People forget that the next step of Google will be the inconvenience. Meaning they'll make Firefox work badly on YouTube and other google websites. Have a video not play here, bad css layout there. Subtle stuff that will make people hate to use Firefox and because Google is dictating the Web standards, they will do so, in fact they actually already do. I've already had a few websites using some kind of PWA framework, that was horribly slow on Firefox compared to Chromium based browser.
Title is misleading. Manifest V2 will be disabled starting in June 2024 for new versions of Chrome. uBlock Origin will only be disabled if they cannot update to Manifest V3.
There is an implication that Manifest V3 is designed to prevent ad blocking, but if you actually click through the links and read the articles, you'll find:
Improving content filtering support by providing more generous limits in the declarativeNetRequest API for static rulesets and dynamic rules
I'm no adblocking expert, and maybe this won't be enough for adblocking to fully work, but it's sounding like it will be, since they conferenced with adblock devs to decide.
Feel free to contradict me, especially if you have evidence. Though I would not appreciate getting downvoted and yelled at for the sole reason of not taking headlines at face value just because they say Google is evil.
Manifest v3 is designed to make ad-blocking much harder. First off the filter lists will be distributed as part of the extension itself, which means that updates will be much less frequent (review can take multiple days, even multiple weeks) and certain types of blocking (e.g. YouTube ad blocking) will be completely impossible.
This gives ad networks a big leg up - they can either use techniques like Google does for YouTube ads to circumvent your ad blocker, or rotate domains etc. fast enough that extension updates are too slow.
It works with virtually everything. If, for some reason it doesn't, use Edge or something for that single website. No more YouTube ads, no account, just a browser.
I just want to be able to drag a tab straight into a snap zone with Firefox (like can be done w chromium browsers). Instead I have to drag the tab out, then click the new window and drag that where I want. And with the frequency of tab shuffling I do, even this minor inconvenience is pretty annoying. Oh, and it’s been in the bug tracker/feature request for 15 years.
I’m taking a shot at fixing it myself but this is not my forte.
I can understand wanting that feature but I also get deprioritizing it. I feel like I shuffle tabs and windows quite a bit as I have multiple monitors, and even I have rarely even thought about that as a lacking feature (I have indeed noticed it). It's just one extra drag, takes half a second.
Ever since the early days of Google excitement (early naughties), everyone missed the point. You don’t need a big corporation with good intentions to save you. They’ll sooner round on you when it suits them simply because they can.
Everyone excitedly using and in turn relying on Gmail and Google maps like they were healing the tech world simply let the vampire into their home. We need sustainable systems and cultures with values and no “too big to fail” monopolistic companies dictating the landscape.