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Firefox has a lot of issues, but maybe we don't have any other option. (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

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Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled

Google Chrome is now encouraging uBlock Origin users who have updated to the latest version to switch to other ad blockers before Manifest v2 extensions are disabled.

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[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I think people come down a lot harder on Firefox than they should. It's a great browser, and they do a lot for the freedom of the community and as an open source ambassador.

I feel like people generally feel that, given their prominence, they could do a lot more. This is certainly true. Their weird corporate structure, their half-baked experiments like Pocket or VPN, their Google ad money, these are all valid issues.

But do you know what else is supported by Google ad money? Chromium and every browser built on it. Do you know what has a far more corporate culture? Chrome, Edge, Safari, etc. Do you know who else had weird little money making experiments? Every other browser (Brave's Basic Attention Tokens, DDG's Privacy Pro, etc.).

Firefox makes a bigger target because of their relative popularity and long history.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I want there to be a competitive market so that Firefox gets better. Without good competition it will continue to rot.

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don't understand the premise of this statement. Do you think Firefox doesn't have competition in the browser space?

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It only has Chromium which somehow is worse than Firefox. We need something that supports all the same features as Firefox but isn't a fork

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Are you talking about the rendering engine? Safari still uses WebKit. Everything else was killed off by chrome. No one wanted to make addons for Internet Explorer, so they switched to Chromium as well.

It would be extremely difficult to put something new into the market at this point. If even Microsoft lacked the resources, it's hard to imagine anyone succeeding IMO.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 0 points 3 months ago

We will watch Ladybug with great interest

[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Honestly it's more that Lemmy as a whole is just a big group of curmudgeons. Most discussions on here veer strongly negative, not limited to Firefox.

[–] laughterlaughter@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

That was after the reddit migration. Lemmy was much better before the reddit doom-and-gloom gang made themselves home.