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Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin (www.pcworld.com)
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Firefox says it will keep supporting uBlock Origin even as Microsoft Edge and other Chromium browsers phase it out under Manifest V3.

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[–] Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (4 children)

LibreWolf, WaterFox and Vivaldi

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

vivaldi recently disabled uBO and said it’d soon be unsupported. you can re-enable for now

[–] charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I was using vivaldi and they were kind enough(seriously) to inform me that they don't support ublock anymore maybe a week ago.

Not sure about the reason but I think that it's a technical thing the Google changed to deliberately make it easy to end ublock on a lot of browsers. Might not be the only reason(actual tech upgrades) but I believe it's part of the reason since major conspiracies seem much more likely these days.

Anyway, I switched back to Librewolf even though it can't play x.265 files (jellyfin). Anything that kills the use of ublock is dead to me even though they have their own shitty, bullshit blocking solution. It's never going to be as good as ublock edit grammar and shit

[–] im_fine_sandy@nord.pub 4 points 1 day ago

It's not a conspiracy. It's been a very well published and discussed process.

There are exceptions but browsers are either reconfigurations of firefox, like librewolf, or reconfigurations of google chrome, like vivaldi.

Some dweeb will be along in a moment to tell us all how vivaldi is not merely a reconfiguration, but the point is ...

google changed the manner in which plugins can interact with the web page you see. In recent months you could re-enable the old plugin interface by recompiling with a different configuration, but once google makes a change that breaks that old interface then you can't just re-enable it.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Anyway, I switched back to Librewolf even though it can't play x.265 files (jellyfin).

you should check that again, Firefox gained support for it last year.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Media/Guides/Formats/Video_codecs#hevc_h.265

check the browser compatibility column in the table. it seems maybe Firefox is the only one supporting it even for those without hardware acceleration?

[–] charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Admittedly, I haven't tried too hard to get it working in any of the FF browsers lately...my unraid server blew up and it was handling hardware acceleration with a cheap intel vid card. I haven't felt like messing with until now so I'll give it a shot. Thanks for the info

edit: no transcoding when l tried an x.265 in regular firefox. sweet

[–] Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I didn't know that, well glad I went to LibreWolf.

[–] huey_m@piefed.social 7 points 1 day ago

Zen, though I think that's basically Firefox under the hood.

[–] wallabra@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

...may you elaborate?

[–] Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

LibreWolf has it pre-installed and is Open-source. It worked on waterfox an Open-source fork of Firefox, last time I tried.

As for Vivaldi I guess use Brave instead.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Brave is the money generator of a far right hate group. Fuck Brendan Eich, fuck their ad replacement scam, fuck everything Brave.

[–] Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Really!!??!? I had no clue!!!!!

I just got back into being into the open source life after going back to Ubuntu after almost 20 years later. I stopped using Ubuntu in 2009 when Pigeon was an aio instant messenger client.