Thank goodness there is more than one browser available.
Glad I have firefox as well but also looking forward to a cool new project called Ladybird. https://ladybird.org
Not sure if its the right one but glad there are more projects out there trying to jump into the game. (I know extensions are a long way off for it but i see it as hope.)
Also please consider running pihole or adguard home. Or any other full home DNS add blocker. It will help.
Ladybird looks great! Very much looking forward to an alpha linux release so I can use it and give all kind of feedback.
if it’s* the right one
Looks like what I’d want to use, but to reach broad support it needs a Windows client as well.
Could a grease monkey script do something similar? I’m probably just talking out of my butt, but it seems like GM can sometimes do things easier or better (or just at all) that extensions can’t or won’t do.
If GM can do it then uBlock can do it. The problem is restriction of APIs
Laughs in Librewolf
I’m using Firefox or forks.
With the direction FF is taking it’s gonna be forks for now.
The only thing that held me back from using LibreWolf over Firefox was that it disabled (automatic) dark mode on websites. I understand this is part of the “resist fingerprinting” configuration. There’s a workaround now ( https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1732114).
In about:config update these 3 preferences:
- privacy.resistFingerprinting = false
- privacy.fingerprintingProtection = true
- privacy.fingerprintingProtection.overrides = +AllTargets,-CSSPrefersColorScheme
Dark Reader
Lol like anyone smart still used Google.
IT guys will stop using it…
Which means they’ll stop deploying it as the default browser on some large enterprises, it won’t ship as defaults in pre-baked images going forward.
Average joes and janes will use Safari and Edge depending on OS.
Where is their growth going to come from after this change? Chromebooks? lol.
I hope they do it, it will hurt them in the long run.
You can bet 300 new uBlock replacements to spring up practically overnight, some of them scams, reducing trust in the Google ecostystem.
“IT guys”? Chrome has a 66% market share globally.
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 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.
Google bankrolls Firefox basically.
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.
There it is. Firefox and Librewolf will guide us out of this mess.
Google Chrome warns of a drop of users. There, I corrected the title.
Yuge! > here, you forgot this.
I guess it’s a good thing I’m on Firefox now instead of Chrome.
Cool, just let me know. My girlfriend uses chrome. I’m happy to set her up with Firefox whenever y’all want to jump the shark.
Google needs to be ended.
When people say things like this, I wonder if they understand how impossible it is. Google is not just a company. It is a 2 trillion dollar entity. Even if Google search entirely fails, it will still persist. At this point, you may as well say, “The wind needs to be ended.” You don’t end the wind. The wind already won. It will outlive you, me, and our children.
What we can do is protect against it. We can deal with it. We can contain it. We can redirect it and repurpose it to be helpful. But ending it? That doesn’t happen.
IBM fell. Ford fell. Facebook (the social media site, not the company) fell. Yahoo fell.
Sure, they haven’t stopped existing, but their relevance is nowhere near their peak. There’s no such thing as “too big to fall”.
When people say things like this, I wonder if they understand how impossible it is. The King isn’t just a powerful man. He is a divine being.
I mean money is just as made up as the divine right of kings, and it will end one day.
Most people here have a device in their pocket with either Google hardware or Google software. If even the nerds with a passion against ads can’t not buy something from the biggest ad company, who can?
That’s a funny way to say “you should uninstall chrome rather than leaving it unused” but I hear you Google. 🫡
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.
