Fortunately, this is easily avoided by not using Chrome.
this post was submitted on 17 Nov 2023
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Common Firefox W
It would be best to make the switch today. That has the dual benefit of a) Showing Google that they will lose users, and maybe they will change their mind (again), and b) Show every website that they do need to put actual effort into supporting and testing against Firefox.
Best? Better than not using chrome in the first place?
Good. Firefox is the answer.
For me, the future is Firefox and Linux.
Yeah but putting all our hopes into Firefox is quite dangerous. All Google needs to do to fuck us over is to stop funding Firefox.
Stop. Using. Chrome. FFS.
No do it for your own sake. Or simply your sanity.
But Firefox is way slower than chrome...
🎶No they won't because I don't use chrome 🎶
In other words, these older extentions work just fine, no one wants the new limited features, and google is force disabling older extentions despite any outcries from its users because it can.
The popular uBlock Origin extension, for example, would be limited under Manifest V3. The developer created uBlock Origin Lite, a reduced version that is compatible with Manifest V3.
uBO Lite have a lot of limitations:
- Filter lists update only when the extension updates (no fetching up to date lists from servers)
- Many filters are dropped at conversion time due to MV3's limited filter syntax
- No crafting your own filters (thus no element picker)
- No strict-blocked pages
- No per-site switches
- No dynamic filtering
- No importing external lists
Sounds like manifest 3 would also break extensions like Stylish, Greasemonkey and Dark Reader, basically anything that injects or interacts with the html, css or JavaScript of a page in any way.
Basically, most actually useful extensions
Hilarious. Please people, just stop using Chrome seriously. There's no reason to do it.
Well, googie has certainly given me ample reason to never use Chrome again... Not that I ever planned to anyway, but still...
Running winget install firefox should fix that problem for windows users
EDIT: Fuck off autocorrect
"winget"
My what extensions? Isn't that the keylogger and network compute software with perfunctory ad delivery features?
How will vivaldi and ungoogled-chromium be affected by these changes
I made the switch to waterfox (Firefox fork) that strips out much of the problematic mozilla stuff.
I started to switch because of the tab containers, as I work across a dozen or so accounts in our MSP business.
Now I realised how good Firefox can be if you get rid of the bloat.
I've never once used Firefox and thought "man, is there bloat here". Whatwas bugging you?
I was mainly referring to how sluggish it was. For my web apps, it was always slower and the UI would bog down. Maybe not the correct definition of you refer to unnecessary features.
I am more referring to how lean or streamline the software is. Both in front end design and backend.
A lot of browser performance has to do with how you use it, so my experience is not universal.
Still, even full fat Firefox is skinny compared to the morbidly obese Chrome and edge browsers.
So weird to me how when Chrome first came out, it was the opposite: Firefox was getting sluggish and poorly optimized with too much going on, and Chrome was sleek and fast and seemed to just have what was needed to work.
These things go in cycles. But I think the writing is on the wall. Google will never make the investment to unbloat Chrome.
They have no incentive to, at least not as long as they're the dominant web browser
There isn't much, Waterfox removes Pocket and disables most of the telemetry, tweaks some of the settings to be more privacy and performance minded, swaps google from default search engine and iirc it has more aggressive compiler optimization settings in exchange for having slightly more modern hardware requirements. And the default theme is more compact and less chrome-esque.
It originally was just about providing 64-bit builds of Firefox back when Mozilla didn't yet, today it's mostly "Firefox, but slightly better."
Around the time Chrome first hit the scene, Firefox was getting pretty bloated and inefficient... They've come a long way since then but they still do a bunch of unnecessary stuff that should probably be off by default but isn't
Like what should be off by default
will it affect Linux Chrome too?? Oh no!!
Yes
ok thank you!! I will update my extensions then.