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Re:Google Will Help Publishers Prepare for a Chrome Ad Block... by Animats on Thursday June 01, 2017 @09:53PM (#14466853)
I have doubts about an ad blocker created by an advertising company.

Right. Once Google gets this deployed, watch them remove ad-blocking add-ons from the Google Store.

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Re:Google Will Help Publishers Prepare for a Chrome Ad Block... by leeoniya on Thursday June 01, 2017 @10:16PM (#14466938)
i'm concerned about this as well, but i'm fine letting Chrome function simply as a dev tool and actually browse with Firefox, Opera, Servo, etc. w/uBlock Origin & uMatrix
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Re:Google Will Help Publishers Prepare for a Chrome Ad Block... by wbl on Thursday June 01, 2017 @10:47PM (#14467058)
Firefox has some pretty nice dev tool extensions.
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Re:Google Will Help Publishers Prepare for a Chrome Ad Block... by Mayzie on Thursday June 01, 2017 @11:26PM (#14467206)
It won't for long when they deprecate their extension API and move to Chromes...
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Re:Google Will Help Publishers Prepare for a Chrome Ad Block... by clouddrover on Friday June 02, 2017 @12:56AM (#14467550)
The dev tools are built into Firefox by default. So what do you base your claim on?
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Re:Google Will Help Publishers Prepare for a Chrome Ad Block... by y4mi on Friday June 02, 2017 @04:32AM (#14468395)
pretty sure he was talking about the extensions that extend them though. firebug comes to mind.
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Re:Google Will Help Publishers Prepare for a Chrome Ad Block... by clouddrover on Friday June 02, 2017 @04:41AM (#14468436)
Firefox DevTools was built from Firebug, which is why they no longer develop Firebug. See the Firebug website: http://getfirebug.com/

And here's some more history: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2016/12/firebug-lives-on-in-firefo...

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Re:Google Will Help Publishers Prepare for a Chrome Ad Block... by robin_reala on Friday June 02, 2017 @06:23AM (#14468852)
No, Firefox Dev Tools is a completely seperate project historically. Firebug version 3 and up built on top of it, but that’s the only connection (beyond commonality in tool function).
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Re:Google Will Help Publishers Prepare for a Chrome Ad Block... by H4CK3RM4N on Friday June 02, 2017 @04:10AM (#14468315)
They're sadly moving towards interoperability/feature-parity with WebExtensions, but I don't think they'll change entirely at any point.
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Re:Google Will Help Publishers Prepare for a Chrome Ad Block... by Crespyl on Friday June 02, 2017 @03:42PM (#14472759)
I think they've explicitly stated that they're planning to entirely remove XUL from the codebase, eventually.
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Re:Google Will Help Publishers Prepare for a Chrome Ad Block... by derefr on Thursday June 01, 2017 @11:52PM (#14467302)
Presumably that won't mean that Firefox will only install extensions from the Chrome Web Store, though. addons.mozilla.org will continue to exist.
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Re:Google Will Help Publishers Prepare for a Chrome Ad Block... by patrick_haply on Friday June 02, 2017 @01:07AM (#14467596)
> i'm fine letting Chrome function simply as a dev tool and actually browse with Firefox, Opera, Servo, etc. w/uBlock Origin & uMatrix

I'm definitely in the same boat. That makes me wonder if it would be a bad long-term move for Chrome. Just guessing here based on personal anecdata, developers are more likely to use ad blockers, which could alienate the developer community. If that's true, I wonder if we would see a resurgence in Firefox and other browsers.

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Re:Google Will Help Publishers Prepare for a Chrome Ad Block... by gjjrfcbugxbhf on Friday June 02, 2017 @06:29AM (#14468885)
Firefox needs to improve its dev tools first. I love Firefox as a browser but I find myself forced to use chromium devtools because I can't figure out how to get our source maps to work with Firefox :(
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Re:Google Will Help Publishers Prepare for a Chrome Ad Block... by clarkbw on Friday June 02, 2017 @07:37AM (#14469136)
This is going to get a whole lot better. Try nightly now to see what's coming.
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Re:Google Will Help Publishers Prepare for a Chrome Ad Block... by fmueller on Friday June 02, 2017 @06:52AM (#14468969)
I don't think this would will be the case as it will only make people who know how to install an ad-blocker move to firefox. I think they target the users not having an ad-blocker installed.
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