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I don't get it, the timeline has been known since 2021 and has not changed. We are in the middle of the phase-out. All of this is really predictable.
https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/develop/migrate/mv2-deprecation-timeline
Actually, as someone whose company has been working on updating extensions from MV2 to MV3 for the past four years, the timeline has changed. A couple of times, I think. Originally, MV2 was supposed to be entirely deprecated by the beginning of this year, but they've pushed it back twice and extended enterprise support even further.
It isn't? I just read that the "Chrome MV2 deprecation enterprise rollout" is in June 2025. When is the exact date for the end v2 support? "The changes will be rolled out over the coming months to Chrome Stable, with the goal of completing the transition by the beginning of next year." is not "predictable". It can be any time between 2024 November to 2025 April, maybe even May.
Imagine giving that kind of a time to friend "yeah, I'll show up probably at the beginning of 2025, but that's the plan, it may be all the way until June 2025". Very "predictable".
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It's really standard to leave some time for users to adapt when making a big change. Especially end users. It's actually a good thing, the "friend showing up" analogy makes no sense.
End of support for users is June 2024.
But it did seem to have changed a year ago or so, my bad.
Any browsers with good built-in adblocker besides brave? I feel like firefox's built-in content filtering does the very minimum, but I might be wrong
system-wide AdGuard
This is the way on mobile lol. The android rom I'm using comes with a built-in systemwide blocker, which I didn't know about for a very long time, so I was very confused when I saw other people using the same apps as me and seeing ads lol.
Avoiding FF while supporting Chromium based browsers is just the most nonsensical moronic shit I've ever heard in the whole browser debate.
Whatever. Keep donating to Mozilla and their dying, shitty browser and leave me alone. I didn't want to start a debate.
Because I don't like Mozilla and don't want to give them market share. And, well, because it suck badly.
A real answer, they pay their ceo millions, and they are hiring gen ai and ads engineers.
They stopped focusing on their core web browser product
LOL, why should I justify my choices to a stranger on the internet? I don't like Mozilla. Full stop.
Can you quantify why you don't like Mozilla?
I understand why someone might find Firefox itself subpar in some cases, but I'd like to hear what your issues with the organization are.
Are you seriously implying that that 2% of FF market share is what avoids the "hegemony"? lol.
Mozilla has worked very hard to sabotage FF. I've been a loyal FF user since 2002 and finally showed them the finger in 2021, when they confirmed that they don't respect their community. They are just another corp now. So, why should I use an inferior browser from them?
I won't reply further. I didn't want to start a debate and I'm quite pissed off of Mozilla advocates.
To my knowledge there are no browsers that have anything similar to brave built in. Ublock simply is incredibly well made (that’s what braves adblocker is based on), so I would always try to use that. Gnome web has in my experience the best built in Adblock except brave (fine for everything but YouTube). AFAIK Firefox forks can change what the built in content filter blocks, at least on librewolf some ads were missing even with ublock disabled.
Give it two more years and brave will stop backporting manifestv2, then you have even less options to avoid google deciding which content needs to be shoved in your face.
I'm using Firefox since forever. In the past I have checked a few times if a swap to chromium is worth it. It never was.
I really don't understand people that prefer Google over Mozilla. Firefox works like a charm and Google already knows enough about us IMHO.
I really don’t understand people that prefer Google over Mozilla. Firefox works like a charm and Google already knows enough about us IMHO.
Firefox objectively has poor responsiveness in some apps, hence why some "works only in chrome" banners are justified. Can't quite put my finger of it, but it got a lot worse somewhere between quantum and heartbleed(but not because of it, I checked), and it never recovered. In my own projects that were time-sensitive, like 3d games and music apps, I couldn't find the source of it, but found that while some approaches led to major performance hit on firefox, others majorly hit chromium, and vice versa, and it was all about juggling to finding an approach that doesn't hit either as hard. But in some cases there were none and so I had to choose. Obviously the browser engine with a higher market share wins. And because of that, to be on par with Chrome, Firefox not only has to be better, it has to be not worse in all cases, which is a rather tough challenge.
Brave shields are based on ubo, but are patched directly into chromium so they should be immune against v3. Still going to stay on Firefox, but brave is a decent backup option. https://brave.com/blog/brave-shields-manifest-v3/
LibreWolf ? First thing that came up when searching for a non-chrome browser with builtin adblocker.
The term "built-in" is a bit fuzzy here. Librewolf just uses ublock origin. It's only "built-in" in the sense that it's installed automatically
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But uBlock Origin does not set update_url in it's manifest.json so it won't update automatically. You'd have to do it manually every time.