I’m using Firefox or forks.
If you use anything Google, you are the product. This has been pretty obvious since the early 2000’s, yet people dive right into all the crap they release.
Chrome who?
Google sneezes and your future is stolen by an ad that’s selling it back to you. Google is too big to exist.
I cannot really be happy about being on Librewolf, because I am very afraid Firefox might eventually ditch MV2 as well. Mozilla is dependent on Google and is known for questionable choices, so…
Firefox supports MV3, with some tweaks such as the WebRequest limitations added by Google’s MV3 being removed from the Firefox implementation. I don’t think they will remove it
Google forcing Firefox to do such a move sounds very anti-competitive. I don’t know if that would ever happen.
How do they force them? Just curious so asking
Google bankrolls Firefox basically.
Google pays Firefox hundreds of millions of dollars a year to be their default search engine. In 2021, this accounted for 83% of Mozilla’s revenue.
Would there likely be a fork at that point for those that wish to continue?
This would be the same problem as in Chromium - you theoretically can, but in practice maintaining it with zero support from the original company would get increasingly hard.
…Oh, no! Anyway. Just giving people one more reason to finally make the switch to Firefox or something different.
Google Chrome warns about disabling uBlock Origin. I warn Google Chrome that they’re being a little bitch & they’re going to lose users.
Now what would be impressive is if they ban uBlock origin from working on firefox mobile. That would be a whole new kind of sinister
Firefox ftw.
I’ve actually been using Waterfox lately though because for some reason there’s a video codec issue on Firefox that makes YouTube videos not play correctly.
Gee, what a shame. Good think I switched to FireFox. Hey, does anyone know how to make chat work on FireFox?
chat?
Some of us never left Firefox.
Is “chat work” something like sex work but clothed?
80% of the websites saying we only support Chromium can be used without any problem by chaning Useragent header
About that you can check this new extension : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/chrome-mask/
Yet I feel it’s better to avoid using it and report web compatibility problems. Always masking user agent could led to believe only supporting chrome is sufficient.
it’s better to avoid using it and report web compatibility problems
It would be if sites were truly incompatible, but developers know Chrome/Chromium dominates the market and instead of bothering checking compatibility with firefox, they just preemptively block Firefox since that’s an easier “fix”.
That’s assuming the vendor isn’t Google and doesn’t have a vested interest in Chrome hegemony.
Still. Finding a site that doesn’t work and reporting it absolutely is the way to go.
Sadly I’m far more attached to ad blocking than I am to a browser.
Laughs in Librewolf
laughs in firefox
Thank you Google I hope shitty moves like this drives enough people away to better browsers like Firefox. It desperately needs a bigger market share.
Their new UI made the browser unusable anyway. Looks like a child toy to me.
I don’t really love Firefox’s default UI but I can customize it with about:config and userChrome.css to fit my taste.
Thanks for reaffirming why I refuse to use Chrome.
