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So glad I peaced out on Chrome in like 2016 over the ugly curved tabs
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Submitted 1 year ago by ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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bitjunkie@lemmy.world 1 year ago
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 1 year ago
There’s no need to wait. Just switch to Firefox now. All the cool kids have already done it.
Tilgare@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I was pretty sure manifest v3 had already happened - but when I knew it was coming, I went ahead and switched ahead of time. Came with the extra bonus that now I’m ad free on mobile too! Mobile websites are absolutely filthy with popovers and 2 sentence paragraphs with an ad between every paragraph. I’m sick of it. And unfortunately I spend so much more time browsing the web from my phone these days than my desktop - so when I swapped on pc to Firefox, it was such a relief to have browser extensions on my phone now too.
sudo@lemmy.today 1 year ago
The cool kids are switching to Librewolf because whatever is happening at Mozilla is increasingly concerning by the day.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Uh-huh. Which uses Mozilla’s renderer. So, all those upstream commits in Libewolf’s code base are coming from where, exactly?
Soggy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Some of us never left.
Empricorn@feddit.nl 1 year ago
Some of us switched to Chrome when it was legitimately better, but are back now.
stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
people who used Firefox since high school😎😎
PunchingWood@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Well, looks like then I might have to start shutting down my use of Chrome.
I used to be fine with adverts, not a big deal. Until they became insanely intrusive. Noticed that YouTube recently stopped to even show the countdown to skip or the length of the actual ad on some devices/apps, so it’s always guesswork when you can actually skip or how long it would run after the skip becomes available. And the amount of ads going in videos is getting disgusting as well, I know it’s partly up to the creators, but fucking hell I often get ads like not even a minute into the video already.
Asafum@feddit.nl 1 year ago
Wasn’t there just an article about how Mozilla is claiming ublock origin shouldn’t be supported anymore and another one claiming they’re starting a focus on ads?
I feel like we’re entering a really shitty time for the Internet… Tie that in with Microsucks Recall feature and computing in general is going to suck…
I don’t want to go touch grass!!
zkfcfbzr@lemmy.world 1 year ago
In fact, uBlock Origin is one of the officially recommended extensions by Mozilla
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
The closest I can find is
ghacks.net/…/mozillas-massive-lapse-in-judgement-…
Which is only the “lite” version (which really has no reason to be used in firefox) and was likely based on an improper scan. Which happens constantly and is usually an email and a few days of waiting rather than immediately going to the press.
If you can find something about Mozilla actually being anti-adblock or disabling manifest v2 that would be incredibly useful. But maybe be aware of what is going on before vaguely making major claims?
Grangle1@lemm.ee 1 year ago
IIRC Mozilla doubled down on their v2 support when Chrome announced the shift to v3. But then the Chrome monopoly judgment came down and with it a lot of speculation on Google dropping their funding of Mozilla, so maybe Mozilla could be changing its tune to either protect or find a replacement for that funding? Nothing of substance is happening yet, it’s still all speculation, but I do hope nothing like that does happen.
VanillaBean@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ve been hearing this for at least a year and a half. Ublock still works fine in Chrome…
Darorad@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You’ve been hearing about it because there’s been a lot of pushback at all stages of them doing it. That doesn’t mean it won’t happen, they’ve kept pushing for it and there’s no indication they won’t go through with it.
AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
The lack of HVEC/h.265 support is kind of a deal breaker. I need it to view h.265 security cameras and the occasional movie streamed via browser.
x00za@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Use Chromium for the security cameras, and use something sensible for all your normal browsing usage?
AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I guess, but the comment is a direct assertion against Firefox growing from this change. You sort of prove my point by suggestion another sub variant of the chrome ecosystem.
iopq@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I guess when edge stops supporting v2 you’ll just look at ads then
I won’t
AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Ad block lite does a good enough job without me changing to be honest, gain the point being is that there are more problems with my using Firefox as a primary browser than ad blocking benefits.
ramble81@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Cool thing is you can run multiple browsers. So just use Chrome for your cameras and Firefox for everything else.
AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Why would I use multiple browsers if I can achieve nearly everything in one? I would my much rather use Edge or Safari for everything than Firefox plus another browser.
Kongar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Can’t you just use chrome for the camera feeds and Firefox (or something else) for everything else?
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Doesn’t uBlock Origin already have a Manifest V3 version of the extension?
Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Yeah, but it sucks, because of the heavy constraints of MV3
Lila_Uraraka@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Yes, though the devs don’t even like it
helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yes, but capabilities are reduced.
lemmyng@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
That’s uBlock Origin Lite, which the developer already stated is grossly inadequate for ad blocking.
Album@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
uBO Lite.
Not my jam, lacks the power of the original.
Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
thr manifest v3 version is basically ublock origin lite, whoch has extremely limited control of what you can and cant do.
DarkCloud@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I downloaded Librewolf today - the privacy oriented fork of Firefox!
Good to see there are browser variants that aren’t just Chrome.
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ve been using librewolf for a several months. Be careful because streaming doesn’t always work on it due to DRM features, and YouTube has been spotty AF. With YouTube it might start the video a couple seconds into it, buffer for no discernable reason, or just skip a few random seconds.
Fashim@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I use firefox but I have to change my useragent string to chrome with an extension to get YouTube working.
Might be worth having a look to see if it fixes your issues
Kbobabob@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Until you actually need a chromium based browser. I get so annoyed when this happens.
LucidNightmare@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Almost 20 years and I’ve never needed a Chromium browser for anything. I’m sorry you were forced to use such garbage ass software.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 1 year ago
There’s still Vivali which is Chromium based and still supporting V2 extension (like uBlock) until June 2025. Its not a full fix, but its a stay of execution. That said, I’m a FF primary user.
skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
In what situation do you need one?
I’ve been using Firefox for over a decade and have literally never once needed to open a different web browser. For anything, ever. This is a very common complaint that tons of people seem to have that I have never seen happen even once out in the wild.
kent_eh@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Chromium isn’t as problematic as Chrome.
Supervisor194@lemmy.world 1 year ago
As if installing and using something else means you can’t have Chrome lying around for that one stupid website.
nutsack@lemmy.world 1 year ago
constantly, to be honest
Album@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
yep firefox with arkenfox for me, same deal as librewolf. And Mull on mobile.
Switched about 2-3 months ago thinking it might be difficult or impact me negatively or something but its been easy and great.
kitnaht@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You know the problem I have with Librewolf? – Fuckall nobody knows how to spell it.
The beauty of Firefox is that even the densest idiot knows how to spell those two words. And with attention spans the equivalent of a gnat, people need to have things simplified for them as much as humanly possible.
Fortunately enough, Firefox is about the only one with a renderer that isn’t controlled by Google, but - even now they’re shifting to a pro-advertising stance and backing off of the privacy orientation that they took just a year or two ago.
MC_Lovecraft@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I remember the internet before Google, and how game changing it was to have all of the internet indexed in one place (even if that wasn’t actually quite true back then). If you had asked me 15, 10, even 5 years ago if I would be cheering its downfall and yearning for a return to a simpler, far less centralized internet, I would have called you crazy. And yet here we are.
NutWrench@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I like the SearX search engine. It gives old-school, relevant search results, not Google ranked ones.
search.inetol.net
It’s also spread out over many separate instances, so you can pick the one that best suits your search needs:
searx.space
spector@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
It wasn’t hard to foresee. We knew these kind of things could happen. The internet used to be very out spoken about it. That ethos is long gone. What’s equally disappointing is tech nerds selling out for bigger paychecks.
billiam0202@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s because the OG visionaries of tech are gone, and have been replaced by MBAs and techbros.
DrGunjah@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.