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I don't particularly blame Mozilla/Firefox for this but it is obvious to me the writing is on the wall for the "non-lite" version of the extension, due to Chrom

I don't particularly blame Mozilla/Firefox for this but it is obvious to me the writing is on the wall for the "non-lite" version of the extension, due to Chrome stealing all the manpower towards the lite version. The fact that the author is now publishing the "lite" extension also for Firefox itself looks as confirmation to me. The author's description even seems to praise Manifest v3 in the same way Google PR did. Who wouldn't? It's one less version to maintain, and you're not going to stop maintaining the one most people use.

faeriechangling 3y ago
I'm not so pessimistic that no maintainer would be interested in maintaining the full fat uBo. I've got to imagine there's still quite a few people using the project. To some extent I have to ask - who cares that Chrome is more broadly used? That never stopped Firefox and its extensions from becoming popular in the first place. All it took for Firefox to rise was the competition being crap, and well the competition is becoming crap. Chromium's monopoly doesn't stop a few contrarian developers from continuing to keep their websites Firefox compatible.
- paulryanrogers 3y ago
  Google pushes Chrome across all its web properties. Between Chrome itself and its soft forks I see little reason for hope. Especially since Mozilla gets so much hate from power users such as those here.
eipi10_hn 3y ago
> The author's description even seems to praise Manifest v3 in the same way Google PR did. No, it simply declares the goal of that add-on: to fully comply with declarative ways of MV3 AND its limitations, and no uBO extended features that need workarounds to be implemented. He's more strict to Lite than full version: - https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/issues/17 https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/issues/17 - https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/issues/6#issuecomment-1314100238 https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/issues/6#issuecomm...

faeriechangling 3y ago

I'm not so pessimistic that no maintainer would be interested in maintaining the full fat uBo. I've got to imagine there's still quite a few people using the project. To some extent I have to ask - who cares that Chrome is more broadly used? That never stopped Firefox and its extensions from becoming popular in the first place. All it took for Firefox to rise was the competition being crap, and well the competition is becoming crap. Chromium's monopoly doesn't stop a few contrarian developers from continuing to keep their websites Firefox compatible.

paulryanrogers 3y ago
Google pushes Chrome across all its web properties. Between Chrome itself and its soft forks I see little reason for hope. Especially since Mozilla gets so much hate from power users such as those here.

eipi10_hn 3y ago

> The author's description even seems to praise Manifest v3 in the same way Google PR did. No, it simply declares the goal of that add-on: to fully comply with declarative ways of MV3 AND its limitations, and no uBO extended features that need workarounds to be implemented. He's more strict to Lite than full version: - https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/issues/17 https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/issues/17 - https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/issues/6#issuecomment-1314100238 https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/issues/6#issuecomm...