• BitsOfBeard@programming.dev
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      1 year ago

      I love Firefox, but we need more variety in browsers and Chromium is just making it worse! There has to be a way to make building browsers simpler without everyone ending up relying on the product that was designed to ruin the free internet.

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      Sure, they just need to fix their annoying bugs on Android.

      Everytime I leave a tab open and switch to another app, it’s a 50/50 whether I return to a black screen and am forced to restart it or it just works fine.

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    That, my friends, is why we kept fighting for firefox. It doesn’t matter if you like or dislike Mozilla foundation, they have to exist because of shit like this

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      Firefox has the same problem with V3, it has nothing to do with the browser, adblocker V2 will stop working, because are the advertising companies wich will use V3 scripts. For Chrome and Chromium the only thing is, that are no more V2 adblocker in the Chrome Store and installed adblock extensions won’t work anymore. after June 24. But don’t panic, the fact that adblocker V2 stops working does not exclude that there will be adblocker V3, the devs of these are not going to rest on their laurels either.

      • histic@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        to my knowledge Firefox is keeping compatibility with most current extensions at least in terms of adblockers and privacy tools as they transition to manifest v3

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      yet we already have a working implementation of ublock origin for mv3 by it’s main developer, gorhill

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        When I read about that like a year ago gorhill had clearly stated that the mv3 version’s efficacy is severely kneecapped and while it works as well as it can it’s extremely bad in comparison to the present version on Firefox and Edge

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            Edge has been picking and choosing what features to carry over and off the top of my head announced they wouldn’t be merging in the most unpopular MV3 changes

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      People don’t even know about manifest v3 let alone switching to Firefox. They will just use whatever google throws at them.

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    This article is really wrong, wow. There is already a Manifest V3-compliant version of uBlock Origin, it’s discussed in this thread: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/338

    I don’t know if it’s stated definitively anywhere, but I’m pretty sure the plan is to roll out that different version to Chrome users as an update to the existing extension. It’s going to be slightly worse because MV3 is still missing some API features.

    • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      that version works but it’s always been a lite version compared to the standard ublock origin with far less capabilities and features.

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    Not sponsored, I just genuinely like the product. Adguard doesn’t require manifests because it works outside the browser.

    On the other news I hope this bullshit is finally the straw that kills chrome.

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      Highly doubt it. So many other browsers on so many platforms (mobile, tv, Auto,…) are built on Chrome and will have this by extension.

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        1 year ago

        And opening most links in Android apps still opens them in Chrome, even if Firefox is your default browser.

        Time for Android to get the EU treatment.