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It sure is going to be annoying when approximately 0 people switch over to firefox due to the manifest V3 stuff.

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It won't be 0, but very few to make a difference.

I moved to MS edge because it blocks ads on mobile.

And why not firefox on mobile with ublock origin?

Firefox on Android has terrible scrolling latency/stutter for me and seemingly for a lot of people. On a 120hz screen, which chrome-based browsers can pull off fine, it's a real dealbreaker.

Try Firefox Beta, the scrolling is smoother on there and has more features not in the standard version.

I use firefox nightly as it seems to be a bit better IMO in many regards than the "stable". Sure there are some releases which aren't great but thats why it is nightly.

I'm using Firefox that blocks ads on Android (with uBO)

probably the people who would care are already there.

who saves a website to their local machine other than tech people anymore, for example.

I care and wasn't already there. I went from Firefox to Brave after the mobile extensions fiasco but, now, I'm coming back to Firefox because of v3 (Brave said they will not block v2, but due to the fact that they don't have their own store, you are forced to do installs from zip files, without auto update, which sucks).

I guess most tech people is already using pfblockerng or a pihole, so they are going to benefit from the better security of v3 plus using uBlock lite for cosmetic filtering.

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