The new MV3 architecture reflects Google’s avowed desire to make browser extensions more performant, private, and secure. But the internet giant’s attempt to do so has been bitterly contested by makers of privacy-protecting and content-blocking extensions, who have argued that the Chocolate Factory’s new software architecture will lead to less effective privacy and content-filtering extensions.
For users of uBlock Origin, which runs on Manifest V2, “options” means using the less capable uBlock Origin Lite, which supports Manifest V3.
Anyone that’s used Librewolf mind offering their opinion on it? That description sounds pretty sweet.
I quite enjoy using it. Stays out of the way, boots instantly, is very plain looking.
It’s a bit too restrictive by default imo, good for privacy but you will need to change quite a few setting if you want to browse normally.
Despite my opinion it’s the browser I use most on my laptop.
It’s the best. Deletes all cookies and browsing data on exit by default. I changed it to keep history and cookies for a handful of sites
I additionally use JShelter to get rid of most clientside fingerprinting
What’s jshtler is this like noscrypt?
Not really, NoScript prevents executing all JavaScript by default. JShelter instead strongly limits what JS can do and spoofs some values to throw of fingerprinters. It also has a network boundary shield (mostly blocking cross sites post/get requests. Same for lan to prevent your local network being scanned etc). And it comes with a fingerprint detector which allows you to see which websites want to track you the most (I avoid those whenever possible)
This would make for an extremely annoying browsing experience.
True
That’s why I changed it to keep all history and cookies on pages I whitelisted
It’s great. It’s essentially Firefox, but without the unnecessary bullshit like Sponsored sites or Pocket integration, and it has some quite significant privacy and security improvements. Also comes with uBlock Origin pre-installed.
In my experience, the Flatpak variant of Firefox on Linux is the swiftest among Firefox-based browsers.