Firefox says it will keep supporting uBlock Origin even as Microsoft Edge and other Chromium browsers phase it out under Manifest V3.

Firefox says it will keep supporting uBlock Origin even as Microsoft Edge and other Chromium browsers phase it out under Manifest V3.

  • forkDestroyer@infosec.pubEnglish
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    1 hour ago

    Vivaldi phases it out? I haven’t been off mobile in a while so I didn’t know that was planned. Waterfox still does ok.

  • Ripley_Tripley@lemmus.orgEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    For everyone using Firefox, are you using it with microG or some type of sandbox? Even when going private, you can’t download it unless you have Google Play services on mobile. Ive tried to see if it works without google and unfortunately it dosent. If that’s the case for mobile, then technically we really shouldn’t be using it either.

  • Mio@feddit.nuEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    We should introduce Manifest V4 that would undo all damage V3 did.

  • djsiete@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    Helium and other Chromium derivatives still support it, so this title isn’t entirely accurate.

    Sadly vanilla FF has embraced AI slop and set Google as their default search engine, show ads until you disable the function etc. So i guess the moral of the story is to not use default browsers.

    • Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      4 hours ago

      I switched back to Firefox vanilla after years of Chrome. Can you, or other power users, suggest alternate versions of FF/ other plugins more advanced or useful than Ublock? I haven’t had the time/energy to dig for it and would appreciate an upgrade path to get me up to date with privacy and more advanced ad blocking.

      Thanks!

      • djsiete@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        3 hours ago

        If you’re looking for a FF derivative then LibreWolf as folk below suggested. Otherwise I’d highly recommend Helium – chromium based so compatibility is better, and it’s just a batteries included ungoogled chromium, meaning it’s completely (?) degoogled.

      • Fiery@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        4 hours ago

        QoL extensions I use on top of uBlock:

        • Consent-O-Matic (auto denies those annoying “our 500 partners would like your data” popupd)
        • FastForward (skips link shorteners)
        • DeArrow (honest yt titles and thumbnails)
        • SponsorBlock (skips sponsors in yt)
        • Tamper-/Greasemonkey (various userscripts)
        • Password manager of choice extension (Bitwarden for me)
        • Dark Reader (dark mode sites without dark mode)
  • im_fine_sandy@nord.pubEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    Sorry to be a debbie downer but I have grave concerns about the long term viability of firefox.

    Sites obviously don’t test against ff anymore with more and more bugs appearing in more and more sites.

    I have to daily drive both ungoogled-chromium and librewolf and sadly, the number of things I need to do in chromium is increasing week by week.

    • brotato@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      5 hours ago

      Interesting, I use FF as a daily driver (with uBlock, Privacy Badger, HTTPS Everywhere) and I don’t experience common issues. I’m curious where you’re seeing problems? Maybe there’s something in your extension toolchain causing it?

  • TWeaK@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    6 hours ago

    Alternate headline: Firefox is now the only browser worth using.

    And in any case, lumping Firefox as one browser is disingenuous. There are numerous Firefox forks, just like every other major browser is in fact a Google Chromium fork.