As Mozilla moves into advertising and AI, I wonder how long their position on Manifest v3 will last…
Indeed. And Mozilla never clearly say how long they’ll support Manifest V2. The blog reads like typical corporate wording.
Where do you think most of the current income comes from?
If Mozilla drops Manifest v2 I might as well switch to a chrome variant (not brave).
I don’t want a web monoculture but it might as well be if Mozilla just copies chrome at every step.
Reading this article makes it seem like they are doubling down on not dropping MV2, and instead maintaining both manifest versions so that they can retain maximum compatibility and options for the user.
Not supporting MV3 at all would likely hurt them a lot in the long run, and adding support for it to the existing MV2 only opens up more options for addon devs.
Gave me a heart attack with Mozilla and manifest v3 in the same subject
That’s a relief.
including new AI functionality
Yeah, more bullshit! I use Firefox because it’s the only one with uBlock Origin.
We’ll keep you updated on what’s next for extensions in Firefox
They may be lying as usual which means I have to be proactive and find a future browser. It’s sad that I can’t trust Firefox anymore.
It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy if even a post explicitly stating that everything uBO needs to function correctly will keep being supported, is interpreted as the exact opposite “because they may be lying”. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
Can’t use Chrome, can’t use Firefox. The only sane choice left is Safari. Is Apple the better alternative now?
Edit: don’t be mistaken. I’m still using Firefox and have no plans to switch.
You definitely can still use Firefox. They haven’t added any AI nonsense beyond local translations and local image descriptions for accessibility. The article posted here is about how they’re not removing MV2 support, so uBO still works on Firefox. Since Firefox is open source, I guarantee that the moment they try to change that there’ll be a fork.
Stick with a Gecko browser to keep the market share up.
What’s the way forward for Chromium-based browsers? I use Edge instead of Chrome for my work (Firefox for everything else) to keep data out of Google’s clutches since we use so many Google services. Since I use uBlock Origin on both I’m concerned Edge will follow the leader and take it away.
To stop using them.
“What’s the way forward for coal-fired steam trains?”
There’s an MV3 version of uBlock Origin, but it’s kind of sparse. I switched to Adguard and it works just fine.
Called uBlock Lite for a reason.
I’ve seen some occasional mentions of Cromite as an option for Chromium but not Chrome, so may be worth looking into. If open source isn’t a key detail, Vivaldi may also be worth considering.
Its nice they are keeping compatibility with version 2 but I feel its about forking time for an alternative.
I’ve already been on Waterfox for years, personally.
waterfox does not use manifest?
why not just not introduce the changes that do nothing but break ad blockers?
That’s literally what the post says is happening?
