Google continues its rollout of gradually disabling uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2-based extensions in the Chrome web browser as part of its efforts to push users to Manifest V3-based extensions. […]

  • k_rol
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    24 hours ago

    I’ve been telling my friends and family about going to Firefox and they just prefer the status quo. I kind of hope Chrome becomes unusable soon. Does this make me a psychopath?

    • @[email protected]
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      422 hours ago

      It may be the only way to save them.

      (That’s a paraphrase of a line from an Adam Sandler skit, “Joining a Cult”).

    • JackGreenEarth
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      -423 hours ago

      Firefox needs a better default UI theme. There are so many custom userChrome.css themes out there, they just need to adopt a good one as default - eg the GNOME styled theme.

      New users get scared off that it looks old, even if the functionality is good, and even if they learnt the complex process to change the theme, it’s both not straightforward, and there’s no way they would even really know it’s an option.

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          113 hours ago

          I don’t mean the colours, I mean the userChrome.css themes that actually change the css to make it look palatable.

  • tehWrapper
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    421 hours ago

    I thought this happened a year ago…