• Railcar8095@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      I guess extension developers will slowly stop, unless extremely hampered.

      Will there be many extensions with active development that still use V2? Either they focus on Firefox or they have two versions.

      At that point, why not make ublock part of Firefox, like brave did?

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          1 year ago

          It’s more work and will create different set of features.

          So no, not crazy, but really inconvenient and for a very limited amount of users

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        1 year ago

        I think Firefox will support both v2 and v3 extensions, so devs can use whichever makes more sense for their project. It has been a while since I looked into it though.

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          1 year ago

          For the time being, yes, they will support both. But V2 will only work on Firefox (and forks) and I think brave, a very small percentage of users.

          So given that it will be like supporting two different extensions, I assume most extension developers will just switch to v3.

          How long after most extensions are v3 until Firefox drops/stops supporting is anybodies guess.

          It’s actually a great example of how chromes dominant position is screwing other browsers

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      1 year ago

      I use Firefox as my daily browser, but I tried the manifest v3 based uBlock experiment in Chrome and honestly I couldn’t tell the difference between it and the regular uBlock.

      I welcome people switching over, but I don’t think this is anywhere near the killing blow to adblocking people think it is.

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      1 year ago

      But Google search has gotten so much more interesting these days. Glue in pizza, spaghetti in gasoline sauce, jumping off bridges when feeling depressed.

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        1 year ago

        To be honest, jumping off a bridge stops feeling depression… And so the other feelings.

        But for real, I hope nobody did anything irreversible due to this stun.