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Re:The company behind Adblock Plus is acquiring micropayment... by Larrikin on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @03:00PM (#14044618)
Brave looks great, except it seems weird to make it a full fledged browser instead of simply a plugin
Re:The company behind Adblock Plus is acquiring micropayment... by nikcub on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @06:00PM (#14046036)
There is room in the market for another browser. One that is as good as Chrome but unencumbered by the conflicts of the advertising business.
Re:The company behind Adblock Plus is acquiring micropayment... by Larrikin on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @08:25PM (#14046930)
That sounds like Firefox
Re:The company behind Adblock Plus is acquiring micropayment... by nikcub on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @08:40PM (#14047002)
Sounds like Firefox with Electolysis finished, all chrome extensions working on all platforms and Chrome devtools ported over.

ie. Firefox becoming more like Chrome

Re:The company behind Adblock Plus is acquiring micropayment... by kuschku on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @09:47PM (#14047292)
Ignore the dev tools (Chrome's are worse than Firefox), but add hardware video decoding and hardware compositing
Re:The company behind Adblock Plus is acquiring micropayment... by nikcub on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @11:33PM (#14047728)
Ey! I should probably check it out then, thanks

My Firefox updates for the past few years have solely consisted of checking the dev wiki inconsistently and the issue tracker each time there was a Tor browser security issue - so I'm prob missing other stuff to

That said, I can't wait for Mozilla to come back. The world needs Firefox.

Re:The company behind Adblock Plus is acquiring micropayment... by walterbell on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @03:28PM (#14044809)
Are browser plugins possible on mobile devices?
Re:The company behind Adblock Plus is acquiring micropayment... by dublinben on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @03:39PM (#14044915)
Firefox for Android allows many of the same addons as the desktop browser, such as uBlock, HTTPS Everywhere, or Self-Destructing Cookies.
Re:The company behind Adblock Plus is acquiring micropayment... by pdelbarba on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @03:14PM (#14044719)
Yea, after further inspection it appears to be higher friction than it needs to be