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Re: Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension

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Post by plqbfbv »

20k wrote: post #53
dotcoma wrote: post #4

Why are people on HN still using Chrome? (or Edge, or Opera…)

For me the two reasons I can't live without are 1. Firefox's ctrl-f search doesn't highlight all instances of a found item on the right hand side. It sounds petty, but its a gigantic timesaver for looking through research documents 2. Firefox's tab crash recovery isn't as solid. I use chrome with fully persistent tabs, and its a gigantic pain if I can't re-open them If I could find a way to fix these I'd swap in a he…

> 2. Firefox's tab crash recovery isn't as solid. I use chrome with fully persistent tabs, and its a gigantic pain if I can't re-open them

I normally have 5-50 tabs open (so perhaps on the lower end), but I can't recall the last time I crashed a tab in the last 3 years. I also use persistent/pinned tabs and never noticed issues.

Re: Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension

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Post by misswaterfairy »

20k wrote: post #53
dotcoma wrote: post #4

Why are people on HN still using Chrome? (or Edge, or Opera…)

For me the two reasons I can't live without are 1. Firefox's ctrl-f search doesn't highlight all instances of a found item on the right hand side. It sounds petty, but its a gigantic timesaver for looking through research documents 2. Firefox's tab crash recovery isn't as solid. I use chrome with fully persistent tabs, and its a gigantic pain if I can't re-open them If I could find a way to fix these I'd swap in a he…

Do these Firefox extensions help?

I haven't used this, as I didn't know it was a feature I needed until you mentioned it.

- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/find-in-page-...

Tab Session Manager allows you to dump tabs to groups for restoration later, with auto-save at regular intervals. Works quite well!

- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-session-m...

Re: Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension

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Post by m-schuetz »

dotcoma wrote: post #4

Why are people on HN still using Chrome? (or Edge, or Opera…)

I switched from Firefox to Chrome a couple of years back because Firefox always dragged its feet when it came to implementing important developer features. Like, DataView was excruciatingly slow in Firefox; WebGPU support didnt go anywhere; and they initially refused to implement import maps. I consider the latter to be an essential tool as it allows me to work without the need for build systems. Also, chrome dev tools worked far better.

Since Chrome blocked ublock, I switched to Edge. Not sure where I will go next, but I dont think it will be Firefox since they are always years late.

Re: Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension

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Post by antibird »

HerbManic wrote: post #28

Just remember that Google is essentially an advertising company and that they were always going to squeeze this opening closed as soon as they could get away with it. I do fear for a future were even Firefox ends up caving in. Ladybird browser might be our only hope until something legal comes along to block functionality.

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Re: Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension

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Post by riffraff »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #25
dotcoma wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All users should demand privacy, but they don’t. Take a look at Firefox’s market share, or Brave’s etc.

Won’t Brave follow Google’s lead on this? Gecko, WebKit and—hopefully—Ladybird are the true alternatives. I used to think this was too extreme. But the ad vendor dragging ad blockers out of the engine flipped my view.

Brave has its own ad blocker engine built-in rather than as an extension, and it can reuse uBlock's lists

https://github.com/brave/adblock-rust

I use brave on my phone and I can't really tell the difference from desktop browser+UO, so I guess it works well enough.

Re: Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension

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Post by rvz »

Brybry wrote: post #82
palmotea wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Firefox haven't caved in so far. Why do u think it might in future? Because pretty much all their revenue comes from Google.

I think Google will try to annoy Firefox users into using Chrome instead via things like needless captchas.

They will do both. Firefox has zero leverage to do anything and is on life support with Google's money.
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