Comment on Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads

faethon@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• miridius@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Personal preference I guess. I’ve tried Firefox many times over the years and always ended up going back to other browsers. I find Firefox doesn’t render some pages quite right, the user agent stylesheet is odd, and the UI is less streamlined. Performance also used to be a problem although I hear it’s caught up now.

  I used to be a Chrome user but now I prefer chromium based alternatives like brave and edge (which incidentally, uBO will keep working on). Chrome is still required for work, but uBO change won’t be an issue I think, there are plenty of other ad blockers that will work with MV3

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• RangerJosie@sffa.community ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Use chrome to download Firefox.

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  • ruabmbua@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Back in the day when I still used windows, I did not even use IE to download Firefox. I used the FTP functionality inside the explorer to download Firefox from the Mozilla FTP.

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  • ColdWater@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I didn’t even need a browser to download another browser, I just git clone it from the AUR :P

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    • mrvictory1@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Just curl it from Mozilla, they provide an archive file that’s distro agnostic.

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• Prethoryn@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I am using Firefox as of last week I made the switch to the browser a different password manager and so far it is fine but there have been a couple of hiccups but it’s not necessarily a Firefox issue but an implementation with Android issue.

  For example auto forwarding to an app from a webpage in Firefox has worked half the time for me and the other half not so much.

  This is a small example, having Google Chrome and like wise the Google app be native to Android so they move back and forth between one another and are interchangeable while using my phone is much more smooth on my Android device.

  Other than that, I am not positive as to why. On Desktop, zero issues. Works like a charm.

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  • ocassionallyaduck@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Its cool well just message the maintainers of Android to improve it, I’m sure it’s a mistake. Lemme go check who who’s behind it… /s

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  • TheBloodFarts@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Being able to cast seamlessly from Chrome to Chromecast is the only major issue I’ve had since switching to Firefox. It’s possible with Firefox and it works 99% of the time but it feels a little clunky. Completely worth it though overall and not a dealbreaker

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    • mrvictory1@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hot do you cast from Firefox?

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      • TheBloodFarts@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Search up the fx_cast extension

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• mipadaitu@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I use multiple profiles in chrome for my different logged in usages, for some reason Firefox makes it hard to switch profiles.

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  • LiamMayfair@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Look up the Firefox Containers extension.

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  • minstrel@lemmy.eco.br ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    it has something like ‘-no-remote -p name’ param on cmd that you can do it seamless like chromium, or u can use the fork of the drop official pwa firefox support, it could be better, i know n i get it, but if u just use chromium base for it, than i got u covered

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• rooster_butt@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Because I use chrome for standard use and Firefox for sailing the high seas. And I much prefer just having 2 separate browsers for containerization. I’m just going to have to use librewolf or something when I do get the the mv3 update.

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  • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Why not just use something like Fences on Firefox? It allows you to containerize individual tabs. I use it all the time to separate work and personal accounts.

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    • faethon@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This is also how I have it set up, with “firefox multi-account containers” and “simple tab groups” working together, you can have multiple containerized accounts within one firefox instance. Works great!

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    • rooster_butt@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Does this allow you enable/disable addons on a per container basis?

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