Re:Browser diversity starts with us
by rchaud on Monday February 04, 2019 @08:16AM
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MS waited far too long to add things liken Ublock and Ghostery to Edge. I see they are available now, but for at least a year after its release, there were no such extensions in the app store. In this day and age, using a browser without an adblocker makes it hard to consider switching away from your current setup.
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I'm not sure everyone sees how lousy Chrome adblockers are going to be after this set of Google proposed changes.
The API doesn't let you add to the list of blocked uris outside of posting a new release of an extension. Ouch.
They created a discussion thread, but the Chromium developers have been absent for a while: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/chrom...
I'm not sure there's much to discuss. The API didn't provide any way to add an item to the blocked list. That's clearly deliberate, and has nothing to do with the stated goal of improving performance.
I can only gather that the actual goal is very different from the stated goal.
Firefox it is then. I have defaulted to Chrome because of DevTools and I'm just used to the keyboard shortcuts.
I have Firefox on OSX already, and it runs smoothly. Unfortunately mobile Firefox (while supporting all those extensions), has a jittery scroll issue on Android, so I use the Chromium-based Kiwi Browser (for night mode) or Brave (for built in adblocking).
Re:Browser diversity starts with us
by PrototypeNM1 on Monday February 04, 2019 @12:02PM
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Iirc Firefox Mobile's jittery scroll was fixed in the last couple months (along with fling velocity) so it might be worth checking again.