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    Still surprised there are so many people using Chrome.

    They’re this generations grannies who were stubborn about using Internet Explorer.

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      There are only chrome, Firefox and safari. All other browsers are derivative of the one above. Chrome is objectively the best from the technical prospective: better support for web technologies, more stable, and better performance. This is not the same as IE that was actually a bad browser.

      You either choose a derivative of chrome with better interface and privacy default (vivaldi?), a derivative of Firefox if you care about open web (librewolf?) or a derivative of safari if you have macOS (orion?). But it is still one of those 3, and if google kill manifest v2 then manifest v2 is killed for all derivatives.

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      They disabled it with flags, but manifest V2 still existed in the code and could be enabled. This is about Google now removing V2 from the code. That will make it harder for third party browsers to include V2, since they would need to patch it back in and develop new patches to keep it working.

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        The point was made very strongly at the time. Don’t use a Google driven chrome project. You don’t have that issue on Firefox or its forks.

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          I have NO idea why Firefox has such a low adoption rate. I’ve been using it ever since Netscape Navigator was outdated and ive never had issues with it. uBlock Origin on mobile, baby!

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            It used to freeze up a lot; and, then, you lost all tabs, if it did. That’s why I’d stopped using it and switched to Chrome, back in the day.

            With all the crap Google’s doing, I tried Firefox out again something like 5 or 7 years ago and it’s now better than what Chrome offers (for me, of course; I’d’ve probably still switched, anyway, just to deGoogle my life further).

            I do find it starts to massively lag when I get to a certain number of tabs/windows; but Chrome doesn’t seem to ever shut off my CPU fans under the same level of load so not like it gets a leg up.

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    Biggest problem is that people are stupid and can’t comprehend that there are alternatives to the shit being served up.

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      I’d argue it’s the government’s fault. In the computer-age government’s failed to educate their populations on what and how to use computers. They instead taught their students how to use X, Y and Z software. Ignorance here is the root of the problem. A symptom of ignorance could be stupidity I suppose… but users are lazy too. Governments also failed to regulate the nascent software-industries whilst pouring billions into that market. It’s too harsh to just criticize the individual.

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    I remember the junkbuster proxy from before this stuff was done with browser extensions. Is it time for that approach to make a comeback?

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      No, it’s time for people to finally get their asses in gear and fucking ditch Chromium-based browsers for Firefox-based ones.

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        Google owns Mozilla and have been slowly getting their greedy fingers in there and they have been changing it to suit their purposes.

        Mozilla has been resisting, but it’s only a matter of time.