Welcome to Firefox
The transition was a little weird for the first week, now I just use Chrome when I have to login with Google for some stupid shit. Otherwise it sits in my app drawer, because I’m definitely never logging in to a Google service while using Firefox.
YouTube is better, browsing is better, ad block works, it’s just overall a superior browser.
Use the multi container extension for Firefox and have all your Google stuff in one container, banks in another, social media in another etc.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/
Why not log into a Google service while using Firefox?
Basically just don’t want to give them the ability to track my every click.
Thankfully Mozilla Firefox will be supporting Manifest v2 for the foreseeable future.
I guess extension developers will slowly stop, unless extremely hampered.
Will there be many extensions with active development that still use V2? Either they focus on Firefox or they have two versions.
At that point, why not make ublock part of Firefox, like brave did?
It’s not that crazy to use both.
It’s more work and will create different set of features.
So no, not crazy, but really inconvenient and for a very limited amount of users
I think Firefox will support both v2 and v3 extensions, so devs can use whichever makes more sense for their project. It has been a while since I looked into it though.
For the time being, yes, they will support both. But V2 will only work on Firefox (and forks) and I think brave, a very small percentage of users.
So given that it will be like supporting two different extensions, I assume most extension developers will just switch to v3.
How long after most extensions are v3 until Firefox drops/stops supporting is anybodies guess.
It’s actually a great example of how chromes dominant position is screwing other browsers
time to treat that firefox allergy of yall if ya want to keep adblocking.
Switched the other day. It’s just as good
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I use Firefox as my daily browser, but I tried the manifest v3 based uBlock experiment in Chrome and honestly I couldn’t tell the difference between it and the regular uBlock.
I welcome people switching over, but I don’t think this is anywhere near the killing blow to adblocking people think it is.
For now
it is. it wont be updated as often, and ads will slip in between them. it also won’t be able to block as many trackers because the api is more limited.
Who uses chrome by choice?
A lot of people use it because it’s been the default for so long, but I’m slowly getting friends and family to swap.
OK, so ambivalence. I’m lazy, I can get behind that. Also, I appreciate the work you’re doing. I gave up years ago and am still labeled by my family as “the one who cares too much about things that don’t matter.”
I usually tie it into a discussion about password managers and show them Bitwarden too. Like with my in-laws I did a dark web scan and showed them their own passwords were basically public knowledge. Could they use it with Chrome? Sure. But they want to know they’re secure and they trust me, so I get them on Firefox with a password manager.
I’m slowly converting my dad on it but the rest of my family likely sees me the same way, lol.
I use it and I like it. Also have a Chromebook which I love for the Android integration and ability to stream apps from my phone. Thus, I’d appreciate a more in-depth discussion here what this means for me, but all you see on Lemmy is circle jerk and hate. 🤦♀️
Have you tried earnestly starting the discussion, or are you expecting others to start the conversation on your behalf? 🙃
I was actually just answering the person’s question and continued with a bit of rambling.
Anyone who uses anything Google makes is a fool.
But Google search has gotten so much more interesting these days. Glue in pizza, spaghetti in gasoline sauce, jumping off bridges when feeling depressed.
To be honest, jumping off a bridge stops feeling depression… And so the other feelings.
But for real, I hope nobody did anything irreversible due to this stun.
