Firefox says it will keep supporting uBlock Origin even as Microsoft Edge and other Chromium browsers phase it out under Manifest V3.
Sometimes I think it was a mistake to let the programs we primarily use to view text and images become bloated virtual machines that execute megabytes of arbitrary code with every page load.
Well, like many other things: it’s not so much a “we” as it is a “them”.
But maybe we should reboot the whole navigation thing?
If it goes… I don’t know what I’ll do.
Go out and touch grass probably.
Get a hobby.
Perfect my molotov recipe.
Every boardroom has their price.
Someday.
I’m not so sure about that, Ublock is the reason I use Firefox, and I don’t think I’m alone in that. And I’m pretty sure they know that.
A misleading title shilling for Firefox. Brave has full support and it won’t even remove it nor does it actually need it as it has its own in-house fully hard coded adblock that doesn’t need Google services whatsoever.
Still a chromium based browser though.
How many braveshillings did you get for this comment?
Happy with Librewolf. I can’t imagine using my browser everyday if I don’t have a good adblocker on it like uBO.
donated 20 euro right away. HEROES.
Since there are only two major browsers… one of which admittedly wears many disguises.
Not entirely correct. When we look at engines there are Blink, gecko and webkit. Unless you also count Ladybird’s engine I guess.
Yes Blink is a webkit fork but it has been separate for a good while.
Isn’t it crazy that Safari and thereby also Chrome/Chromium are at the heart based on work by KDE for its Konqueror?
Can you call it a major browser though? Maybe.
Safari? Yes, it is most definitely a major browser, if anything Firefox isn’t one. So if we don’t count Firefox, then it would be only two indeed.
PS: Everything on an iPhone is forced to use webkit btw, so even Chrome is webkit on an iPhone. There are a lot of iOS users out there.
Why are people booing? They’re right.
Zen Browser ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ
So Firefox?
Alternate headline: Firefox is now the only browser worth using.
And in any case, lumping Firefox as one browser is disingenuous. There are numerous Firefox forks, just like every other major browser is in fact a Google Chromium fork.
Helium browser supports it too…
last major browser
If you stood outside the grocery store and asked people if they were “familiar with the browser Helium,” how many people would you reckon you’d ask before two people say yes?
Indeed, but Helium is the new kid on the block. What might surprise you more is how many people won’t have any idea what “a Firefox” is.
Calling it a “major” browser in the first place is pretty disingenuous by this article, when the popular usage metrics clearly show it to be a niche, if not obscure, choice of browser. Chrome has more than an order of magnitude more users than Firefox.
But things get truly silly when other niche/browsers are ignored in that same breath. Chrome has more than an order of magnitude larger userbase than Brave, too, but like with Firefox, it’s still less than two orders of magnitudes of difference. And while Firefox has a few times more users than Brave, there’s nowhere near an order of magnitude’s worth of difference either. Meaning, while they are not equivalent in size, they are certainly comparable.
If Firefox is a “major” browser, then Brave would have to at the very least be considered a “big” player, too. And we all know it ain’t a big player - not by a long shot.
I use brave. Built in youtube modifier and adblockers
It’s affiliated with a crypto scam and run by a homophobe
Vivaldi phases it out? I haven’t been off mobile in a while so I didn’t know that was planned. Waterfox still does ok.
Vivaldi = Chromium Waterfox = Firefox They are just forks.
I.e. it is the last usable browser.
I don’t understand. It’s still working for me on an up-to-date Brave.
Hopefully ladybird finalizes some day, so we have more options than one
its being rewritten in rust by ai now
hope is lost
but theres still also servo engine, which is more mature (but still experimental) and not vibe coded