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.
What’s to stop the developers of a Chromium fork like Cromite from mainting MV2 compatibility themselves?
Cromite’s only flaw (IMO) is that it based it’s built in adblocker on AdBlock instead of Ublock.
I’ve tried moving to Firefox and I don’t know, it just feels ugh to me. (scientific critique, I know…). It’s just something I can’t put my finger on; Firefox just doesn’t feel performative. whether that’s a frame-buffer animation thing, or icon shadows, or something else entirely, it just feels off to me in some uncally valley sort of way.
Visibility.
See: Helium Browser. Which is already doing this, and shipping full UBO, yet most aren’t aware of it.
Also see: this comment is minimized by default, and most of Lemmy will never know the answer to OP’s question already exists. There are probably other forks that do this, too.
Performative is not the word you intended, but may be apt.
I’ve heard this from others but don’t see meaningful difference myself
Yeah. I don’t know how to describe it. It’s ineffable in that respect. Things like scrolling, etc… just feel a touch off in ways that are difficult to put words to. Not enough to be consciously noticeable; just enough to creep out the lizard-part of your brain that just knows when something doesn’t feel right.
“Performant” means it performs well. Performative means they’re doing something as a performance rather than for substance, doing something just as a show, like Trump reading Bible quotes
It’s a lot of work, mostly. And how many of those V2 extensions are going to continue to provide patches anyway.
Maybe it’s the subliminal messages Google has been injecting over the years to make you avoid Firefox/non-chromium browsers.
Well that would certainly explain my irrational fear of foxes.
Not just extensions but websites as well.