If Chrome can kill uBlock and use its dominance to do user-hostile stuff, and Firefox goes along "in the interest of cross-browser compatibility", then what the hell's the point of Firefox in the first place?
> We will support blocking webRequest until there’s a better solution which covers all use cases we consider important, since DNR as currently implemented by Chrome does not yet meet the needs of extension developers.
I often have a month or more long streak between every time I have to use Ch#%!e ;-)
Bonus point for devs: If it works in Firefox it usually works everywhere since Firefox had always been reasonably standard compliant.
Thanks for saying this.
I don't really get how the extension ecosystem works anyway -- extension developers are usually just sharing something they use to be helpful/make a point, and then some tack on donations thing, right? Since nobody is doing this to get rich I suspect they won't chase marketshare.
This is not the reason for me at least to not use it as my main browser.
I recently tested and the speed is good and it is absolutely wonderful to have true full fledged extensions and complete themes.
My reason is that I'm worried if their security is good enough. If we could somehow be sure about that I'd actually happily leave modern Firefox behind for it.
Personally I'm hoping for someone to create a patch set and bulld binaries based on it to re-enable the old stuff, not by letting extensions muck around in the internals but by providing defined extensions points like:
- enable / disable tab bar
- provide your own tab rendering code
- etc
Back to IRC DCC style sharing and distributed computing with VPN
No need to follow the money to do interesting engineering and computing. Interesting is subjective and wrapping a white paper in the cruft to host it as a service in the cloud isn’t interesting engineering
Part of me wonders if the chip shortage is real or just a way to hide big corp hoovering them up for DC hosted services.