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Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Microsoft Edge, Opera to follow
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Basically everyone who's not a techy person (unless their PC was set up by someone who is I suppose).
Any PC I assist with has FF/UBO when I walk away. Now I have to strip out the AI shit too. So maybe I walk away with Waterfox on there now. Librewolf is too much for the average folk.
Tip: if you install Firefox from scratch frequently, you should build a custom
user.jswhere you disable all the stuff you don't like, and then just drop the file in the profile directory with a script, instead of manually going through all the settings pages each time.Not having tried either, could you please summarize the differences?
Simply put, you can wratchet down the security settings on FF manually, or use a fork that has done that for you. Waterfox is preset with pretty decent settings and Librewolf dials it to max protect. It’s a bit of work to relax it and that’d frustrate an average user. Waterfox is a fair compromise.
That's not completely true. I've had a fling with Vivaldi for a long time, but only for casual browsing on bookmarked sites I visit regularly (think forums, etc), but for anything serious, it's obviously Firefox only.
I always liked Vivaldi a lot, but I guess it's about breakup time. It's a damn fucking shame.
You'd be hard pressed to find someone who thinks I'm not a "techy" person either, considering I've been building machines since the early pentium era.
For posterity, I can mention that Opera and then Vivaldi were the first two "not IE" browsers I ever switched to for myself. Got in some trouble as my parents thought that "I had deleted the Internet" (their exact words..).
Those were the days, heh.
Yeah and to be fair my main browser is Zen but I still have chrome and edge because I work on websites and need to make sure things work OK, they're just not used for much else.