About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported"
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This is the community-maintained issue tracker for uBlock Origin - uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues

~~https://www.neowin.net/news/ublock-origin-developer-recommends-switching-to-ublock-lite-as-chrome-flags-the-extension/~~

EDIT: Apologies. Updated with a link to what gorhill REALLY said:

Manifest v2 uBO will not be automatically replaced by Manifest v3 uBOL[ight]. uBOL is too different from uBO for it to silently replace uBO – you will have to explicitly make a choice as to which extension should replace uBO according to your own prerogatives.

Ultimately whether uBOL is an acceptable alternative to uBO is up to you, it’s not a choice that will be made for you.

Will development of uBO continue? Yes, there are other browsers which are not deprecating Manifest v2, e.g. Firefox.

  • xavier666@lemm.eeEnglish
    6·
    3 months ago

    Those are jumping to Librewolf from Firefox, keep the following things in mind

    • It’s a privacy first, usability second browser
    • It’s not a browser for your grandparents. You have you take some steps to give it the same functionality as Firefox
    • Good news is it removes a lot of Mozilla cruft
    • Browser fingerprinting, which allows websites to recognize an individual user, is disabled on this browser. This feature greatly enhances privacy.
    • But it means it will ‘slightly’ break some websites. Nothing very serious but certain QoL features will be missing at first. Eg. When downloading a software, it can’t determine which OS you are using.
    • You can enable browser fingerprinting and get those QoL features back.

    Hope you have a good experience on Librewolf. I’ve been using it for the past 1 year and it’s fine.