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Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads (www.windowscentral.com)
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I switched from Chrome to Firefox in 2019 because that's when Google adopted Manifest V3 and I never looked back. There were already articles then describing how it'd break ad blockers, and Firefox had at the time just recently released their "Quantum" overhaul which drastically improved responsiveness.

I'm a bit surprised it took five years for Google to drop support for Manifest V2, but the threat has long been there.

[–] uranibaba 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I remember the Quantum release. They remade how the browser handled tabs, and with the new release you could handle (almost) unlimited number of tabs. I tried this buy opening as many tabs as I could, it worked flawlessly. I can't even remember how it was before that, except that it was RAM intensive.

[–] Modern_medicine_isnt 3 points 3 months ago

I use Firefox as my main on my home pc. I keep running into things that don't work on Firefox. Not by saying they don't, just by throwing errors that make it sound like I put the wrong data in a field. Is there some magic extension to fix that?