Can’t wait till Kagi Browser releases their Linux version of a browser based on webkit, but it’s prob at least another year or more frmo being released and Gnome Web is so featureless it’s useless and can’t even play YouTube videos half the time in 2025…
Just fucking switch
Or like, just switch already?
Eh.
After years and years of Chrome I just up and switched on Friday when they finally pulled the plug.
No regrets. No waving from the stern of the ship as I sail away from Chromeland.
If they choose to take away a valuable tool I consider necessary for browsing the web, then I have no loyalty to them and can easily move on. Took all of 10 seconds to import my shit into Firefox and be on my way.
Bye, Chrome. Thanks for being useful, until you weren’t.
Ubo has a video in the reddit sub on how to do it.
I’m struggling with the concept of people putting effort into using uBlock Origin with Chrome.
I have to use Chrome to access a couple of sites that don’t play nice with Firefox.
I have to use Chrome to access a couple of sites that don’t play nice with Firefox.
I bet those sites will play nice if you switch your user-agent to display as chrome.
If they don’t play nice then fuck em
My new rent portal is one of these sites. Can’t just not pay rent because I don’t like chromium browsers.
Rent portal? You mean bank account with direct debit and/or electronic transfer. What is a rent portal? How can you possibly benefit from having a website just to act as a middle man to collect your personal info?
Doesnt always work like that.
Just use edge, it’s chrome based. Or any other chrome based browsers that aren’t google chrome?
I’m honestly looking for an answer for my specific use case and unfortunately no other browser seems to be able to do this (I last looked into this in earnest near the beginning of the year). I am a consultant and work on multiple customers systems (web based system) all of which use a common single sign in provider. Unfortunately this means that in a single browser session, I can only be logged into one customer at one time. Yes, I know I can use multiple browsers but I sometimes touch 10 different systems in a day and need to switch between them easily and quicly. Yes, I know I can do this in Firefox but Firefox doesn’t break each sandboxed session into it’s own container with its own customized icon in the taskbar within windows.
With chrome I can create as many local profiles as I want, one for each of my customers and each with their own unique icons. Each profile has its own add-ons, caches etc. and I can quickly switch back and forth between them visually from the taskbar.
I do not want to continue having to using Chrome so if someone has a solution that gives me chrome profiles without the google, I would love that so much.
Have you looked into Firefox Multi Account Containers? I use this extension to quickly switch between multiple tab groups, some of which do use SSO while using the same service (e.g. Outlook). Plus, you can easily create new tabs like Ctrl + Shift + (#1-9) to open a container of your choice among other shortcuts. I know it doesn’t meet all your criteria, but each tab group has its own colour and/or icon to make them distinct, while being in the same window
Firefox has a new profiles experience in v138 and up. Each can have its own extensions and settings. If you’ve got more than one you can switch in the taskbar. The only thing you might be missing is using multiple profiles at once?
I use Firefox on everything EXCEPT my Steam Deck. Firefox will not let you open the dropdown menu to exit, make videos fullscreen etc. And when a notification pops up, your firefox is now 100 by 30 pixels…
I wish they would fix it already…
I can use firefox in desktop mode but i don’t like having to switch to desktop mode and wait for everything. Then switch back to play something.
I hate that the source article title has a comma splice, and rules say we have to perpetuate that.
If you have to use a Chromium browser. Just use Brave. It haves a built in ad blocker.
You mean the browser that was caught injecting affiliate codes on cryptocurrency sites and misleading users into making donations that were collected by brave instead of the supposed recipient? That browser?
Alternatively, you could use a browser instead of an advertisement delivery app.
you can enable ublock in chrome by downloading firefox from chrome, installing it, then installing ublock in firefox and finally removing chrome
Just user Firefox lol
People will do anything, but use Firefox
I don’t think that comma belongs there
, Yeah I don’t, think so either,.
they were just making a statement and then also mentioning to use firefox
This guy gets it
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In what world does google docs etc not work in firefox? They’re webapps
As they note in the article, this is a temporary measure, I.E. guaranteed to break soon.
Start switching to Firefox now so you’re done when they finally turn it of. Ignore any other Chromium based browsers, it’s unlikely they have the manpower to extend MV2 beyond what Google supports with their LTS releases.
Completely anecdotally, but I’ve noticed that in the last few months, ublock origin installs on the Mozilla addons site has gone up. So i think people are already moving.
Firefox on iOS doesn’t offer any ad blocking. Vivaldi (and several other) Chromium browsers do. So for a good chunk of the mobile community, Firefox is not the best option.
Install uBO?
Blame Apple for that, as for the longest time they only allowed using the Safari engine on iOS. Apparently that’s still the case outside the EU now, meaning Mozilla would need to maintain two versions on iOS.
On any other operating system, Firefox is by far the best at blocking ads with uBlock Origin.
Orion browser on iOS supports Firefox and Chrome extensions. It’s relatively new still, but I’ve been using it without any issue with uBO
Apple limits mobile browsers a shit ton. When you get Firefox on iOS, you don’t get Firefox, you get what’s basically a safari front end. This is the reason you can install uBlock Origin or other extensions on the android version of Firefox, but be unable on the iOS version.
I know mate, but this isn’t about installing extensions. Both Vivaldi and Brave have built-in adblockers in their iOS versions. That is not prevented or restricted by Apple.
Just install AdGuard. Works great.
Yep, I wish Firefox stepped up in this matter, since their competition can implement decent adblockers on iOS, while dealing with the exact same limitations Apple has set.
Ios is never going to allow this. The best option is pihole and vpn
Ads are necessary curse for humanity. The general mass will never switch to open source or challenging alternatives and it sux
iOS already allows adblocker features for 3rd party browsers. Both Vivaldi and Brave have working adblockers, but Firefox does not.
Thank you. Glad one person has the ability to actually comprehend what I said. Vivaldi - and several others - does as blocking on iOS right now.
On iOS the Orion browser lets you use Firefox or chrome mods.
This. Orion is the best browser for iOS.
