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Re:Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now by tapoxi on Friday February 03, 2023 @09:02AM (#34641139)
This post is over a year old. Requiring Manifest v3 has been indefinitely postponed. There are arguments for using Firefox, but if people keep crying wolf about Manifest v3 before it hits and has a negative impact, especially over such a long timespan, it loses its impact.
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Re:Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now by VyseofArcadia on Friday February 03, 2023 @09:23AM (#34641337)
Yeah, there was some blowback to make the big G reconsider, but don't you worry. I'm sure they're cooking up something similarly nefarious to accomplish their goal.

Google is the world's biggest ad company. Sufficiently few people use ad blocking that I don't think it's an existential threat, but as long as the shareholders demand infinite growth, getting rid of ad blocking will be seductive to Google.

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Re:Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now by jjoonathan on Friday February 03, 2023 @10:12AM (#34642046) 

    The goals of the advertising business model
    do not always correspond to providing quality search to users.
    - Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page
    - The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine
Ditto for extensible browsers.
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Re:Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now by freedude on Friday February 03, 2023 @05:06PM (#34648404)
I feel like they lost me when they got rid of "Don't be Evil" as their motto. I realized their slide down the slippery slope was well underway.
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Re:Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now by BarryMilo on Friday February 03, 2023 @09:20AM (#34641308)
"Mandatory beatings have been indefinitely postponed"
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Re:Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now by dbsmith83 on Friday February 03, 2023 @09:34AM (#34641474)
I have seen this phrase in several places, but cannot find the origin of the phrase. Where is it from?
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Re:Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now by trarmp on Friday February 03, 2023 @09:43AM (#34641573)
It could well be a riff on the more famous, "The beatings will continue until morale improves"
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Re:Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now by monetus on Friday February 03, 2023 @09:48AM (#34641671)
I thought it was an upside down version of "the beatings will continue until morale improves."
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Re:Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now by dbsmith83 on Friday February 03, 2023 @06:27PM (#34649319)
Oh that's it.. no wonder why I couldn't find it. I didn't have enough coffee this morning.
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Re:Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now by frx on Friday February 03, 2023 @09:53AM (#34641740)
> Requiring Manifest v3 has been indefinitely postponed.

From docs [1]: "As of January 17, 2022 the Chrome Web Store has stopped accepting new Manifest V2 extensions."

[1]: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/mv3/intro/

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