An explanation of Manifest V3, why it matters, and what uBlock Origin is doing about it.
    • teft@startrek.websiteEnglish
      1121·
      11 months ago

      Switching to what? Firefox. I don’t see the problem here. Install Firefox and forget those monopolistic enshitifying fucks.

      • Aceticon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        11 months ago

        I went from Netscape to Mozzila and from Mozilla to Firefox and, guess what… my browser never fucked me up in the name of maximizing corporate profits.

        Google was already a wholly untrustworth Ad Company With A Tech Arm back when they invented Chrome, and shit like this was already back then a question of WHEN, not IF.

      • Teknikal@lemm.eeEnglish
        23·
        11 months ago

        My recommendation is librefox and if you really want a chrome based alternative I’d suggest Thorium (although I don’t know what thorium will do when this is implemented I’m hoping they don’t follow it.)

    • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.worldEnglish
      361·
      11 months ago

      For anyone interested, as of November 2023:

      Web browsers using Gecko (Firefox’s engine): GNU IceCat, Waterfox, K-Meleon, Lunascape, Portable Firefox, Conkeror, Classilla, TenFourFox. Edit: and Fennec

      Web browsers using the Goanna engine (which is a fork of Gecko): Pale Moon, Basilisk.

      Flow is a web browser with its own proprietary browser engine.

      The other active engines listed are: WebKit (Apple’s engine), and Blink (Google’s engine, which they forked off of WebKit, and which is used for Chrome, Chromium, and countless other browsers).

      • Dojan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        11 months ago

        I’d no idea there’s a browser called Conkeror. That’s prertty funny since WebKit was based off of KHTML used in KDE’s Konqueror browser.

      • wildginger@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
        5·
        11 months ago

        I use firefox, but Id never head of these alternatives.

        Anyone who does have reviews? Pros, cons, reasons to use them beside variety?

        • krakenx@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          11 months ago

          Pale Moon still supports the even older extension model. I used it briefly until my extensions got updated to the newer format. I still kinda miss the old theme engine.

      • Blorper59@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        I thought it was pronounced Kay Melly-on, so I never tried it because of the silly name.

        Pihole will be unaffected.