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This is fantastic news, especially if this fork is well maintained and/or gets merged upstream. Safari has the lightest battery usage and fastest speed by far o

by Archio 10y ago

This is fantastic news, especially if this fork is well maintained and/or gets merged upstream. Safari has the lightest battery usage and fastest speed by far of any browser on my Macbook, but it sucks that the best extensions aren't always available.

BipolarElsa 10y ago
>or gets merged upstream I don't understand what that means. Do you mean that it will be updated automatically on your Safari once you download it initially?
- enzanki_ars 10y ago
  By merging it upstream, I would be updated by the creator of uBlock Origin, instead of updates coming from someone else.
- devy 10y ago
  This repo is a fork of gorhill/uBlock. Merging it upstream means merging the changes in this fork back to gorhill/uBlock so that majority of the UO community can enjoy the Safari compatibility of UO and this fork's user base can enjoy bugfixes from the gorhill/uBlock. And as users of ad blockers, we don't end up with 2 similar but slightly different softwares. Ideally, this fork should be merged back as a PR to the original repo instead of advertising it as-is.
rogual 10y ago
There's a [dead] comment replying to this that seems like a perfectly reasonable, non-inflammatory question. What's going on?
- grzm 10y ago
  Likely a banned account. If you think it's worthwhile, you can click "vouch" to reanimate it, as it were. Yup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12869685 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12869685
Kluny 10y ago
I read this yesterday and fired up Safari for the first time. Once I got uBlock installed and my settings the way I wanted, the experience was fine, except one thing. There seems to be a tiny delay when I tap-to-click on the trackpad (2012 MBP). Does anyone else get that? It's the only problem I have with Safari, but it'll almost annoying enough to drive me back to Chrome.
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This is fantastic news, especially if this fork is well maintained and/or gets merged upstream. Safari has the lightest battery usage and fastest speed by far o

by Archio 10y ago

BipolarElsa 10y ago
>or gets merged upstream I don't understand what that means. Do you mean that it will be updated automatically on your Safari once you download it initially?
- enzanki_ars 10y ago
  By merging it upstream, I would be updated by the creator of uBlock Origin, instead of updates coming from someone else.
- devy 10y ago
  This repo is a fork of gorhill/uBlock. Merging it upstream means merging the changes in this fork back to gorhill/uBlock so that majority of the UO community can enjoy the Safari compatibility of UO and this fork's user base can enjoy bugfixes from the gorhill/uBlock. And as users of ad blockers, we don't end up with 2 similar but slightly different softwares. Ideally, this fork should be merged back as a PR to the original repo instead of advertising it as-is.
rogual 10y ago
There's a [dead] comment replying to this that seems like a perfectly reasonable, non-inflammatory question. What's going on?
- grzm 10y ago
  Likely a banned account. If you think it's worthwhile, you can click "vouch" to reanimate it, as it were. Yup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12869685 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12869685
Kluny 10y ago
I read this yesterday and fired up Safari for the first time. Once I got uBlock installed and my settings the way I wanted, the experience was fine, except one thing. There seems to be a tiny delay when I tap-to-click on the trackpad (2012 MBP). Does anyone else get that? It's the only problem I have with Safari, but it'll almost annoying enough to drive me back to Chrome.
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