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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.
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Re:The company behind Adblock Plus is acquiring micropayment... by Larrikin on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @08:25PM (#14046930)
That sounds like Firefox
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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

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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
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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.

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