Comment on Opera explains how it plans to keep uBlock Origin support as Google Chrome disables it

• partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And considering basically everyone but Firefox (and maybe Safari?) are based on Chromium to some degree…

  Opera Browser (before it was sold to a Chinese company) did have its own browser engine before it went Chromium. It was called Presto. source. The team that used to own/run Opera before the sale to China formed again to make the Vivaldi browser.

  Vivaldi and Brave will continue to support Manifest V2 addons (like uBlock Origin) until July 2025. The article doesn’t say how long Opera will continue, but I’m guessing its the same deadline of July too.

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  • cfi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Presto era Opera was fantastic. At the time Firefox was kinda stagnating and Opera was just innovating.

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    • seaQueue@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You might like Vivaldi, they’re the most innovative chromium derived browser that I’ve used

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      • original_reader@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I love Vivaldi. An sad it’s Chromium. Wish Firefox would take a page out of Vivaldi’s features book and innovation approach.

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  • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So… basically everyone but Firefox (and maybe Safari?) are based on Chromium to some degree?

    Because if there is not massive amounts of money and resources pumped into Chromium development? Vivaldi and Brave will be up a creek

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    • partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      So… basically everyone but Firefox (and maybe Safari?) are based on Chromium to some degree?

      Yes.

      Because if there is not massive amounts of money and resources pumped into Chromium development? Vivaldi and Brave will be up a creek

      Well, the browser will function just fine with Manifest V2 support removed in July 2025, but lots of addons will no longer work.

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      • qprimed@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        without addons to control internet crazy, that word “function” is doing some heavy lifting.

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      • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yes. Which was not the topic being discussed.

        The idea was that Google Chrome would lose a significant market share because of this. And, on the off chance that somehow happens, that is basically a death sentence for all the browsers dependent on Chromium.

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    • boonhet@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      So… basically everyone but Firefox (and maybe Safari?) are based on Chromium to some degree?

      Technically Chromium is based on Safari to some degree, but they split ways a long, long time ago.

      Ladybird is eventually going to be a brand new browser on its’ own engine, hopefully.

      Servo is being worked on again, so that’s something.

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• pennomi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Safari is WebKit, which branched off from Chrome when Google forked WebKit into Blink. So they’re like siblings.

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  • stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Technically, Chrome branched off from Safari when they forked WebKit into Blink…

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    • pennomi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah the way I phrased it was super awkward

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• grubbyweasel@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  good. a massive shakeup like that would be great

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