Yeah, if you didn't see that writing on the wall you need your eyes testing.
No Chrome browser will be maintained to keep using Manifest V2.
Use Firefox.
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Mozilla sucks as well
We’re truly doomed
It's slowly turning, too. Start looking for something else.
We need a truly FOSS browser that developed and maintained by the community. Librewolf isn't it unless it fully forks away from Mozilla. We need a new engine and we just don't have one yet.
Why a new engine, Firefox is open source?!
Fork Firefox.
But good luck funding a team to keep up with commercial companies’ pace. It needs funding.
If Mozilla made a way to donate in a way that I KNEW it would go towards the maintenance of the browser, and not another crappy thing they’re trying to be profitable, I’d donate in a second. I spend about £30/month on OSS donations and I’d happily add £5/month to Mozilla if I trusted them not to misspend it.
But good luck funding a team to keep up with commercial companies’ pace.
You answered the question yourself. The worry is that without a hard fork that is fully maintained we'll continue to have a dependence on Mozilla. It doesn't need to be a new engine, but it does need to be an independent one.
Ladybird Browser is coming, but could be a couple years still
From scratch, BSD licensed, non-profit managed
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What's Edge?
The browser you use to download Firefox
The browser you use to download Firefox
Huh? Just type winget install Mozilla.Firefox into PowerShell / cmd.
The thing you use once to download firefox, and then never again.
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Microsoft is a spineless removed.
Removed? What could the comment possibly say in this context that would warrant removal?
God, .ml manages to be the worst parts of both shitlib civility bullshit and tankie bullshit.
Why is it that when I see removed, it's always from lemmy.ml, is that the only instance with the filter enabled
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Nooo, it is browser on my workplace! How should I work efficiently without uBlock!?!?
The new manifest v3 version is actually not that bad, though not nearly as good as normal ublock.
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Tell IT and your boss how your productivity tanked since edge disabled uBlock.
Click on all the ads and install all the malware. That will teach them.
This might actually reverse firefox's decline in userbase at least in the business world. Any shop that already has multi-OS management could probably insta-switch to firefox, and i'm sure that MS locked-in places could too given enough of a push by IT.
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So, unironically, I do plan to request Firefox with uBlock Origin as a reasonable accomodation for my ADHD if I'm not able to use it at a job in the future. Banner ads are genuinely distracting and I have a real disability that makes them worse for me.
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Right, you don't need extensions, because you don't need customization, because what you need is what we the corp say you need.
I think Web as it exists is a failed branch of evolution.
A networked (solved) hypertext (solved) document (solved) system - yes. A networked hypertext system with one or two unbelievably complex clients, where only enormous corps have enough resources to change something, - no. One can add steps - E2E encryption, dynamic services, scripts, all not requiring a monolithic piece of nonsense.
BTW, those hating Flash, I hope, do realize that its proper, paradigm-abiding replacement would be a FOSS plugin with similar goal, not what we have.
For flash I think you're describing Ruffle
No, Ruffle is an alternative interpreter. I mean an alternative, FOSS, technology.
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people use edge? it downloads itself onto your computer without permission.
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Who fucking uses edge?
90% of people and corporations are either using Edge or Chrome and since there's essentially no difference between the two they are equally bad. We're back to a browser mono-culture, just like in the bad old days of Internet Explorer.
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Just in case you needed another reason not to use Edge.
Chrome* or Chromium based browsers*
Librewolf on desktop Mull on Android
Mull is not maintained anymore. However there is a fork called IronFox.
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Fancy firefox-based browser along the lines of Arc?
Worth a look if you're a web power-user / developer sort of person
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