Will ublock Origin be blocked on chrome soon?πππ
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?
I find it hard to believe that there's any overlap on the Venn Diagram between people technologically literate to use the Fediverse and people who still use Chrome. I'm always shocked to see posts like this. For OP, join us
If it doesn't work with Firefox and a VPN I just don't use that service anymore. Im not going to go out of my way to use a service that doesn't support certain browsers. Except for my bank.... They win that battle against the VPN
One of my computers is a Chromebook (which I was required to have in order to run my college's proctoring spyware, and bought before the Manifest V3 controversy was a thing). I've tried running Firefox on it inside the Linux virtual environment but it doesn't work well, and the issue hasn't been urgent enough to be worth blowing away Chrome OS and making it into a normal Linux laptop yet.
I started using Firefox back when it was called Phoenix so it pains me to say this. Firefox pretty much sucks. For a long time, their biggest selling point is itβs not Chrome. Itβs noticeably slower than Chrome and, outside of a few nice features, itβs been stagnant for a while. It routinely lags behind and hasnβt really innovated anything in years. The UI hasnβt changed materially since like 2004. Is a tabbed window the best we can do? It was great back then but now we use so many web apps that the tabs are unwieldy.
A free, open source browser should be an incredible priority. I would put it up there with Linux in terms of importance. Instead of treating the project as important, Mozilla is screwing around with Pocket, a VPN and email masking. What the hell? Itβs pathetic. They wouldnβt even be in business at all if they werenβt being paid by Google. The organization is rudderless and it shows in Firefox.