A great video about the Manifest v3 and how Google is trying to make you view ads.

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    11 months ago

    why are people that allergic to firefox?

    vivaldi is chrome with extra steps

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      11 months ago

      Mostly because the browsing experience IMO is much much worse with Firefox. I tried extensions to get functionality back, it made it worse - slower, buggy, extensions would stop being developed etc. I wish Firefox was better, I really do. But IME it’s frozen functionality like it’s 2010 or so. Like, they have tabs, who hoo. I really find save/restore, multi window control, tab stacks, sessions, workspaces, and easy UI config pretty important in day to day use. That said, I also think ads are a deal breaker, but I really wonder if this won’t bring back some of the ad-blocking proxies you run locally or something.

      Or, someone forks chromium to keep Manifest v2 or whatever.

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        11 months ago

        I use both Firefox and Chrome-based browsers and I haven’t come across any major differences in functionality. What are all these things Chrome can do that Firefox can’t?

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        11 months ago

        those are all things that don’t exist on most browsers without many extensions