Google is going to release new manifest v3. How could it harm uBlock Origin? And will Firefox and Safari become the only major browsers that fully support uBlock Origin?
Google is going to release new manifest v3. How could it harm uBlock Origin? And will Firefox and Safari become the only major browsers that fully support uBlock Origin?
Geez just use Firefox already. A browser from an ad company is gonna serve u ads. 🥸 And then you don’t have to waste your time on this bullshit
I’ve been saying this for damn near 15 years. It’s odd that people migrated from Firefox to Chrome in the first place. Obviously not everyone who uses Chrome did that but I know quite a few people who did and are now talking about switching back. These are people who generally believe independent and open source is the best way to go too.
I migrated from Firefox to Chrome years and years ago when Chrome was lightning fast with a bazillion tabs open and Firefox had some memory leak that forced me to reload a couple times a day. I have since moved back and realized all my old problems are no longer a thing, but I can definitely see why some would have made the switch and never tried moving back.
Sadly, this is because FF wasn’t a good browser for many for a hot minute. Many websites, particularly ones with media, didn’t work well with it. I was one of the ones who switched during this time. I didn’t use Chrome, personally, but I can see why some chose it as an option when facing the same problems I had. FF has since fixed these issues and I switched back to FF quite awhile ago.
Yeah that’s when Google was fucking with the Mozilla Foundation.
I temporarily moved to Chrome but back to FF as soon as it was reasonably possible.
From what I saw. It was more Internet Explorer to Chrome.
Back in the day Firefox wasn’t as polished as it was now. Think more Open Office than Libre Office.
All machines had IE and it sucked, crashed but was default. Then I tried Chrome and it was good. Then moved everyone to it since the alternatives weren’t as good.
Years later, chrome is still good compared to IE, but now Firefox is slightly better. For all intent and purpose it’s the same but some qol features here and there made me move.
But for everyone else they don’t want or need to move. So until it gets worse than IE they’ll stay.
Mozilla is a sketchy company that pays their CEO as much as they get in yearly donations then act like they’re the good underdog guys that survive off of those donations.
They have giant cash reserves that they refuse to use to make Gecko safer. They pay several senior engineers salaries’ worth of money to political organisations instead.
They’re just not as successful as Google at being trash.
I mean if you can name an alternative that isn’t dogshit, go for it. Sadly, web engines are ridiculously complex pieces of software to build, much less build well, and until something comes along that doesn’t rely on Chromium or Mozilla or WebKit in general, we’re forever going to be someone’s bitch.
Although maybe your point is just that we need to stop pretending there are any good guy players in this bullshit game, in which case, i agree.
That was my point, yes.