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I don’t care about Chrome (having ditched it long ago). On the other hand, I do care about whatever Chrome implements having an adverse impact on Firefox. Mozi
by newscracker 7y ago
I don’t care about Chrome (having ditched it long ago). On the other hand, I do care about whatever Chrome implements having an adverse impact on Firefox.
Mozilla has said before that Manifest V3 is up for consideration in Firefox and that “there are no immediate plans to remove” the existing APIs (mainly webRequest). [1] If Mozilla makes the power of uBlock Origin untenable on Firefox [2], that’d be a sad day for me, and I’d probably switch to Brave (assuming it’s still able to support uBlock Origin, even though it has a built-in as blocker).
If anyone from Mozilla or the Firefox team is reading this, please lead the way on these changes in a way that improves security (one of the goals of Manifest V3) while allowing extensions to remain powerful. Letting Google dictate the terms or just following Chrome will likely make Firefox worse in the eyes of power users and those who influence others to use it.
[1]: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/09/03/mozillas-manifest-v3-faq/ https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/09/03/mozillas-manifest...
[2]: like it did with the XUL obsolescence (for good reasons) and the removal of great extensions like Tab Mix Plus and Session Manager (without providing a way forward for them to work; session saving extensions on Firefox are still not as good as the mozdev Session Manager was).
- snagglegaggle 7y agoMozilla is full of either cowards or sellouts. When the page visibility API was added to Firefox for Android and used to automatically pause nonvisible YouTube pages they ignored user arguments for blocking it.