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

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

It doesn't have competition in terms of a "private browser". As far as I can see there is only Brave, and Ungoogled Chromium which is soon to be an unviable option because of the switch to Manifest V3 for Chromium.

There are of course browsers like Mullvad Browser, GNU Icecat and Librewolf etc. but they are all based on Firefox, so I wouldn't really count them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

That's certainly what I mean, but I can't speak for anyone else. I used Opera for years until they switched to being a Chromium-based browser, and Safari isn't an option on Windows or Linux, so I use Firefox. It's really not any more complicated than that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We will watch Ladybug with great interest

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

True, I forgot that is happening. Hopefully it makes a big splash. It'll be interesting to see how they handle add-ons. I doubt that a modern browser can succeed without it. From my understanding, there may not be any interoperability with existing browser extensions.