Your Chrome extensions may stop working in 2024 (www.ghacks.net)
from throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to technology@lemmy.world on 17 Nov 2023 12:10
https://lemmy.nz/post/3464312

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Jaysyn@kbin.social on 17 Nov 2023 12:12 next collapse

Fortunately, this is easily avoided by not using Chrome.

Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works on 17 Nov 2023 12:18 next collapse

Common Firefox W

RooPappy@kbin.social on 17 Nov 2023 13:38 next collapse

It would be best to make the switch today. That has the dual benefit of a) Showing Google that they will lose users, and maybe they will change their mind (again), and b) Show every website that they do need to put actual effort into supporting and testing against Firefox.

ftbd@feddit.de on 18 Nov 2023 09:16 collapse

Best? Better than not using chrome in the first place?

c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world on 17 Nov 2023 21:13 collapse

It’s been easily avoided for years now despite alarmists saying ad block would stop working as far back as 2020. I don’t even have an ad blocker installed on Vivaldi and the built in blocking has worked just fine, even the other day when people started having issues with YouTube V just kept doing its job.

I’ll believe it when I see it, and the day it happens I’ll switch to FF. Until then I’m not going to reduce the user experience with this armchair virtue signalling that you all pretend is making a difference.

laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 18 Nov 2023 06:14 collapse

So… You’re already not using Chrome…

c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world on 18 Nov 2023 07:07 next collapse

That depends heavily on who you ask, around here.

Salix@sh.itjust.works on 18 Nov 2023 14:51 collapse

Vivaldi is based off of Chromium though

laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 19 Nov 2023 05:26 collapse

Chromium isn’t Chrome… And they work to keep the worst of what googie tries to force into the core chromium project from Chrome out of their implementation. One of the benefits of chromium itself being open source.

Tygr@lemmy.world on 17 Nov 2023 12:42 next collapse

Recently made the switch from Edge to Firefox to fully ditch Chromium. The more I read, the more I realize it was a great decision.

0x2d@lemmy.ml on 18 Nov 2023 14:26 collapse

why were you using microsoft edge?

Tygr@lemmy.world on 18 Nov 2023 17:07 next collapse

I liked it. Found it better than Chrome for my needs to finally get away from Google. I hadn’t realized I went from Chrome to Chromium. Within a year, I am now switched to Firefox. After theming it and stuff, I’m now liking it way more than everything else. It does everything I need and looks beautiful.

I also enjoy Firefox Focus on iOS which is basically incognito on steroids. Any time I click a link, it defaults to FFF.

iFarmGolems@lemmy.world on 18 Nov 2023 19:28 collapse

It’s better than chrome. Smaller memory footprint and a bit faster. Source: I’m web dev.

kambusha@feddit.ch on 17 Nov 2023 12:47 next collapse

The popular uBlock Origin extension, for example, would be limited under Manifest V3. The developer created uBlock Origin Lite, a reduced version that is compatible with Manifest V3.

Frellwit@lemmy.world on 17 Nov 2023 13:15 collapse

uBO Lite have a lot of limitations:

jol@discuss.tchncs.de on 17 Nov 2023 20:05 next collapse

Hilarious. Please people, just stop using Chrome seriously. There’s no reason to do it.

JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz on 17 Nov 2023 23:09 next collapse

Sounds like manifest 3 would also break extensions like Stylish, Greasemonkey and Dark Reader, basically anything that injects or interacts with the html, css or JavaScript of a page in any way.

laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 18 Nov 2023 06:17 collapse

Basically, most actually useful extensions

laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 18 Nov 2023 06:17 collapse

Well, googie has certainly given me ample reason to never use Chrome again… Not that I ever planned to anyway, but still…

TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml on 17 Nov 2023 14:10 next collapse

“Your”?

Lantern@lemmy.world on 17 Nov 2023 16:10 next collapse

Is the correct word to use here grammatically.

Senex@reddthat.com on 17 Nov 2023 17:46 next collapse

You’re missing a word and a question mark in your sentence.

killeronthecorner@lemmy.world on 17 Nov 2023 18:25 collapse

I think they were joking about the fact that they don’t have chrome, thus no extensions

Senex@reddthat.com on 17 Nov 2023 17:36 collapse

Yes, “your”. Your is the possessive form of the pronoun you and indicates ownership.

