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I prefer an ad (and porn, gambling, social media) blocking host file myself.
Necessary, but not sufficient. Sometimes you want to block certain URLs and not whole domains.
Or certain elements.
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Re: Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers
#332Seems like the affected version of chrome is 150 and 151, and the timewindow is near.
Because of ungoogled-chromium, I'm used to manually update the browser. This time I won't update until MV2 problem is solved properly. I've already lost my extensions once by updating to 138 without checking google's adversarial move, and got the forbidden knowledge that I cannot manually downgrade chromium because it won't start.
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#333Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not about the number of (possibly sleeping) tabs, it's about how FF doesn't manage those active ones to prevent the app from crashing.. try opening 10 instagram profiles (via open in new tab) in the web browser. I told you all that Chrome doesn't crash, FF does + pages work much slower.
Have you verified what caused the crash via logcat? Firefox has never crashed in my case, not even once (but I'm not running a low ram device).
That was nearly a year ago because chrome with extensions then arrived, but I did verify it was caused by RAM (usage was growing as FF was loading these tabs in background), then I did set some tweak in about:config which made the issue a little less severe (open in new tab didn't start loading them), but it still crashed if I then manually switched tabs, FF did not unload previous ones despite running out of RAM.
Re: Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers
#334What a time! A browser was supposed to be the "user agent".
Regardless of what people say about Firefox, I've been using it for uBlock Origin and containers for ages, and won't be trading it for whatever performance, battery life, compatibility gains people continue to use Chrome for. Choose whatever is important for you, though.
Re: Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers
#335The Ladybird browser could potentially be a nice alternative in the future: https://ladybird.org/
that thing has been in development for the past 10 years. At this point, I doubt we ever see it.
It is gaining more contributors and starting to be relatively compliant with most browser standards. Alpha release is expected EoY. I am optimistic for its future.
Re: Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers
#336I don't have an ad blocker.
I have two bookmarklets:
- remove all IFrames
- remove all display:fixed elements
Both also use a mutation observer to catch new instances.
This takes care of 90% of the annoying ads and cookie popups. To push for more leads into excess complexity for marginal gain.
Re: Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers
#337I've been using private DNS for couple of years now, almost never miss browser level blocking now
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#338Re: Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers
#339Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Mozilla gets ripped to shreds any time they're discussed, but they keep the open internet alive." That "keep the web open" nonsense is a myth, spread by Mozilla press releases People who use Firefox, not all of them, "keep open internet [read: www] alive" If Firefox exists and does the job for them, then they'll use it. These users write the add-ons to do "ad blocking", not Mozilla If Mozilla closes the door on "ad…
I'll never understand the "I hate FF for taking google money. That's why I use chrome." When something is so egregious incongruous then it should be a red flag.
You're hallucinating the second part. The comment you replied to doesn't advocate for the use of Chrome.
Re: Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers
#340And I won't even notice. Firefox is probably the most divisive topic on this website. Mozilla gets ripped to shreds any time they're discussed, but they keep the open internet alive. I don't see how any self-respecting Hacker could choose anything else. I'm a big fan of critique, critiquing the scaffolding of our lives is the best thing we can do. That said...... we have nearly lost the browser wars and if we do it w…
Safari on Mac, Firefox on Linux. (Windows: no thanks)