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Chrome Canary just killed uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2 extensions (119 points, 4 months ago, 62 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41757178
About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported" (182 points, 6 months ago, 45 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41140185
In June 2024, ad blockers such as uBlock Origin will be disabled in Chrome 127 (143 points, 1 year ago, 52 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38361758
No one at Mozilla will ever have the conviction and power to fix this design misstep. I had a bunch of other reasons typed up but finding out that this will be wrong forever is actually enough for me.
I hate ads more than anyone and I'll switch if I'm forced to but Firefox is just a bad knock off of a browser forever playing catch up with the real thing. But I'm glad someone's doing it.
I mean I use Firefox, but any time I have to open Chrome for whatever reason, it just feels like the UI is responding a handful of milliseconds faster than Firefox, even on very powerful hardware.
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I do have developer mode already toggled on which might make a difference?
Later, the change will be forced on all users.
For example, the Windows 11 hardware requirements were extreme enough that some of the then current computers sold by Microsoft didn't meet the spec, but there was a temporary option to bypass those requirements.
> Microsoft makes its stringent TPM 2.0 Windows 11 upgrade requirement "non-negotiable" — potentially leading to the single biggest jump in junked and unsupported Windows 10 PCs
https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/micr...
Google is following the same playbook here. At first there is a workaround. Lster,it us removed.
Also, this should have (2024) in the title
I've been entirely fine all that time.
Back in the IE6 vs. FF days... IE was inferior in every way. IE was crashy, had no tabs, pathetic/hostile developer tools, insecure, poor support for open web standards, etc.
But today?
The difference is that Chrome is really good, with great developer tools. It's a great user experience.
FF only really wins in terms of better extension API (allowing things like uBlock Origin) and the "moral superiority" of not being created by an advertising company, and serving as a bulwark against a browser engine monoculture. And among real privacy diehards, they're probably using something like PiHole which makes uBO perhaps superfluous for them.
But it doesn't out that even developers who should know better apparently DGAF about those things.
Chrome is fine.
Firefox is kind of mixed. I use it sometimes. One of the things everyone recommended was tree style tabs so I got those and was kind of amazed that to make them look ok you are supposed to get some custom css in your editor and send it to some obscure folder deep in the file system. And now the appearance has changed because some update worked differently with the hacked together css? That seems kind of clunky. Though maybe I'm doing it wrong.
The containers thing is cool.
Is that a factor, or...?
I am a bit wary about their dominant position in advertising, though people still google stuff and see google ads if they use other browsers.
Their browser share has dropped from a peak around 90% to more like 67% I think.
That still gives Google de facto control of the web, or at the very least control of web standards.
Those companies building atop Chromium can maintain their own forks of the core rendering engine, but that is a very heavy burden indeed, and Google can always decide to move off of Chromium onto their own private fork and leave everybody else on their own.