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Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable uBlock Origin

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Re: Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable uBlock Origin

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Post by kirion25 »

sergiosgc wrote: post #234
mark-r wrote: post #196

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's still a feature of Chrome that keeps me from switching - Chrome will show a lot more tabs open. I tend to leave a lot of inactive tabs to come back to later, but that means I need to see them all.

Install Tree Style Tab on Firefox. Moves tabs to a tree on the left. You can see a lot more, and better organized too. In the era of landscape screens, I think it's a must. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...

For native vertical tabs, you can also check Vivaldi.

I have a hard time understanding why, with widescreen so common nowadays, it isn't a standard native feature in all browsers.

Re: Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable uBlock Origin

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Post by aylmao »

criddell wrote: post #189
QML wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Firefox just doesn’t have enough advantages yet that would convince someone comfortable with Chrome to switch over. While privacy is an ever growing concern, it isn’t a strong enough feature for most people.

Plus Chrome just works better for a lot of sites. That might be because the site isn't properly coded, but users don't care. They just want something that works and more often than not, that's Chrome. My main browser is Firefox, but I have to switch over to Chrome more often than I would like. Electron is also based on Chromium, isn't it? IMHO, the rise of Electron just reinforces Chromium's status and I think Micros…

> IMHO, the rise of Electron just reinforces Chromium's status

+1. I'm hopeful of Servo. So far it (ServoShell) also a good 50MB smaller than Electron which would be a very good reason for developers to switch. It'll all depend on API compatibility at the time of release I guess.

Re: Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable uBlock Origin

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Post by dralley »

_ks3e wrote: post #442
dylan604 wrote: post #403

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> and I don't like Firefox's UI/UX Maybe I'm not as critical about the UI, but I have both browsers open at the same time so I took a second to compare them. Both browsers have a row of tabs. Below that is a second row. The left most set of buttons is navigation (back, forward, refresh, etc), then the address bar, then on the very right of the row is a set of buttons for extensions, settings, etc. The remaining porti…

Firefox doesn't deal with touchscreen and touchpad gestures very well. Take, for instance, the two-finger pinch-zoom-in gesture. Chrom(ium), Opera, Edge, Safari etc. all smoothly and instantaneously magnify the area where the mouse is. Firefox, on the other hand, reflows the entire page with each zoom (as the other browsers do when you do a ctrl +/- zoom), which is inconsistent with how we're used to interacting with…

Try nightly with WebRender enabled and see if it's still an issue. I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't.

Re: Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable uBlock Origin

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Post by zmmmmm »

yogthos wrote: post #252
metalliqaz wrote: post #4

Another reason to be glad that Firefox is still standing.

I really don't understand why people prefer Chrome to Firefox, it's a better browser all around in my experience.

I use FireFox full time, but I think it's inferior to Chrome. It's uglier, slower and clunkier. I use it because although I'm more than happy to hand a lot of my digital life over to Google (and I'm really not a zealot about this), the ability to observe every single web site I visit ever and every interaction I have with those sites is just a bridge too far.

Re: Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable uBlock Origin

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Post by dang »

nobody271 wrote: post #408
dragonwriter wrote: post #114

The design doc — the part quoted in the note linked here even — explicitly notes that it will probably be required to retain some degree of the existing functionality slated for eventually removal until the new API and other replacements cover all use cases; the response linked here appears to (not improperly, in the context of making a case for why much of the functionality is needed) ignoring that and treating the…

wut

Please don't do this here.

Re: Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable uBlock Origin

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Post by AznHisoka »

angott wrote: post #454
AznHisoka wrote: post #371

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A question: Would this proposed change mean all Chrome extensions can no longer know what URL I am currently visiting? if so, I guess one company (whose name starts with a S) is gonna be dreading this.

No, only the blocking API is concerned. Observational capacity will remain.

Damn, that's like tossing out the baby, with the bathwater still in the tub. Throw out the good. Keep the bad..

Re: Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable uBlock Origin

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Post by [deleted] »

_ks3e wrote: post #442
dylan604 wrote: post #403

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> and I don't like Firefox's UI/UX Maybe I'm not as critical about the UI, but I have both browsers open at the same time so I took a second to compare them. Both browsers have a row of tabs. Below that is a second row. The left most set of buttons is navigation (back, forward, refresh, etc), then the address bar, then on the very right of the row is a set of buttons for extensions, settings, etc. The remaining porti…

Firefox doesn't deal with touchscreen and touchpad gestures very well. Take, for instance, the two-finger pinch-zoom-in gesture. Chrom(ium), Opera, Edge, Safari etc. all smoothly and instantaneously magnify the area where the mouse is. Firefox, on the other hand, reflows the entire page with each zoom (as the other browsers do when you do a ctrl +/- zoom), which is inconsistent with how we're used to interacting with…

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Re: Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable uBlock Origin

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Post by mirimir »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #471
Mirioron wrote: post #467

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I'm just waiting for the time until websites won't load at all unless you have hardware DRM turned on that will take all of your control away. > Extensions act on behalf of users, they add capabilities to a user agent, and deprecating the blocking ability of the webRequest API will essentially decrease the level of user agency in Chromium This is off-topic, but I felt the same way about most data privacy problems. It…

> I'm just waiting for the time until websites won't load at all unless you have hardware DRM turned on that will take all of your control away. I already leave websites that become unusable with adblock on, or without it on. It will just trim down on the amount of sites I go on.

Same here.

If it's something I'm particularly interested in, I look for a cache, snapshot or whatever.

Edit: Or just read HN comments.

Re: Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable uBlock Origin

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Post by phs318u »

sixothree wrote: post #33
metalliqaz wrote: post #4

Another reason to be glad that Firefox is still standing.

I really just don't understand the obsession with Chrome, especially in hacker communities. Sorry Google, I feel "icky & gross" when I use you.

Given the claim that with Google, you (the user) are the product, your statement that, "Sorry Google, I feel 'icky & gross' when I use you", would be more accurately expressed as, "Sorry Google, I feel 'icky & gross' when I let you use me."

EDITED: re-phrased for clarification.

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