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[-] Jaysyn@kbin.social 152 points 1 year ago

Fortunately, this is easily avoided by not using Chrome.

[-] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 65 points 1 year ago

Common Firefox W

[-] RooPappy@kbin.social 39 points 1 year ago

It would be best to make the switch today. That has the dual benefit of a) Showing Google that they will lose users, and maybe they will change their mind (again), and b) Show every website that they do need to put actual effort into supporting and testing against Firefox.

[-] ftbd@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

Best? Better than not using chrome in the first place?

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[-] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 86 points 1 year ago

Good. Firefox is the answer.

[-] Senex@reddthat.com 30 points 1 year ago

For me, the future is Firefox and Linux.

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[-] Tygr@lemmy.world 76 points 1 year ago

Recently made the switch from Edge to Firefox to fully ditch Chromium. The more I read, the more I realize it was a great decision.

[-] 0x2d@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

why were you using microsoft edge?

[-] Tygr@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I liked it. Found it better than Chrome for my needs to finally get away from Google. I hadn’t realized I went from Chrome to Chromium. Within a year, I am now switched to Firefox. After theming it and stuff, I’m now liking it way more than everything else. It does everything I need and looks beautiful.

I also enjoy Firefox Focus on iOS which is basically incognito on steroids. Any time I click a link, it defaults to FFF.

[-] iFarmGolems@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It's better than chrome. Smaller memory footprint and a bit faster. Source: I'm web dev.

[-] Piecemakers3Dprints@lemmy.world 75 points 1 year ago
[-] 257m@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago

No do it for your own sake. Or simply your sanity.

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[-] rob299@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago

In other words, these older extentions work just fine, no one wants the new limited features, and google is force disabling older extentions despite any outcries from its users because it can.

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago

🎶No they won't because I don't use chrome 🎶

[-] kambusha@feddit.ch 21 points 1 year ago

The popular uBlock Origin extension, for example, would be limited under Manifest V3. The developer created uBlock Origin Lite, a reduced version that is compatible with Manifest V3.

[-] Frellwit@lemmy.world 56 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

uBO Lite have a lot of limitations:

[-] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sounds like manifest 3 would also break extensions like Stylish, Greasemonkey and Dark Reader, basically anything that injects or interacts with the html, css or JavaScript of a page in any way.

[-] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 year ago

Basically, most actually useful extensions

[-] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 year ago

Hilarious. Please people, just stop using Chrome seriously. There's no reason to do it.

[-] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago

Well, googie has certainly given me ample reason to never use Chrome again... Not that I ever planned to anyway, but still...

[-] HurlingDurling@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Running winget install firefox should fix that problem for windows users

EDIT: Fuck off autocorrect

[-] slowroll@r.nf 5 points 1 year ago
[-] satans_crackpipe@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

My what extensions? Isn't that the keylogger and network compute software with perfunctory ad delivery features?

[-] 0x2d@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

How will vivaldi and ungoogled-chromium be affected by these changes

[-] SapphironZA@lemmings.world 4 points 1 year ago

I made the switch to waterfox (Firefox fork) that strips out much of the problematic mozilla stuff.

I started to switch because of the tab containers, as I work across a dozen or so accounts in our MSP business.

Now I realised how good Firefox can be if you get rid of the bloat.

[-] glimse@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

Firefox is great regardless of "the bloat"

[-] SapphironZA@lemmings.world 3 points 1 year ago

I would say it's good, but could be great with small adjustments in the way it is packaged.

[-] ripcord@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago

I've never once used Firefox and thought "man, is there bloat here". Whatwas bugging you?

[-] SapphironZA@lemmings.world 5 points 1 year ago

I was mainly referring to how sluggish it was. For my web apps, it was always slower and the UI would bog down. Maybe not the correct definition of you refer to unnecessary features.

I am more referring to how lean or streamline the software is. Both in front end design and backend.

A lot of browser performance has to do with how you use it, so my experience is not universal.

Still, even full fat Firefox is skinny compared to the morbidly obese Chrome and edge browsers.

[-] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

So weird to me how when Chrome first came out, it was the opposite: Firefox was getting sluggish and poorly optimized with too much going on, and Chrome was sleek and fast and seemed to just have what was needed to work.

[-] SapphironZA@lemmings.world 2 points 1 year ago

These things go in cycles. But I think the writing is on the wall. Google will never make the investment to unbloat Chrome.

[-] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

They have no incentive to, at least not as long as they're the dominant web browser

[-] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There isn't much, Waterfox removes Pocket and disables most of the telemetry, tweaks some of the settings to be more privacy and performance minded, swaps google from default search engine and iirc it has more aggressive compiler optimization settings in exchange for having slightly more modern hardware requirements. And the default theme is more compact and less chrome-esque.

It originally was just about providing 64-bit builds of Firefox back when Mozilla didn't yet, today it's mostly "Firefox, but slightly better."

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