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Re:Opera, Brave, Vivaldi to ignore Chrome's anti-ad-blocker ... by owaislone on Sunday June 09, 2019 @04:23PM (#20141660)
Since Firefox support WebExtensions now (or will soon get it) which are very close to Chrome extensions, it wouldn't be unthinkable for all non-Chrome browsers to use Firefox store instead of the Chrome one. I think Mozilla could even be convinced to open it up as an "open web extensions" store or collaborate with others to build a new one. They certainly have the infrastructure and experience to run one.
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Re:Opera, Brave, Vivaldi to ignore Chrome's anti-ad-blocker ... by nedp on Sunday June 09, 2019 @06:59PM (#20142458)
Mozilla supports WebExtensions since 57+ afaik. Not sure about this if there are some differences in implementation and API's between Firefox's WebExt and Chrome's.
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Re:Opera, Brave, Vivaldi to ignore Chrome's anti-ad-blocker ... by skymt on Sunday June 09, 2019 @07:23PM (#20142557)
MDN has a page documenting differences in API support between major WebExtension browsers:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...

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Re:Opera, Brave, Vivaldi to ignore Chrome's anti-ad-blocker ... by techntoke on Sunday June 09, 2019 @05:30PM (#20142050)
Uh, Firefox already supports WebExtensions and it is like common knowledge. Mozilla barely has the experience to run a sync service, and even that is a disaster.
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Re:Opera, Brave, Vivaldi to ignore Chrome's anti-ad-blocker ... by nedp on Sunday June 09, 2019 @06:57PM (#20142449)
I don't think Firefox Sync is a disaster. In fact, it's the opposite. They managed to handle the service pretty well.
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Re:Opera, Brave, Vivaldi to ignore Chrome's anti-ad-blocker ... by l30n4da5 on Sunday June 09, 2019 @10:19PM (#20143366)
not originally. when sync first came out, and for a while after, it was a dumpster fire.

that being said, it is load better now.

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