Google Chrome disables uBlock Origin for some in Manifest v3 rollout
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Fennec right now, switched before Ironfox was out and now switching would be painful as there is no export, so all manual...
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thanks. I keep Firefox updated. the fact that changing the user agent gets the delay is pretty damning evidence
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No horizontal tab grouping. Tab groups on Chrome are perfect, and the Firefox tab extensions all suck in comparison.
That said, I'm still using Firefox today because the internet is unusable without a good ad blocker.
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I know lastpass does but they lost my trust after the breach.
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Yeah. Zen is a bit newer and I’d say not quite as slick an experience yet, but it has come a long way in the last couple months and is getting very good
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30+ years!
.....fuck off, '94 wasn't 30.... counts on fingers several times
.....Shit.....
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Ahhh TIL
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Meanwhile ublock origin works fine in Fennec/Firefox Android.
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I use Palemoon for the nostalgia but also because of the best theme around, Moonscape
Netscape will forever be my number one.
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Would you happen to know whether this is something that a UserAgent spoofer would suffice to get around?
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Tab groups and vertical tabs are at least on Nightly now; you can enable them in settings.
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nottheopbutok
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Main reason I don't is cuz:
Avoid Gecko-based browsers like Firefox as they're currently much more vulnerable to exploitation and inherently add a huge amount of attack surface. Gecko doesn't have a WebView implementation (GeckoView is not a WebView implementation), so it has to be used alongside the Chromium-based WebView rather than instead of Chromium, which means having the remote attack surface of two separate browser engines instead of only one. Firefox / Gecko also bypass or cripple a fair bit of the upstream and GrapheneOS hardening work for apps. Worst of all, Firefox does not have internal sandboxing on Android. This is despite the fact that Chromium semantic sandbox layer on Android is implemented via the OS isolatedProcess feature, which is a very easy to use boolean property for app service processes to provide strong isolation with only the ability to communicate with the app running them via the standard service API. Even in the desktop version, Firefox's sandbox is still substantially weaker (especially on Linux) and lacks full support for isolating sites from each other rather than only containing content as a whole. The sandbox has been gradually improving on the desktop but it isn't happening for their Android browser yet.
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Security and sandboxing are important, weak points on the android implementation.
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At one particular point it was, if I recall correctly, though Chrome also (mis)implements some standards its own way, so Google might also use that as a form of attack against anyone who implements them properly, much like Microsoft did in the bad old IE6 days...
It's all a silly arms race, though, with Google coming up with new ways to enshittify the web for anyone not using Chrome or using ad blockers and Mozilla and ad blocker (and alternative YouTube frontend) developers trying to figure out what they broke this time and how to fix it, so what worked yesterday might not work today and work again tomorrow.
It's all a profoundly stupid waste of everyone's time and resources (all for a few more ad views) which will hopefully end up with Google losing their monopoly position on the web like the Internet Explorer bullshit did for Microsoft, but will keep being a major hassle for everyone until it does.
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This only applies to android, not desktop use, and you couldn’t use uBlock on mobile chrome anyway so it is simply not relevant.
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What is everyone's thoughts on duckduckgo browser? I'm on grapheme os and have always used Firefox on my desktop
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I know... Jurassic Park is 33 years this year. It would be like watching a movie from the 60' when it was released.
We're old, friend.
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I use Firefox as my main browser on Android, and all apps that invoke a WebView do so using Firefox's rendering engine, with uBlock Origin and Dark Reader working seamlessly. So, maybe this info about Firefox for Android lacking WebView support is outdated?
Exemple after clicking a link on Twitter/X:
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Man I haven’t been around that long but I feel like some of my knowledge is outdated and I have to start with “a long time ago in a galaxy far far away” because I stopped paying attention
