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uBlock Origin developer recommends switching to Firefox as Chrome flags the extension

~~www.neowin.net/news/…/~~

EDIT: Apologies. Updated with a link to what gorhill REALLY said:

Manifest v2 uBO will not be automatically replaced by Manifest v3 uBOL[ight]. uBOL is too different from uBO for it to silently replace uBO – you will have to explicitly make a choice as to which extension should replace uBO according to your own prerogatives.

Ultimately whether uBOL is an acceptable alternative to uBO is up to you, it’s not a choice that will be made for you.

**Will development of uBO continue?**Yes, there are other browsers which are not deprecating Manifest v2, e.g. Firefox.

cyborganism ,

Well I don’t use Chrome, so…

DarkThoughts ,

I already switched to Firefox after Netscape.

bluemite ,

Skipped over the original Mozilla?

Thann ,
@Thann@lemmy.ml avatar

o7

vga ,

I’ve been using Chromium because it has excellent profiles support built-in. Firefox’s profile separation works via a plugin and is just awkward, unless something has improved recently.

knight ,

Multi-account containers?

vga ,

Those don’t exactly do what I want – which is clear separation of different work accounts. I’m not sure if this is what I need though, so perhaps I should take another look at what you suggested.

beyoublahaj ,
@beyoublahaj@lemmy.world avatar

In firefox, type “about:profiles” in the search bar and press enter. (Please note that this shouldnt open your search engine) This will open a menu in that tab that claims: “This page helps you to manage your profiles. Each profile is a separate world which contains separate history, bookmarks, settings and add-ons.” I hope this is close enough to the solution youre after!

aceshigh ,
@aceshigh@lemmy.world avatar

I have a Chromebook, what do I need to do to get ubo? From my understanding, Firefox is not supported in the browser so I’d need to get Linux? How does security work with Linux?

nexussapphire ,

Firewalled for limiting untrustworthy connections to the computer(public networks, hotels, even work).

apparmor for protecting the kernel and controlling file access to applications. SELinux is also a good option but if you need to load kernel modules, it can take a few minutes to sign and register it. It is automated on redhat systems though.

Other than that, do your research and don’t run random scripts and install random apps.

aceshigh ,
@aceshigh@lemmy.world avatar

I wonder why you’re getting downvoted

nexussapphire ,

I don’t know, they’re just security measures you can take. Maybe some personal preference thing. I don’t bother with the app guard thing and SELinux is pretty annoying with my Nvidia graphics card but a firewall is something I always setup.

dyc3 ,

www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/…/chromebook/

TheFrirish ,

I don’t want to let go of my poor Vivaldi it’s a blast of a browser

mke , (edited )

Oh, how I get you! I managed to switch to Firefox after a while, but it took some adapting, and still I miss some of Vivaldi’s features. That sidebar is simply fantastic.

Katana314 ,

Not quite on topic, but: This past week developers at my company have been slammed by the Chrome DevTools debugger freezing when you hit a breakpoint. There’s been no tracked bug and no timeline from Chrome on a fix. It’s been a little bit of a lesson in having just one browser engine.

ShortFuse ,

I’ve been using uBOLite for about a year and I’m pretty happy with it. You don’t have to give the extension access to the content on the page and all the filtering on the browser engine, not over JavaScript.

fine_sandy_bottom ,

I hadn’t heard of this.

The FAQ says it’s not a 1 for 1 replacement. There’s a lot of features which can’t be ported.

It’s probably better than nothing for most people, but not as good as uBO was.

Still, I wonder why it’s not mentioned more often.

BarbecueCowboy ,

Did I miss a piece? I don’t see anywhere in the original statement where firefox is actively recommended, just mentioned as an example.

Aatube ,

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-best-on-Firefox

Phoenicianpirate ,

I only use chrome when checking my Gmail account. Brave is my go-to.

M0oP0o ,
@M0oP0o@mander.xyz avatar

Guess you get to find out if this will be effecting all of chromium or just chrome…

Traister101 ,

Brave is forked from Chromium so hypothetically they could maintain V2 but they’d need their own store as they currently rely on Googles

M0oP0o ,
@M0oP0o@mander.xyz avatar

Guess we will see if Brave is all talk or not in the coming years.

0oWow ,

Brave has added a feature to explicitly enable MV2 apps and install uBo directly from Brave settings. You can also install uMatrix and Adguard MV2 versions also.

M0oP0o ,
@M0oP0o@mander.xyz avatar

Or you could just Avoid chromium browsers and help the browser landscape from becoming a sea of chrome.

0oWow ,

And jump to the clone? Mozilla isn’t better (consider their recent Ad Privacy clone), they just have less market share.

That said, I use Firefox and Brave. Whatever I feel like at the time.

M0oP0o ,
@M0oP0o@mander.xyz avatar

The clone? Are you implying that mozilla (founded 1998) is a clone of chrome (first launched 2008)?

Just use anything but chome or chromium if you can. Just don’t feed the beast now known as alphabet.

megopie ,

There are plenty of browsers built on Gecko that aren’t fire fox. So if you don’t trust Mozilla to build your browser, and don’t want your ad blocker bricked by Google, you have options.

pewgar_seemsimandroid ,

PPAPI really ruined this all NPAPI FTW

gwen ,

umatrix better

Lets_Eat_Grandma ,

from the umatrix chrome store reviews:

It’s great for advanced users, for the time being. The project is no longer being developed (since 2021) and the Github repository has been archived. It will probably, mostly, continue to work for years. Probably. Apparently you can get some support from uBlock github site, I have no knowledge on the details of this.

github backs that up github.com/gorhill/uMatrix

From the looks of things it still works but i’m afraid to recommend something that isn’t maintained to normal users.

ILikeBoobies ,

It’s going to have the same problems as uBlock

gwen ,

fair enough, ublock is absolutely better for regular users.

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