What are folks seeing for Firefox market share? Most online sources say FF is around 3%. My tech blog and tech projects see FF at 13%, which highlights that different user groups have differing browser preferences. Degrading ad blockers seems like something that should drive people to FF.
Google Chrome's plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week
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Re: Google Chrome's plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
I certainly will switch to Firefox (which I already use on my phone) if ad blocking stops working in Chrome. I'm really only on Chrome out of inertia - the developer tools in Firefox is just different enough that I haven't put in enough time to learn my way around it.
The dev tools in Firefox are actually nicer in some cases.. -> Boom, console open inspecting the element under the cusrsor. Chrome requires more clicks.
Just hit F12. Even faster, and it'll remember if you were in the console or the inspector the last time you closed it on that page. I use it quite a bit to just delete elements for pages I'm only going to visit once or twice, but don't want to spend time messing with my adblocker on.
Re: Google Chrome's plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week
#53Back to Firefox!
I've been a Firefox user forever (I used Chrome for a while, but switched back to Firefox many years ago), and I am still continually baffled that anyone "in the know" uses Chrome. But they do. And I doubt this change will cause any kind of Chrome exodus, if nothing else Google has done up to this point has triggered that.
I started using Chrome in 2011. Went back to Firefox in 2014 once Chrome became a massive RAM glutton. I keep telling others to move to Firefox, but they won't because "Everyone develops for Chrome so I just test in Chrome," or "But I don't feel like moving all my passwords and bookmarks." This, despite me proving time and again how much better Firefox has been for a decade now.
Re: Google Chrome's plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week
#54Regarding links in the article, it’s definitely lacking (as mentioned links like this: https://blog.chromium.org/2024/05/manifest-v2-phase-out-begi... ) but also why don’t articles like this offer a consistent set of alternate browsers like Firefox, Safari & all the Chromium derivatives (Brave, DuckDuckGo & Arc) that include ad blockers? I get that there’s a difference between those & the free choice to pick your ad…
I use Vivaldi and love it. I hope their built-in ad-blocking continues to work even if the uBlock Origin extension does not.
I'd go and download the MV2 version of the extension today. Vivaldi lets you load extensions directly from .crx files (unlike Chrome, which refuses to run extensions that were not published on the Chrome store), and MV2 extensions will probably keep working in Chromium for at least a year since Google has said they will allow some special enterprise extensions to keep using MV2 for a while.
Re: Google Chrome's plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week
#55I use Firefox and have never understood why so many people use a browser made by a for profit company
Be nice if there was a way to embed FireFox. It's the only reason I will still use Chromium (Cef) and Edge (WebView2) once V2 is no longer supported.
Re: Google Chrome's plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week
#56What about chromium alternatives like Arc and Kiwi? Will they keep manifest V2?
if they are chromium based and google pulls the v2 out of chromium, then it would be up to the forks to maintain v2 being re-added and security updates being applied and maintained ny their teams
a better question is why does one _need_ chrome; or to use strictly one browser for that matter? bookmarks are literally a text list of urls (many alterneratives to sharing these between browsers/devices); history features (to my useage needs the history features have lacked since the browser was invented). shared sessions, like resuming a video between devices - can be done via logging into many sites. saved passwords? dont save passwords in the browser- - many alternatives exist.
try not to limit yourself in the tools which are available, there are many and they are not hard to learn
tried LibreWolf yet?
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Re: Google Chrome's plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week
#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
The vast majority of people working on Firefox are employees of the Mozilla Corporation which is a for profit subsidiary of the Foundation. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/governance/organizations...
the foundation owns the corporation and can dissolve it if it turns evil. There's no similar public-good outfit that can dissolve Google.
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Re: Google Chrome's plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week
#58What are folks seeing for Firefox market share? Most online sources say FF is around 3%. My tech blog and tech projects see FF at 13%, which highlights that different user groups have differing browser preferences. Degrading ad blockers seems like something that should drive people to FF. https://indieweb.social/@robalex/112472853515037460
It's no surprise that mainstream uses chrome and more tech focused use firefox. That shouldn't be a revelation.
Re: Google Chrome's plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week
#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
The vast majority of people working on Firefox are employees of the Mozilla Corporation which is a for profit subsidiary of the Foundation. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/governance/organizations...
the foundation owns the corporation and can dissolve it if it turns evil. There's no similar public-good outfit that can dissolve Google.
No, this effectively means that the corporation can do evil and will always point to its owner being non-profit as a justification for doing more evil. The corpo gets a "kind face" behind which it can do dirty deeds.
Inclusion of Pocket in Firefox is a representative example - included despite overwhelming community objections for more profit!
Re: Google Chrome's plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week
#60Chrome is ahead of the curve, driving innovation and making the internet a better place, again and again and again.
I hope this was sarcastic