• Shatpoz1288@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      The more people use Firefox, the more web devs will be forced to ensure their website works on Firefox.

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      Have you reported issues for them? It’s in the menu somewhere. If Mozilla get a lot of reports for particular sites, they reach out to the webmaster and try to work with them to improve Firefox support - usually by removing proprietary Chrome-only features or by removing reliance on Chrome bugs that don’t exist in Firefox.

      You can also report the issue at https://webcompat.com/, just search to see if it’s already been reported first.

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      I’m showing my age, but back when IE was basically the only browser and Firefox (Firebird back then) launched, people often lamented that things didn’t work in Firefox. The solution? People used Firefox and web developers were forced to make their shit work in Firefox. When Chrome came out, suddenly we had three real options and the way to make everything work? Open Standards.

      Now, Chrome is in the position IE was back before Firefox came around. How ever will we make sure things work in Firefox??? Use Firefox. If enough people dump Google’s malware browser, the web has to go back to supporting multiple browsers through open standards.

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        3 months ago

        Thing is Google’s influence on Firefox is making it a worse company and browser as AI and privacy invading features take over.

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    3 months ago

    Adblockers are the largest consumer boycott in history.

    Google isn’t just disabling an extension, they’re attacking a boycott comprised of 200,000,000+ people, all around the globe, standing up to forced manipulation of our beliefs and habits by profit-hungry corporations.

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    I honestly can’t wait to see how this plays out. Only Chrome, chromium and edge in their pure forms have dedicated to doing this. Most of the Chrome forks have said they’re going to fork and keep it running. It’s certainly going to give Firefox a shot in the arm, but there’s no lack of other competition either.

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      3 months ago

      I don’t know how long the forks will be able to backport new features to their forked codebase.

      I think the only sensible solution is to just switch to Firefox.

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        Eventually Firefox will switch to V3 anyway so it’s kind of just delaying the inevitable.

        It sucks that this is the future of the Internet.

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          3 months ago

          Manifest v3 is already supported in Firefox (they must support it to keep the extension ecosystem alive), but they implemented it without the user-hostile restrictions.

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        3 months ago

        It is open source so not really a corporation’s product.

        They just maintain it, and the moment they screw up, a fork will take over from there.

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          Chromium (Google Chrome’s base) is also open source.

          And yet, we’re still at a corporation’s mercy as to whether everything Chromium-based gets ruined by Google’s fuck-what-the-users-want policies. Like with Manifest V3. And JXL support. And extensions on mobile.