this post was submitted on 11 Mar 2025
1407 points (99.4% liked)

Technology

65819 readers
4924 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
technopagan@lemmy.world
L4s@lemmy.world
1407
uBlock Origin is no longer available in the Chrome store (chromewebstore.google.com)
submitted 1 day ago by cantankerous_cashew@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
343 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] skitazd@lemm.ee 0 points 20 hours ago (5 children)

Switch to vivaldi

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

switch to firefox (or a fork of firefox like librewolf).

vivaldi just uses chrome's web store (there's a discussion on the forums to build their own extension store but no movement yet: https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/91160/vivaldi-s-own-extension-store/20)

[–] libra00@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago (4 children)

I didn't realize there were firefox forks, are any of them significantly better than firefox?

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

~~librefox~~librewolf is very good; it comes with ublock and various other privacy features pre-installed, i've been leaning toward them more just because they embraced mastodon more. mullvad also has one.

i typically go between firefox nightly and ~~librefox~~librewolf.

edit: oops mistyped the name, thanks @KumaSudosa@feddit.dk

[–] KumaSudosa@feddit.dk 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Is there actually a librefox too? I only know of Librewolf which I started using

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

oops, sorry! i'm an idiot and i miss typed! >_>

[–] KumaSudosa@feddit.dk 1 points 16 hours ago

No worries, happens to the best of us! I was also genuinely wondering if I missed another fork by that name

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 points 12 hours ago

waterfox, zen, "librewolf is just a rehashed version firefox, if you are looking for android version. you can look at ironfox for mobile.

[–] megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

I use librewolf just because it’s privacy focused.

But, there is also waterfox, floorp, and mercury, just off the top of my head.

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 1 points 17 hours ago

Zen is worth checking out. It isn't my favorite, but it's trying to do some cool stuff. It might eventually become my favorite once it becomes more stable.

Right now, I'm digging FireDragon. It has two sidebars: one vertical tab bar and one for gadgets. And the vertical tab bar collapses to icons when you aren't hovering over it.

[–] ovalofsand@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Waterfox runs nicely on pc. Still a little rough on android though

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 points 12 hours ago

i have ironfox on android.

[–] a_baby_duck@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Does Vivaldi not just use the Chrome store for extensions? Also, aren't they losing manifest V2 as soon as it's dropped from Chromium in a few more months?

[–] bokherif@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Not sure how Vivaldi uses extensions since you cannot add new ones from the chrome store, but if that happens we're gonna need to go to Firefox eventually. I currently love Vivaldi due to simplicity and the swipe up to open tabs page. Wish more browsers integrated that or just better & fluid animations

[–] whats_all_this_then@programming.dev 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Not sure how Vivaldi uses extensions since you cannot add new ones from the chrome store...

Extensions in Vivaldi come from the Chrome Web Store, not sure what you mean by this

[–] bokherif@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I'm using the mobile app which doesn't let you use extensions from the chrome store, if you guys are talking desktop, I might be wrong.

[–] whats_all_this_then@programming.dev 2 points 18 hours ago

Okay that makes way more sense then yeah. I don't know of a single chromium browser that supports extensions on mobile so unsurprising

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Any Chromium-based browser will be in the same boat sooner or later. None of them have the resources to continue to support v2 long-term, or to support their own extension stores.

At this point the only viable alternative is Firefox and its dirivatives.

[–] whats_all_this_then@programming.dev 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

I'm trying. I'm trying so hard. But it keeps pissing me off because I have to dig through settings to undo changes they made to browser features that are standard across both Firefox and Chrome. It's free and I'm not tryig to sound entitled but almost every single change they made to Chromium aside from the privacy stuff has me going WHYYYYYY?

The way they handle open in new tab, tlds like.internal, and ctrl+click to complete urls were the worst offenders off the top of my head.

Plus their ad blocker doesn't even come close to uBlock Lite.

I just want v8 in a hardened vanilla Firefox wrapper that doesn't go to the extremes that LibreWolf goes) :(

[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago

Also highly recommend waterfox if you still want the chrome aesthetic.