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> But the days (or years) of uBlock Origin seem to be numbered because of the approach proposed by Chrome (called Manifest V3) to prevent extensions from modifying network requests

Numbered on Chrome, you mean.

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Firefox tends to follow Chrome closely. And as time goes on, they limit extensions more and more. The latest preview of Firefox Mobile doesn't support them at all. Hopefully, it is just temporary but it used to be the killer feature of Firefox mobile.

It is not pure evil, there are security reasons behind that. Manifest V3 is also a security improvement so I wouldn't put it passed Mozilla to implement it.

Mozilla has officially said [1] that it has no immediate plans to implement this kind of content blocking and removing the requests API for extensions, but I think it’s a matter of time before this is done. Mozilla’s FAQ on this [1] is extensive enough for the moment.

[1]: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/09/03/mozillas-manifest...

Exactly. The only thing I use Chrome for is Google stuff (GSuite, some YouTube). Everything else: firefox.

GSuite has been getting better in FF. I used to have major issues with GSites (new) but now I can leave FF open for week+ without crashes or spinning if GSites tabs are open.

I use Chrome mostly to edit the GSites or present GSlides in full screen (in FF it still shows the window chrome in fullscreen).

Please see my reply below at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21341599

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