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Comment on Google looks to be fully shutting down unsupported extensions and ad blockers in Chrome, such as uBlock Origin – which might push some folks to switch to Firefox

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shneancy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

as a chromium browser user - i’ve been meaning to switch to firefox, and i know it’ll take me maybe a day, but it feels like so much workkkk. In a similar fashion i’ve been meaning to switch to Linux for ages too. I guess it just hasn’t gotten bad enough for me to take action

as long as my adblockers & script blockers work, i’m not forced to upgrade to win11, and win10 still has security updates i don’t think it’s pushing on my discomfort buttons strong enough. I know the day will come, but like with a lot of things in my life - why do something today when i can do it tomorrow?

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wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
What do you mean “work”? What is it that needs to move?

You just fire up Firefox and start using it. It’ll even scrape your chrome setup to move bookmarks and stuff over.

It’s not an OS. It’s an application.

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- shneancy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  i don’t use chrome itself. i have a lot of saved things, roughly a million tabs open at every moment, and passwords saved which i do not remember
  
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  - wanderingmagus@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    There’s extensions to export all your open tabs and then a similar extension to import those tabs and open them as a session in Firefox. Source: I, too, have a million tabs open at every moment, and had to do that to transition myself. Same for exporting/importing passwords.
    
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  - Hadriscus@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    This is all mostly automatically transfered over… I don’t know about passwords though
    
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    billiam0202@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    I’m not sure if Firefox pulls passwords when you import your data, but you can manually export passwords from Chrome and import them into Firefox.
    
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yikerman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
That’s some procrastination going on. Sometimes you should force yourself to start doing something for a minute or so and things will eventually change.

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jape@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I feel you. It’s vey much a convenience thing, and sitting down with something you’re used to.

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alphabethunter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I use Opera for myself, but I have to use Chrome for work reasons (user profiles for different work areas based on whatever email is being used at the company computer). Thing is, Firefox also lacks the feature that makes me use Opera: speed dial. My Opera starting page is my speed dials, and speed dials are 10x better than just bookmarks, and I wouldn’t want to go through all the trouble of transfering literally hundreds of saved pages to standard bookmarks. But, if ublock fully stops working, guess I’ll have no choice.

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