Sanctus@lemmy.world on 17 Nov 2023 14:19 next collapse

🎶No they won’t because I don’t use chrome 🎶

SapphironZA@lemmings.world on 17 Nov 2023 14:20 next collapse

I made the switch to waterfox (Firefox fork) that strips out much of the problematic mozilla stuff.

I started to switch because of the tab containers, as I work across a dozen or so accounts in our MSP business.

Now I realised how good Firefox can be if you get rid of the bloat.

glimse@lemmy.world on 17 Nov 2023 15:47 collapse

Firefox is great regardless of “the bloat”

SapphironZA@lemmings.world on 17 Nov 2023 15:58 collapse

I would say it’s good, but could be great with small adjustments in the way it is packaged.

rob299@lemmy.world on 17 Nov 2023 14:38 next collapse

In other words, these older extentions work just fine, no one wants the new limited features, and google is force disabling older extentions despite any outcries from its users because it can.

Piecemakers3Dprints@lemmy.world on 17 Nov 2023 15:14 next collapse

Stop. Using. Chrome. FFS.

257m@sh.itjust.works on 18 Nov 2023 00:05 next collapse

No do it for your own sake. Or simply your sanity.

iFarmGolems@lemmy.world on 18 Nov 2023 19:27 collapse

But Firefox is way slower than chrome…

Piecemakers3Dprints@lemmy.world on 19 Nov 2023 01:32 collapse

You dropped this: /s

iFarmGolems@lemmy.world on 19 Nov 2023 20:13 collapse

Sure buddy.

www.phoronix.com/…/Firefox-Chrome-109-Benchmarks

I’m a web dev and can instantly tell the difference. It’s very noticeable when rendering maps on browser (what I do).

Average Pete browsing news sites won’t tell the difference though, I agree with that.

makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml on 17 Nov 2023 15:56 next collapse

Good. Firefox is the answer.

Senex@reddthat.com on 17 Nov 2023 17:22 collapse

For me, the future is Firefox and Linux.

yournamehere@lemm.ee on 17 Nov 2023 16:45 next collapse

firefox did the same thing a while back. all plugins stopped working, some where updated and some lost forever. dont trust moz.

Empricorn@feddit.nl on 18 Nov 2023 14:13 collapse

What, you own some Alphabet stock or something? This is absolutely false and borders on intentional disinformation.

Firefox has had minor bloat/compatibility issues over the years, like old versions of all browsers… But nothing on this scale!

laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 18 Nov 2023 16:29 collapse

I mean, they absolutely did change their extension system, removing a lot of what the extensions had access to. Not to this level, no, but they did do that and a lot of what could be done with Firefox is no longer possible, so I’m not sure how that’s disinformation.

An unfounded leap from that point to “don’t trust moz”, yes, but the extension change did happen.

yournamehere@lemm.ee on 20 Nov 2023 14:07 collapse

too late…you had a different opinion in the echo chamber. anyways, ofcourse moz fucked this up. just like they did when killing weave and lying to the users that users could still host everything on their own servers. never worked. utter bs. so let’s keep Google search as the default search engine to get some money.

laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 20 Nov 2023 18:19 collapse

I have no idea what you’re insinuating about me, and frankly I don’t care.

Have a good one.

[deleted] on 17 Nov 2023 21:52 next collapse

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satans_crackpipe@lemmy.world on 18 Nov 2023 05:28 next collapse

My what extensions? Isn’t that the keylogger and network compute software with perfunctory ad delivery features?

HurlingDurling@lemm.ee on 18 Nov 2023 11:51 next collapse

Running winget install firefox should fix that problem for windows users

EDIT: Fuck off autocorrect

slowroll@r.nf on 18 Nov 2023 14:04 collapse

“winget”

01adrianrdgz@lemmy.world on 18 Nov 2023 13:32 next collapse

will it affect Linux Chrome too?? Oh no!!

4z01235@lemmy.world on 18 Nov 2023 13:46 collapse

Yes

01adrianrdgz@lemmy.world on 18 Nov 2023 13:55 collapse

ok thank you!! I will update my extensions then.

0x2d@lemmy.ml on 18 Nov 2023 14:27 collapse

How will vivaldi and ungoogled-chromium be affected by these changes

Aurix@lemmy.world on 18 Nov 2023 19:22 collapse