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Cpo ,

I’m in the process of switching to firefox on all my devices.

I’ve had enough of Google pushing features like this.

Tilgare ,

Having ublock on mobile is such a breath of fresh air. I wish I had made the transition sooner. I knew this was coming and completed my transition a few weeks back so I could abandon Chrome on my own time table and not on Google’s. Other than a little headache trying to find extension replacements for pc, I’m LOVING it.

zarenki ,

I switched from Chrome to Firefox in 2019 because that’s when Google adopted Manifest V3 and I never looked back. There were already articles then describing how it’d break ad blockers, and Firefox had at the time just recently released their “Quantum” overhaul which drastically improved responsiveness.

I’m a bit surprised it took five years for Google to drop support for Manifest V2, but the threat has long been there.

uranibaba ,

I remember the Quantum release. They remade how the browser handled tabs, and with the new release you could handle (almost) unlimited number of tabs. I tried this buy opening as many tabs as I could, it worked flawlessly. I can’t even remember how it was before that, except that it was RAM intensive.

Modern_medicine_isnt ,

I use Firefox as my main on my home pc. I keep running into things that don’t work on Firefox. Not by saying they don’t, just by throwing errors that make it sound like I put the wrong data in a field. Is there some magic extension to fix that?

AFC1886VCC ,

“The browser built to be yours”

Hahaha sure thing Google

Capricorn_Geriatric ,

“The browser built to be piping your data into our hands”

There, fixed.

Gestrid ,

The headline is a bit overdramatic. Google hasn’t pulled uBlock Origin off its extension webstore. Rather, it’s switching from Manifest v2 to Manifest v3, which won’t support features the current version of uBlock Origin needs to work. We’ve known this was in the process of happening for months. It’s a good reminder of what’s coming eventually (namely, the fact v2 extensions will be entirely disabled by Chrome soon), but this is nothing new.

thetreesaysbark ,

Do you know if this is at the chrome or chromium level?

TheGrandNagus ,

Chromium. However other chromium browser’s have said they’ll either patch it to keep manifest V2 compatibility, or they won’t but you can still use their inbuilt ad-blocking.

Yambu ,

LibreWolf.

texasspacejoey ,

I miss the “dont be evil” version of google. Its like, large amounts of money ruin everything

ColonelPanic ,

It’s not just large amounts of money. It’s chasing more and more money each quarter, and when it starts slowing down panic sets in and they start trying to find any and every possible avenue to keep profits up. It’s how we’ve ended up in subscription based hell and it’ll only get worse.

Netrunner ,
@Netrunner@programming.dev avatar

I pulled the plug on allowing chrome user agents on my domain.

Granted its tiny but I’m making people switch.

This is the juncture.

P.s. yes I know the cavaets all my services work fine tyvm.

jaemo ,

404 Ethics not found. Go be evil elsewhere.

Has a nice ring to it. Though google deserves their own special fuck-you http status. Maybe we can crack the 600s

Morphit ,
@Morphit@feddit.uk avatar

1xx: hold on
2xx: here you go
3xx: go away
4xx: you fucked up
5xx: I fucked up
6xx: Google fucked up

Netrunner ,
@Netrunner@programming.dev avatar

666 doing evil

ansiz ,

I wonder if the DoJ actually does split up Google if separating Chrome would make any difference with behavior like this?

redditReallySucks ,
@redditReallySucks@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Chrome on its own does not bring ans revenue. It would then require donations

Liz ,

I wonder if we could force a world where browsers are purely donation supported.

DarkThoughts ,

Chrome is used to get a tighter grip on the www and form it to Google's vision (one that is very anti consumer). If Chrome dies, it would be a net benefit for all.

Masterkraft0r ,

cackles in firefox…

tigeruppercut ,

It’s like the reporter went out of his way to not mention ff at the end of the article:

uBlock Origin will continue to work as usual across other browsers, including Microsoft Edge, Opera, and more.

MigratingtoLemmy ,

Edge isn’t using manifest v3?

Evilcoleslaw ,

It is, it’s deadline is just a little farther out.

Schadrach , (edited )

Advertising company makes it harder to block ads on their browser, news at 11.

Or did anyone forget that they made an explicit effort to block another ad blocking extension a while back, including blocking it from the Chrome store, blocking you from installing it manually and even blocking at least some versions of it from being manually installed in developer mode?

Ad nauseam, because it also simulated ad clicks and thus ruined their metrics.

EDIT: Fucking phone autocorrect. “as clocks” -> “ad clicks”.

quissberry ,

Look like I need to convince my dad to switch now

Contravariant ,

Reminds me of the time I did roughly the same thing trying to get people to move away from internet explorer.

capital ,

Would he notice if you just installed Firefox and changed the icon to Chrome?

TypicalHog ,

Brave will continue to support manifest V2.

faethon ,
@faethon@lemmy.world avatar

At this point I am seriously wondering why people would like to use Chrome over Firefox for instance.

mipadaitu ,

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

palordrolap ,

"Hard" is a strong word. It's not built into the default interface, granted, but it's not that hard to use FF's command line: firefox -P

They have said they're thinking about rejigging the whole thing though.

mipadaitu ,

Ok, telling people to open a command line and TYPE firefox -P is HARD. In chrome you just click the icon in the upper right and select whatever profile you want.

