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Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Microsoft Edge, Opera to follow (www.neowin.net)
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For a while now the transition away from Manifest V2 (MV2) to MV3 has been on-going and it looks like it is entering its final phase of deprecation, at least, in the case of Google Chrome. A recent discussion thread in the w3c WebExtensions Community Group GitHub repo has highlighted how the latest and upcoming versions of the most popular browser are expected to be its final releases with support for MV2 extensions.

What this essentially means is that the tricks and bypasses that were used to keep MV2 extensions like uBlock Origin and others alive will not work any more on Chrome, or at least not for very long. For example the Windows Registry mod that could extend MV2 availability will cease to function after Chromium version 151.

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[–] -1 points 3 months ago* (32 children)

I see a lot of comments (justifiably) touting firefox's superiority... but the performance difference is night and day.

My main pc has very weak hardware, and my browser is the most resource intensive application I run. In my environment, I can't leave firefox open with other heavy apps running simultaneously, but I can leave chrome open.

I've used firefox for decades in the past, but the gap is huge and it doesn't look like Mozilla will make the engine changes necessary to close it. Idk if things have changed, but I remember when they axed the Servo team.

I've been using Ungoogled Chromium and I'm hoping this doesn't affect me for a while... but if I have to choose between ads and closing my browser to run heavy apps, I guess I'll be reinstalling firefox.

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  • [–] 19 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    the performance difference is night and day

    People say this, but... performance for what? To show us ads?

    I'd much rather take the slightly-lower-performance browser that doesn't show ads. My brain cycles count as performance too.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Performance like opening a link crashes another application like my vms or cad applications or VS or a game. The performance differences are relatively minor, but it really matters on crappy hardware

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  • [–] [S] 10 points 3 months ago (8 children)

    Mozilla thought it would be a great idea to install AI features in Firefox and that brilliant decision may be causing your issue. Those AI features use an absurd amount of resources on some websites and when they're enabled on my laptop, FF regularly shows ~50% CPU.

    When all that BS is turned off CPU use drops to less than 2% most of the time. Search for "AI Controls" in settings and try shutting them all off.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I don't feel bad for people who whine about "well, I have to go into the settings and change a thing". How much did you pay for that browser again? Complacency is what keeps people in abusive ecosystems. Don't be complacent or you're part of the problem.

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    I don’t feel bad for people who whine about “well, I have to go into the settings and change a thing”. How much did you pay for that browser again? Complacency is what keeps people in abusive ecosystems. Don’t be complacent or you’re part of the problem.

    I'm having trouble making any sense of your word salad. Are you triggered because someone dared criticize a bonehead move by Mozilla, or are you upset that anyone's using Firefox's "abusive ecosystem" in the first place? Neither? Both?

    Firefox has lost nearly all of their users and now has less than 4% of the market. Adding a "feature" that makes computers virtually unusable without any indication as to why is yet another reason that's happened. Nevertheless, if poor implementation of a feature makes for an "abusive ecosystem" it means that by your definition all software is part of an abusive ecosystem.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    I don't trust at all that that setting stops AI features from using resources. They even go out of their way to say the features are 'blocked' instead of something more confidence-inducing like removed or uninstalled.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

    I did my testing before the AI features were implemented, and I tested a variety of custom profile settings for firefox (and floorp and librefox) and custom chrome flags for ungoogled chromium (and brave)...

    Granted, I was using benchmarks, but the differences are somewhere around 15-30% on my machine on Arch

    Edit: These are the benchmarks I ran

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Interesting running those... Haven't had to worry about benchmarks on my system, both Chrome and FF are plenty fast. I do wonder how the performance of Chrome with ads would compare to Firefox with the same ads blocked? Every once in a while I use some one else's computer and can't believe how many animated ads show up on pages I frequent.

    Do you just put up with the ads or block them another way?

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago* (13 children)

    Performance night and day? I don't think so lol. I daily Firefox. It works fine.

    And even if it didn't and it was slower.... I'll take slower over all those fucking shit ads

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    Not sure what your daily browsing is like but Firefox is notably slower across numerous sites than Chrome. And absolutely non-functional for some sites for me.

    I mean don't get me wrong, I use Firefox as much as damn near possible. But that's maybe....50% of sites with parity and 25% more if I'm OK with a degraded experience.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    I'm curious to know. I mean, I typically have dozens and dozens of tabs open and never shut my computer off. Curious what these numerous sites are, you're the only one that can attest to that.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Bill pay sites, banking sites, news sites, intranet sites.

    I was being generous in FF favor with 25% because I truly love it and use it even with the issues, but it is a daily problem for me for sure.

    And this is across two laptops, a desktop, a Linux system, and my phone.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (6 children)

    Yeah, of course ads aren't an option, but ungoogled chromium still supports mv2 for now and I can't watch a youtube video and play a video game at the same time with firefox on my machine...

    Granted, I'm probably trying to make inadequate hardware do more than it should, but chromium works and I don't want to upgrade my hardware right now.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (5 children)

    Now this in curious about. Why can't you do both at once?

    I daily game with Firefox and dozens of tabs open. Granted in using Linux.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

    Youtube is especially egregious. I've tried various hardware acceleration settings and h264ify but it really brings my pc to its knees.

    Im on linux, and when I run my windows vm (qemu kvm) with either Visual Studio, SQL Server Management Studio, or Fusion 360 in it, firefox on my host machine runnimg youtube just barely pushes it over the edge.

    I absolutely recognize how wild what I'm asking this little computer to do is, but I can just get away with it in chromium but not firefox (since the last time I checked)

    The day I can do it all with firefox I will be a happy camper

    Edit: also, I specifically said games but didn't name one... FFXIV and Deadlock both crash if I'm running youtube in chrome (and Discord at the same time).

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (3 children)

    I play elden ring, nightreign, harry Potter Hogwarts legacy, doom 2016 and eternal and a whole bunch of other shit. No issues.

    Also use YouTube. No issues.

    Are you using open source video drivers perhaps?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    I'm using an AMD APU, so just the regular mesa drivers.

    The last time I had issues was about a year and a half ago, and I switched to Brave, but a year later (5 months ago) I was convinced to give Ungoogled Chromium another chance by someone here on lemmy (because of all the controversy surrounding Brave).

    In the past I always used firefox because its customization features are so much richer, settings werent intrinsically tied to google (or amputated like in ungoogled), and the source code is more comprehensible (firefox is so neatly organized and easy to build yourself, and chromium is a giant mess under the hood).

    I really want to use firefox again... maybe I'll get a dell precision tower off ebay and shove a cheap old nvidia card in it with the proprietary drivers to solve my problems 😅

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    I've been on nvidia forever at this point. Personally looking forward to getting back to AMD next time around. They are more open with their drivers. You should try the AMD proprietary drivers instead.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago

    Hey I know it's been months, but after the discussion in this thread I built a new computer with a real GPU (I went AMD and I'm using the MESA drivers) and tons of ram, and I am happily running LibreWolf and it's awesome!

    In terms of ram utilization and GPU acceleration on this new machine with modern hardware, Firefox is negligible, as everyone told me it would be!

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    my boss (of 20+ years) abuses an old core2duo era desktop (8gb ram and sata ssd, both upgrades from original specs when 10 was put on) with 150+ tab firefox plus word and excel and voice software all going at once. never shuts down, never closes an application. sleeps, wakes, hibernates on weekends. it just keeps going. she's never had any problems and it runs really well. she'd be bitching if it didn't.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Brave and Vivaldi have built-in ad blockers. Brave’s is based on uBO; Vivaldi’s is based on ABP.

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