We’ve been anticipating it for years,1 and it’s finally happening. Google is finally killing uBlock Origin – with a note on their web store stating that the …

  • cum@lemmy.cafe
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    1 month ago

    What you’re talking about is webcompat and is a very complicated issue. Also I’ve talked to some Mozilla devs who gave me multiple examples of Chromium rendering something wrong, and they’d have to intentionally break Firefox to render it incorrectly too, just so the end user would get a more consistent experience. Of course these issues happen more and more when things are only tested for one browser.

    • ElectricMachman@lemmy.sdf.org
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      1 month ago

      Maybe there could be some sort of compatibility flag in Firefox which detects non-standard pages designed for Chrome. We could call it… hmm… something like Quirks Mode?

    • Yi K@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      1 month ago

      This is Chromium monopoly. At this time instead of W3C standards, Chromium itself becomes the standard.