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This seems like it's too hard to tell friends/family. Is the go-to now just 'install firefox'?
It's an opportunity for someone to write an "adblock fixer" app for the non-technical market.
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>key was added and will presumably stay forever Nope, it will be removed after 1 year. There is a chance they delay it depending on how much the enterprises complain, but so long as all their big clients are migrated I doubt they care about the long-tail.
How do you make sites that are only whitelist certain browsers to work under Firefox? Is there an app, extensions etc anything? For some handful of sites I have to keep a Chrome install around
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/user-agent-st...
Finally some news that makes me think the Firefox has a glimmer of hope left.
This seems like it's too hard to tell friends/family. Is the go-to now just 'install firefox'?
While some people will claim that those changes were necessary, the impact was still very negative for the extension developers and users who were affected at the time.
The numerous other user-hostile decisions made by Firefox's developers certainly don't help repair the trust that was lost then.
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If you have those one or two very specific websites that just cannot cope with Firefox, just use Chrome for them. They're likely not the ad-filled pages anyway, but rather some specific companies. We've done this for the IE in the past, we can do it today. It really doesn't take that much time. There's only one thing that will fix this situation long term and it's lowering chrome's market share. Don't stick with it a…
Most of those "cannot copes" can be fixed by changing the user agent to that of Chrome. Most sites that refuse to work in other browsers simply don't test on anything but Chrome and don't want the support burden.
Today yes, but that could start to change if most tech people stop using Chrome, which they will if they can't block ads easily. Plus many average semi-tech-savvy people use ad blockers and will kick up a fuss and switch if their browsing becomes suddenly ad-ridden. If Chrome gets a reputation like AOL or something, then it won't be as acceptable for a website to only support Chrome.
This seems like it's too hard to tell friends/family. Is the go-to now just 'install firefox'?
If Google leaves a boolean switch in Chromium to keep V2 enabled then I assume most if not all of the third party Chromium-derived browsers will just flip it to true by default. That's easy for them to do, the hard part is if Google strips out V2 altogether and leaves the downstream browsers to patch it back in.