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      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.

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      It’s been easily avoided for years now despite alarmists saying ad block would stop working as far back as 2020. I don’t even have an ad blocker installed on Vivaldi and the built in blocking has worked just fine, even the other day when people started having issues with YouTube V just kept doing its job.

      I’ll believe it when I see it, and the day it happens I’ll switch to FF. Until then I’m not going to reduce the user experience with this armchair virtue signalling that you all pretend is making a difference.

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      Yeah but putting all our hopes into Firefox is quite dangerous. All Google needs to do to fuck us over is to stop funding Firefox.

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    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.

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      why were you using microsoft edge?

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        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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    Running winget install firefox should fix that problem for windows users

    EDIT: Fuck off autocorrect

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

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

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    firefox did the same thing a while back. all plugins stopped working, some where updated and some lost forever. dont trust moz.

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      What, you own some Alphabet stock or something? This is absolutely false and borders on intentional disinformation.

      Firefox has had minor bloat/compatibility issues over the years, like old versions of all browsers… But nothing on this scale!

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        I mean, they absolutely did change their extension system, removing a lot of what the extensions had access to. Not to this level, no, but they did do that and a lot of what could be done with Firefox is no longer possible, so I’m not sure how that’s disinformation.

        An unfounded leap from that point to “don’t trust moz”, yes, but the extension change did happen.

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          too late…you had a different opinion in the echo chamber. anyways, ofcourse moz fucked this up. just like they did when killing weave and lying to the users that users could still host everything on their own servers. never worked. utter bs. so let’s keep Google search as the default search engine to get some money.