• irish_link@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Glad I have firefox as well but also looking forward to a cool new project called Ladybird. https://ladybird.org

    Not sure if its the right one but glad there are more projects out there trying to jump into the game. (I know extensions are a long way off for it but i see it as hope.)

    Also please consider running pihole or adguard home. Or any other full home DNS add blocker. It will help.

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      2 months ago

      Ladybird looks great! Very much looking forward to an alpha linux release so I can use it and give all kind of feedback.

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      2 months ago

      Looks like what I’d want to use, but to reach broad support it needs a Windows client as well.

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    2 months ago

    Let this be my warning to Google that I will never go back to their browser when they do. Challas! ✌️

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    2 months ago

    I honestly can’t wait to see how this plays out. Only Chrome, chromium and edge in their pure forms have dedicated to doing this. Most of the Chrome forks have said they’re going to fork and keep it running. It’s certainly going to give Firefox a shot in the arm, but there’s no lack of other competition either.

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      2 months ago

      I don’t know how long the forks will be able to backport new features to their forked codebase.

      I think the only sensible solution is to just switch to Firefox.

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        2 months ago

        Eventually Firefox will switch to V3 anyway so it’s kind of just delaying the inevitable.

        It sucks that this is the future of the Internet.

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          2 months ago

          Manifest v3 is already supported in Firefox (they must support it to keep the extension ecosystem alive), but they implemented it without the user-hostile restrictions.

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            Oh, I wasn’t aware of that, I thought the user-hostile restrictions were inherent to Manifest v3 and they were unavoidable.

            Okay, maybe just maybe Firefox squeaks by unharmed then.

            edit: I literally just had someone else tell me just now that “It’s not something that can be worked around. It’s specifically a design feature of manifest v3 to restrict these types of things.”

            So which is it? I’m kind of getting mixed signals here.

            edit 2: Oh, it sounds like Google has additional arbitrary restrictions on content blocking functionality, beyond what Manifest V3 itself has.

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    2 months ago

    What I’m scared is publishers taking this as a reason to simply start banning Firefox and other browsers.

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      2 months ago

      There’s already plenty of business web apps that require chrome. I specifically use a business focused web app that not only requires Chrome, but ONLY CHROME ITSELF and no chromium derivatives. That’s the first time I’ve come across that. I had previously seen chrome requirements, but they worked just fine on ungoogled chromium. Not this one, nope. Regular Google Chrome and nothing else. wtf is that garbage.

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        2 months ago

        You can get past these with a user agent, lying about which browser it is. However, they aren’t testing for other browsers, so their site maybe as buggy as hell. As yet Firefox doesn’t do a WINE and match Chrome, bug for bug, so sites work as intended. Google have cause IE6’s return.

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      2 months ago

      An ecom site decides to block 5% of web traffic and potential sales?

      Now tell the marketing team you are turning away 1 in 20 potential customers because (well, not really sure why) and see what they have to say.

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      2 months ago

      The more people use Firefox, the more web devs will be forced to ensure their website works on Firefox.

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      2 months ago

      Have you reported issues for them? It’s in the menu somewhere. If Mozilla get a lot of reports for particular sites, they reach out to the webmaster and try to work with them to improve Firefox support - usually by removing proprietary Chrome-only features or by removing reliance on Chrome bugs that don’t exist in Firefox.

      You can also report the issue at https://webcompat.com/, just search to see if it’s already been reported first.

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      2 months ago

      I’m showing my age, but back when IE was basically the only browser and Firefox (Firebird back then) launched, people often lamented that things didn’t work in Firefox. The solution? People used Firefox and web developers were forced to make their shit work in Firefox. When Chrome came out, suddenly we had three real options and the way to make everything work? Open Standards.

      Now, Chrome is in the position IE was back before Firefox came around. How ever will we make sure things work in Firefox??? Use Firefox. If enough people dump Google’s malware browser, the web has to go back to supporting multiple browsers through open standards.

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    2 months ago

    I’m not worried about this at all. I don’t use Chrome anyways. I use Brave. It has a built-in ad blocker that works pretty well and I don’t see that going away.