad-blocking measures on many news/blog sites now, resulting in the entire page being blocked.
I don't know your business, but maybe pausing new features and pushing for stability/perf/quality of life for a while (a la macOS Snow Leopard) would make sense.
Re: Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension
#304PM of Orion here. Orion ( https://orionbrowser.com ) is a WebKit-based browser for Mac, Linux, iPadOS and iOS that supports both Chrome and Firefox extensions natively ⟩ including uBlock Origin. We have no plans to drop extension support. Content blocking is a feature, not a loophole, and we think users should have full control over what runs in their browser.
No, you don't support Linux. I just tried to download it and got a "coming soon". Please don't post misleading things to HN :(. Kagi has a good rep; misleading comments like this hurts it.
I am also strongly perturbed by the misrepresentation, especially with no real package support. An alpha flatpak that posts "coming soon" is a bad first impression.
Re: Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension
#305Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, you don't support Linux. I just tried to download it and got a "coming soon". Please don't post misleading things to HN :(. Kagi has a good rep; misleading comments like this hurts it.
> No, you don't support Linux Here you go, official beta flatpak: https://orionbrowser.com/download/oriongtk-early-beta
Any idea if that browser will ever go open source? I don't mind flatpaks but would rather just have some of my tools installed on my distro (which can be monumental to maintain).
Re: Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension
#306uBo is the only reason I find browsing the web at all tolerable anymore. As a test I turned it off to view this article and almost crashed my browser with a dozen auto play video ads This would mean I would find the energy to get over anything that is holding me on chrome, like saved passwords etc.
Firefox thankfully offers sync and imports your Chrome data.
Makes switching easy.
Re: Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension
#307Opera was a strong contender to become my main browser (luckily firefox copied the most useful feature, it's vpn), if ublock is deactivated, I will let it go without a second look.
Since when does firefox have vpn,?
Re: Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension
#308Switched back over to Firefox a few weeks ago, it's as pleasant as I remember it being.
Unfortunately sometimes my Intel Arc B580 has a driver quirk where all the windows freeze and unlike Chromium based browsers I can't open Task Manager and kill the GPU Process and have it restart and have everything keep working, but rather have to kill the whole browser and restart it and hope the tabs load back correctly - thankfully haven't had many issues with losing those (only once or twice in the past year, but those were fucking annoying).
Either way, I explored both Edge as my daily driver for a year or so and also Safari on my Mac - both are actually fine as far as the user experience is concerned, but in the end I still come back to Firefox. It's a browser, it doesn't feel user hostile, it does its job well enough. Also personally I like its devtools more.
Re: Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension
#309PM of Orion here. Orion ( https://orionbrowser.com ) is a WebKit-based browser for Mac, Linux, iPadOS and iOS that supports both Chrome and Firefox extensions natively ⟩ including uBlock Origin. We have no plans to drop extension support. Content blocking is a feature, not a loophole, and we think users should have full control over what runs in their browser.
What about the glaring memory issues that is a pinned thread in your forum? It’s had one comment by a staff member over 5 or so months? I loved Orion and have been using as a daily driver almost since day 1 including paying for it but now it’s completely unusable. I’ve since moved to Firefox. The fact that a pinned thread was silent for months concerns me about the future of Orion. It honestly hurts to see.
Literally this. Every response initially was "we don't see that and we let it sit for weeks". Now there's just no response from devs. I was unable to browse past more than 1 or 2 pages before memory ballooned to 30gb.
Re: Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension
#310uBo is the only reason I find browsing the web at all tolerable anymore. As a test I turned it off to view this article and almost crashed my browser with a dozen auto play video ads This would mean I would find the energy to get over anything that is holding me on chrome, like saved passwords etc.
Agree. The web is literally unusable without uBlock Origin. It should be a standard browser feature at this point, like popup blockers.
You are 100% correct and if uBlock Origin didn't exist I would dedicate my life to creating it.