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Exactly. The whole point of this HN post is that people are annoyed and upset about Safari doing this. Ultimately this and Chrome's potential upcoming changes h
by jzl 7y ago
Exactly. The whole point of this HN post is that people are annoyed and upset about Safari doing this. Ultimately this and Chrome's potential upcoming changes have driven me back to using Firefox almost exclusively.
- tssva 7y agoMozilla's statement regarding Manifest V3 hints that Mozilla is likely to follow the same path at a later date. They face the same security and privacy issues surrounding plugins that have driven Apple and Google to make the changes they have.
- p4t44 7y ago> We have no immediate plans to remove blocking webRequest and are working with add-on developers to gain a better understanding of how they use the APIs in question to help determine how to best support them. I don't take from that they will apply it in the future, just they don't want to rule anything out. source: https://www.ghacks.net/2019/09/03/mozilla-wont-follow-google-in-limiting-apis-in-coming-extensions-manifest-v3/ https://www.ghacks.net/2019/09/03/mozilla-wont-follow-google...