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It's significantly faster and ublock origin works. Seems like getting parity would take a year+ So I guess they decided it's worth dumping the current code ba

by Jonnax 6y ago

It's significantly faster and ublock origin works. Seems like getting parity would take a year+ So I guess they decided it's worth dumping the current code base to focus on the rewrite.

johannes1234321 6y ago
Especially since they now get an outcry and see which features are actually required and which others, they could have invested time on are not required. In the FAQ they announced a few features "within three weeks" which for me is the thing about "most frequent pages" being shown on a new tab. Quite a habit of mine to use that ...
- Macha 6y ago
  Relying on removing features then seeing which ones get you yelled at is not a great approach to building trust in your users. when you classify adding to tickets about the missing features with comments like "I really need this feature and it's omission is causing me to look elsewhere" as unproductive (or even in other projects taking a similar approach some have called it harassment) at the same time, it's a bad look.
coffeeaddicted 6y ago
Just got the new Firefox on my tablet earlier and ublock origin did unfortunately not work well after the update. Ads are no longer removed, but replaced by whitespace with a loading icon in the middle. I'm still considering if I find that more or less annoying than browsing with ads enabled.
- tpxl 6y ago
  That may be a uBlock issue. On youtube at least, sometimes the ads don't get skipped, but you get a white "video" you can skip instead.
- gorhill 6y ago
  > replaced by whitespace with a loading icon in the middle This seems to be a filter issue, please submit cases to filter list maintainers. Note that "Ignore generic cosmetic filters" is checked by default in Firefox for Android, it's something you may want to toggle.[1] * * * [1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dashboard:-Filter-lists https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dashboard:-Filter-lis...

by Jonnax 6y ago

It's significantly faster and ublock origin works. Seems like getting parity would take a year+ So I guess they decided it's worth dumping the current code base to focus on the rewrite.

johannes1234321 6y ago

Especially since they now get an outcry and see which features are actually required and which others, they could have invested time on are not required. In the FAQ they announced a few features "within three weeks" which for me is the thing about "most frequent pages" being shown on a new tab. Quite a habit of mine to use that ...

Macha 6y ago
Relying on removing features then seeing which ones get you yelled at is not a great approach to building trust in your users. when you classify adding to tickets about the missing features with comments like "I really need this feature and it's omission is causing me to look elsewhere" as unproductive (or even in other projects taking a similar approach some have called it harassment) at the same time, it's a bad look.

coffeeaddicted 6y ago

Just got the new Firefox on my tablet earlier and ublock origin did unfortunately not work well after the update. Ads are no longer removed, but replaced by whitespace with a loading icon in the middle. I'm still considering if I find that more or less annoying than browsing with ads enabled.

tpxl 6y ago
That may be a uBlock issue. On youtube at least, sometimes the ads don't get skipped, but you get a white "video" you can skip instead.
gorhill 6y ago
> replaced by whitespace with a loading icon in the middle This seems to be a filter issue, please submit cases to filter list maintainers. Note that "Ignore generic cosmetic filters" is checked by default in Firefox for Android, it's something you may want to toggle.[1] * * * [1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dashboard:-Filter-lists https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dashboard:-Filter-lis...