Now what would be impressive is if they ban uBlock origin from working on firefox mobile. That would be a whole new kind of sinister
I only use chrome for things that require my Google account.
use google container for firefox :)
Gee, what a shame. Good think I switched to FireFox. Hey, does anyone know how to make chat work on FireFox?
Is “chat work” something like sex work but clothed?
chat?
Some of us never left Firefox.
80% of the websites saying we only support Chromium can be used without any problem by chaning Useragent header
About that you can check this new extension : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/chrome-mask/
Yet I feel it’s better to avoid using it and report web compatibility problems. Always masking user agent could led to believe only supporting chrome is sufficient.
it’s better to avoid using it and report web compatibility problems
It would be if sites were truly incompatible, but developers know Chrome/Chromium dominates the market and instead of bothering checking compatibility with firefox, they just preemptively block Firefox since that’s an easier “fix”.
That’s assuming the vendor isn’t Google and doesn’t have a vested interest in Chrome hegemony.
Still. Finding a site that doesn’t work and reporting it absolutely is the way to go.
I use chromium for one thing, and it’s casting live sports to my Chromecast. My plans to implement a HTPC have just been expedited.
…Oh, no! Anyway. Just giving people one more reason to finally make the switch to Firefox or something different.
Google Chrome warns about disabling uBlock Origin. I warn Google Chrome that they’re being a little bitch & they’re going to lose users.
They started putting ads in Windows, a few users switched, but most still continue Windows.
Google will roll this out and a few users will switch, but most will just keep using Chrome.
We’ve already established that most users don’t seem to care.
Adblockers are the largest consumer boycott in history.
Google isn’t just disabling an extension, they’re attacking a boycott comprised of 200,000,000+ people, all around the globe, standing up to forced manipulation of our beliefs and habits by profit-hungry corporations.
If you use anything Google, you are the product. This has been pretty obvious since the early 2000’s, yet people dive right into all the crap they release.
I cannot really be happy about being on Librewolf, because I am very afraid Firefox might eventually ditch MV2 as well. Mozilla is dependent on Google and is known for questionable choices, so…
Would there likely be a fork at that point for those that wish to continue?
This would be the same problem as in Chromium - you theoretically can, but in practice maintaining it with zero support from the original company would get increasingly hard.
Firefox supports MV3, with some tweaks such as the WebRequest limitations added by Google’s MV3 being removed from the Firefox implementation. I don’t think they will remove it
Google forcing Firefox to do such a move sounds very anti-competitive. I don’t know if that would ever happen.
How do they force them? Just curious so asking
Google bankrolls Firefox basically.
Google pays Firefox hundreds of millions of dollars a year to be their default search engine. In 2021, this accounted for 83% of Mozilla’s revenue.
“This destroys the Chrome”
“We used the Chrome to destroy the Chrome”
Google sneezes and your future is stolen by an ad that’s selling it back to you. Google is too big to exist.
Lol like anyone smart still used Google.
I’ll just side load it. Fuck you Google
I use Firefox but when I watch twitch or wherever, I need Google chrome’s live caption to see what streamers say.
Firefox please get this feature asap. So I can delete Google chrome for good.
No idea where you’d like to use live captions, but n maybe this helps:
meanwhile firefox lists it as recommended and also lets you use it on firefox mobile.
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I’ve got some bad news for you. Mozilla bought an ad company.
You can always fork firefox. People used to use website not requiring javascript at all and it worked well. Some people still use even w3m f.e. when graphics card driver goes bad after update and they need to watch some docs on the internet. Most current browser have most features you would ever need
Forking is indeed the way forward when Mozilla loses its way a little more. For myself, I switched to Librewolf about 6 months ago, along with replacing Thunderbird with Betterbird after using it since the Phoenix days.
I cannot remember what prompted the move to Librewolf, it may have been the AI stuff they were pushing at the time, or possibly the update that forced the tabs into my titlebar without having to go into about:config to fix it. Or the fact that Firefox was constantly pushing me to sign up for an account. There were quite a few gripes that added up over time lol
Betterbird restored some removed things I liked pre-supernova as well as a native systray icon under Linux and that was enough motivation to make the switch.
It is time for a new browser to enter the market. Either Ladybird or something built with Servo seems likely.
You can always fork firefox
You could fork Chromium too.
And my nerd bros try to get me to donate
i mean they bought a privacy preserving ad company to offer an alternative for companies to google, which is what they should be doing.
because like it or not people depend on ada for their sites.
Wait until people find out you can make the government ban ads - https://www.euronews.com/2014/11/26/grenoble-europe-s-first-ad-free-city/
I like their future (so far).
Ban billboards. Very different. And are there ones owned by the city.
Honestly, not a huge win.
Banning billboards is actually pretty huge. I live in Maine where billboards are banned and the mental break from being constantly forcibly advertised to is so nice. Every time I travel anywhere else I realize what a huge difference it makes.
It has made mobile browsing usable again for me.
Same. Firefox Mobile had been a laggy mess when I used it a few years ago, but a combination of some really aggressive advertising and the announcement of manifest v3 caused me to give it another shot about a year ago. It’s a dramatic improvement in phone browsing.