It makes no sense that you have to either open about:profiles then select “launch in new window” or open the command line to start a new profile, makes NO sense at all.

You can open a firefox private window with a keyboard shortcut, but if you want to be logged into two different accounts in two different profiles, you have to go through a minimum of three non-intuitive steps.

Even the extension that adds the profile switching doesn’t work anymore because it’s not maintained.

palordrolap ,

Dude, if that's all-caps HARD, then I don't know how you'd classify, say, compiling things from source and fixing any problems that might crop up along the way. Or fixing missing DLL / OCX hell when trying to get an old Windows game running under Linux, because let me tell you, I've done both of those and had to give up. firefox -P is heaven by comparison.

You could even put it into a shortcut and you wouldn't have to type it any more.

Yes the interface sucks, but HARD is not it.

Bongles ,

Sure, but you know most people do not have to do what you just described.

palordrolap ,

Most people don't need multiple profiles either.

Bongles ,

Fair enough

LiamMayfair ,

Look up the Firefox Containers extension.

DarkThoughts ,

The profile manager is definitely annoying, but it shouldn't be that hard to visit about:profiles to switch / open other profiles. Afaik they do work on a better one though.

minstrel ,

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

Prethoryn ,
@Prethoryn@lemmy.world avatar

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.

ocassionallyaduck ,

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

TheBloodFarts ,

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

mrvictory1 ,

How do you cast from Firefox?

TheBloodFarts ,

Search up the fx_cast extension

RangerJosie ,

Use chrome to download Firefox.

kungen ,

That’s Edge’s job. Though I guess they’re basically the same thing…

RangerJosie ,

Equally fkin useless.

I wish I had a 1.0 version of netscape saved somewhere so I could use it.

ColdWater ,
@ColdWater@lemmy.ca avatar

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

mrvictory1 ,

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

ruabmbua ,

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.

miridius ,

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

rooster_butt ,

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.

PM_Your_Nudes_Please ,

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.

faethon ,
@faethon@lemmy.world avatar

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!

rooster_butt ,

Does this allow you enable/disable add-ons on a per container basis? What about bookmarks?

CynicusRex ,
@CynicusRex@lemmy.ml avatar

“What’s a browser?” —the general populace

I just install uBlock Origin on every device I come across. Graffiti software.

RizzRustbolt ,

That is a choice thumbnail.

idefix ,

There’s only 34 million uBlock Origin users on Chrome? So, billions are using Chrome without any ad-blockers? That’s crazy and unsafe

Crozekiel ,

Most users are fucking idiots and will continue to raw-dog the internet while visiting the most malicious sites possible.

Deepus ,

I feel like you’ve worked helpdesk at some point.

Nightwingdragon ,

Worked IT. Can confirm.

Crozekiel ,

Yes. Unfortunately. “a virus? How did I get that? What’s an anti-virus? You must be wrong, I just do a little bit of web browsing and downloading music.” (this was in the windows xp days that I’m specifically flashing back to)

stinerman ,
@stinerman@midwest.social avatar

https://midwest.social/pictrs/image/cdcbeae9-b40a-4e13-94e1-75072308b1b6.png

jjagaimo ,

A lot of them don’t know the difference between ab, abp ublock and ublock origin

LordWiggle ,
@LordWiggle@lemmy.world avatar

There are also loads of people using Edge.

PM_Your_Nudes_Please ,

Lemmy has a really biased idea of what the average computer user can do. Imagine Janet in accounting, who calls help desk to reset her password every morning, and takes 30 minutes to remember how to check her email. Or the late GenZ just entering the workforce, who was surprised that their desktop wasn’t a touchscreen, and doesn’t know how a file structure works, because literally every device they’ve used growing up has been either a tablet or a Chromebook. That’s the average user.

asexualchangeling ,

I don’t classify them as computer “users” personally, I think of them as computer butcherers

alphabethunter ,

My boss once asked me to take a look at her computer that was super slow and barely functional, and the thing that surprised me the most was that she had been running Chrome without any adblock since ever, and when I asked her about adblock, she answered: “adwhat?”. Mind you that she’s still a millennial, and only a few years older than me.

BangCrash ,

I had to use my parents desktop a when I flew home for a bit.

Surfing the internet is fucking stressful if you don’t have adblocks. So overstimulating!!

I’m also on windows and for some reason I had to use Edge.

The Edge home screen is the VERY REASON google killed it back in the 90s. Clean clear search screen. Allows you to think what you are doing with out getting bombarded with ads and posts and ads and markets. Reminded me how terrible the search experience was back in Alta Vista and Yahoo days

DarkSpectrum ,

There are billions of people on earth who don’t have access to a computer.

THX1138 ,
@THX1138@lemmy.ml avatar

Firefox.

This is the way.

TheHotze ,

This is the way.

occhionaut ,

This is the way.

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