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Great, now cover over why you rolled over for manifest v2 shitcanning. YOU WERE MY CHOSEN ONE VIVALDI , I NEED A CHROME BACKUP
Basically they don't have the manpower to maintain a whole Chromium fork that still supports manifest v2. Even if they kept it in for a while, every upstream change might break things on their end.
It sucks and it's the main reason why I recently switched from Vivaldi to Floorp, at least on some of my machines. Vivaldi's ad blocker just isn't comparable to uBlock Origin.
How is Floorp?
That's not hard to explain: it would require a ton of resources to maintain a fork with manifest v2, for a small usecase. Vivaldi is a small company compared to say Mozilla.
Plus the main usecase for v2, ad blockers, is already covered by their built in one.
Yup Vivaldi + ublock origin is still perfect for any web browsing. I'm remarkably surprised I still don't get YouTube ads.
Vivaldi is a proprietary Chromium reskin. Use Librewolf.
Librawolf is simply firefox and I do, but there are things that need chrome. I need both of them for certain things.
IMO Librewolf ain’t simply Firefox, and I don’t think folks would say this if they gave Librewolf a chance. A lot of the corporate cruft/AI-adjacent stuff is removed, it’s not just a reskin with adblock. It’s a holistically better browser experience.
Edit: removed unintentional double negative
I'm running Libre, it's my main, but can't use my webflashers, the support in google meet, sound and screen sharing is crap.
It's not a simple thing that I like chrome. A great deal of crap i need for work demands it.
And then I end up on Brave because I'm running a bunch of Manifest V2 plugins.
Also, firefox can't seem to get anti-fingerprinting right. Noone wants to be ready to lie and randomize data but brave.
I simply want to stop using brave as my second browser, I don't even want it installed, but I'm stuck with it.
Funny you say that because some sites just don't work in librewolf, which is because it is protecting you, but still adds to friction.
For things that specifically need a Chromium-based browser, like WebUSB, I use ungoogled-chromium.
Ungoogle-chromium still has manifestV2?
No. Ungoogled-chromium is literally just Chromium with the Google shit stripped out. If you want manifest v2, use something based on Firefox, like Librewolf.
yeah already main Libre, but that does nothing for me when I need webUSB webSerial or to use google meet sharing.
I just keep two browsers around for different purposes.
That's what I do, but I don't want brave to be one of them :)
I think you'll find what you need in either Brave or Helium, or both.
Brave does what I need. I just really fucking hate those people. Last time I tried Helium i had to abandon, but fuck if I can remember why.