While I'm less than enthusiastic about Mozilla's recent entrance into the ad-tech industry, it's worth noting that uBlock Origin is not just still available on Firefox and by far its most popular browser extension, but it's also officially recommended. [1]<p>IMO uBlock Origin has become an integral part of the Firefox experience. Chrome killed uBlock Origin? Firefox <i>can't</i> kill uBlock Origin. It can only kill Firefox.<p>[1] <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?sort=users" rel="nofollow">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?sort=users</a>
It's super ironic that Google pushes this while literally under investigation in multiple jurisdictions about being a monopoly and abusing it's power.<p>It seems like the leadership team literally either can't help themselves by maybe just not screwing over their users, or they reckon they're too big to really suffer any consequences.<p>Maybe they're just content with the outcome either way, potential golden handshakes and all?
I have heard that the real underlying problem concerned resource usage (ten thousand regexp matches etc). But only now do I wonder why the browser's reaction is to remove an API instead of to limit the amount of CPU extensions can use.
I use Firefox so I'm fine.<p>But what should I do with the not so tech savvy family members and friends that use Chrome and I installed Ublock origin? Install the lite version? Other alternative?<p>I'm sorry to say that will be impossible to make them switch to Firefox.
Isn't Chromium open source? How hard would it be to fork and restore Manifest V2? I'd expect the functionality to be fairly isolated so that easily tracking upstream becomes manageable.
Does anybody know if/how this will affect Chromium-based Iridium browser ?<p><a href="https://iridiumbrowser.de/" rel="nofollow">https://iridiumbrowser.de/</a>
So the ideal browser is a concept that is every day more and more elusive.<p>For my private use, I am using an older Mac with some memory consumption issues, so until I upgrade, I am using safari because it's the most lightweight, and while the extension support is the smallest of all, at least for very major things you are still covered.<p>For work, the Mac I am using is way more powerful, and yet I find strange issues. Vivaldi dies if I open more than 60-70 tabs at once but it doesn't even really matter, because all the Chromium based browsers that have said "don't worry, we will keep maintaining Manifest V2" feel like they are on a "danger zone" to me.<p>And then, I try to use Firefox and while the extension support is the most complete, many times I am finding unresponsive pages (usually tools like Google Meet, which I need to use because of work) or even worse: profile files get messed up and I start getting an error "There was an error, that's all we know" every time I try to log into any service using Google SSO.<p>So to summarize, at this rate I will have to migrate to Qutebrowser... or Lynx.