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A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web Store

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Re: A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web Store

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Post by zaarn »

cookie_monsta wrote: post #142
zaarn wrote: post #124

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And again, that's what Google is already doing, I'm not saying they're doing the exact same things that happened with IE1-8 but a browser monopoly is still equally bad regardless of how badly a browser is maintained.

Oh, absolutely - I'm not arguing in favour of browser monopolies. I'm saying that browser standards aren't a popularity contest. You can have the most popular browser in the world but still not be able to strongarm your way into compliance. Remember attachEvent?

Well, those are to some extend exceptions, if a browser has major marketshare, then any change implemented will have to be implemented by others. Google doesn't have to stop implementing them at all, no matter the response from devs.

Re: A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web Store

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Post by joshka »

Fixed: https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/dgoymg/warning_ubo_...

> Hey all, I'm Simeon, the developer advocate for Chrome extensions. This morning I heard from the review team; they've approved the current draft so next publish should go through. Unfortunately it's the weekend, so most folks are out, but I'm planning to follow up with u/gorhill4 with more details once I have them.

Re: A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web Store

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Post by zaarn »

scarface74 wrote: post #225
zaarn wrote: post #194

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Oh, don't worry, the government, or atleast the EU, should intervene and force Google to split Chrome into an independent organization.

And when has the EU successfully come to the rescue of geeks who don’t like the way a software company runs?

Correct.

Re: A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web Store

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Post by t-writescode »

rsync wrote: post #397
ravenstine wrote: post #219

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Anyone thinking of installing Firefox should check out the Multi-Account Containers addon. I'm pretty sure such functionality doesn't exist for Chrome, and it makes it possible to isolate different sites and logins from each other. It's one of the best reasons to switch to Firefox, in my opinion.

"Anyone thinking of installing Firefox should check out the Multi-Account Containers addon. I'm pretty sure such functionality doesn't exist for Chrome, and it makes it possible to isolate different sites and logins from each other." Remind me - is this different than the "Container Tab" choice in the File menu ? I find the built-in container functionality in Firefox to be surprisingly awkward and poorly thought out…

Try it and see, I’m very happy with it. You can even specify that any time you go to a particular domain, you use a specific container. Great for separating work from personal for a work machine.

Re: A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web Store

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Post by pault »

genghizkhan wrote: post #346
catalogia wrote: post #295

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It's smooth as butter on my early 2015 macbook air too. I suspect the issue is related to "retina" screens, which I don't have. (a 2009 mbp doesn't either iirc, right?)

Smooth on my mbp early 2015 as well. It's not related to Retina.

I believe some people have narrowed it down to retina screens set to a non integer scaling.

Re: A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web Store

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Post by dredmorbius »

wolco wrote: post #306
peterangular wrote: post #277

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I mean... in some ways yeah? I have to run a dedicated Win10 box because native Office automation is a huge part of what I do. I've had to go to lengths to get the LTSB (and am working on the LTSC) license because it's the only version of Win10 that's controllable + secure. I also have a 2015 MBP for my Adobe Creative Suite workflow. All of my dev infra is Debian 10. Best tool for the job yo. I'm not going to bury my…

Different browsers for different tasks. 99% of surfing happens on firefox. Some sites like vimeo only work in chrome.

Vimeo works with youtube-dl. Probably VLC.

Video viewing (as opposed to previewing) really belongs outside the browser anyway.

Re: A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web Store

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Post by kbenson »

rsync wrote: post #397
ravenstine wrote: post #219

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Anyone thinking of installing Firefox should check out the Multi-Account Containers addon. I'm pretty sure such functionality doesn't exist for Chrome, and it makes it possible to isolate different sites and logins from each other. It's one of the best reasons to switch to Firefox, in my opinion.

"Anyone thinking of installing Firefox should check out the Multi-Account Containers addon. I'm pretty sure such functionality doesn't exist for Chrome, and it makes it possible to isolate different sites and logins from each other." Remind me - is this different than the "Container Tab" choice in the File menu ? I find the built-in container functionality in Firefox to be surprisingly awkward and poorly thought out…

I thought the same for the first month or two, but as I started examining what it was doing and why, a lot of their choices made more sense.

Their contrainers are domain centric, not WI dow or tab centric. You can tell a domain to always be in a container, and then on the prompt to change contrainers when you visit th at domain, you can confirm to always switch.

Locking a window to a container would result in people following links and logging in again in accident in a different container, or being constantly annoyed that it wasn't the right one. If they closed the normal WI dow and kept that one, it would be annoying until they figured it out, and they would probably blame Mozilla thinking it a bug.

It's not a bad idea, but I can defi itely see why they would leave it out of the regular setup, as it's prone to causing confusion and only really useful for power users. It's ripe to be implemented as an additional addon though.

That's basically the process I went through with 3-4 other complaints I had. On actually thinking through it, they had one of the best sane approaches. Maybe when more people are familiar with the concept and how it acts and looks they can extend it, but there's only so much complexity you can push to the general public at one time.

Re: A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web Store

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Post by matheusmoreira »

taurath wrote: post #403
diimdeep wrote: post #88

Have been using Firefox Nightly for few weeks as only browser. Rock solid. Can recommend few extensions - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-tab-disc... - http://www.one-tab.com - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/multi-touch-z...

FF has never been rock solid for me. Massive CPU usage. Causes my fans to turn on on any MacBook I’ve ever had.

Same experience here. Browsing with Firefox increases my CPU temperature by 10 degrees.
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