Finally migrated back to Firefox today after a multi year user of Chrome.
What pushed me over the edge? Most of my app icons (keep, pulse, calender, whatsapp) stopped opening in their own windows again.
I had to install the PWA extension in Firefox to get that working again, and it’s going to be a slight hassle having to copy and paste URLs from all those windows, but I’m tired of fixing the task bar icons.
Could’ve gone to Edge since it would work out of the box, but I like Firefox. (except for no native PWA support.)
Edit: found I can right click links in the PWA instances and use the send to other device option to open them in my main Firefox window.
I did the same a while back. Youtube with ublock origin is awesome!
Genuinely curious, and I intend to switch back in the near future, but I’ve also been using chrome for years now with uBlock and YouTube has remained ad-less to this day. Has something changed recently?
Not really, but there are plans in that direction with Manifest V3
I would block Google on dns level at home if my kid and partner didn’t use it for work. Google is so shitty.
Right, but wouldn’t that mean Firefox+uBlock would also stop working for YouTube as well?
No, that’s a different thing. Google can’t do anything about what kind of extensions Firefox allows.
They could however still block people from using adblockers on YouTube, and unfortunately it appears that they are experimenting with that as well.
And then there’s that whole Web Integrity API thing as well.
What a time to be alive eh?
Yeah, haha, the days of monopolistic companies taking away your options and forcing you into a paid pigeon hole. We’re sliding down the slope and picking up speed.
Ha, yes that’s what I was concerned about. FF still definitely a better option. Thanks for the explanation!