I hate that the source article title has a comma splice, and rules say we have to perpetuate that.
this post was submitted on 14 Jul 2025
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Just fucking switch
Or like, just switch already?
Eh.
After years and years of Chrome I just up and switched on Friday when they finally pulled the plug.
No regrets. No waving from the stern of the ship as I sail away from Chromeland.
If they choose to take away a valuable tool I consider necessary for browsing the web, then I have no loyalty to them and can easily move on. Took all of 10 seconds to import my shit into Firefox and be on my way.
Bye, Chrome. Thanks for being useful, until you weren't.
I'm struggling with the concept of people putting effort into using uBlock Origin with Chrome.
I have to use Chrome to access a couple of sites that don't play nice with Firefox.
I have to use Chrome to access a couple of sites that don't play nice with Firefox.
I bet those sites will play nice if you switch your user-agent to display as chrome.
If they don't play nice then fuck em
Doesnt always work like that.
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I'm honestly looking for an answer for my specific use case and unfortunately no other browser seems to be able to do this (I last looked into this in earnest near the beginning of the year). I am a consultant and work on multiple customers systems (web based system) all of which use a common single sign in provider. Unfortunately this means that in a single browser session, I can only be logged into one customer at one time. Yes, I know I can use multiple browsers but I sometimes touch 10 different systems in a day and need to switch between them easily and quicly. Yes, I know I can do this in Firefox but Firefox doesn't break each sandboxed session into it's own container with its own customized icon in the taskbar within windows.
With chrome I can create as many local profiles as I want, one for each of my customers and each with their own unique icons. Each profile has its own add-ons, caches etc. and I can quickly switch back and forth between them visually from the taskbar.
I do not want to continue having to using Chrome so if someone has a solution that gives me chrome profiles without the google, I would love that so much.
Firefox has a new profiles experience in v138 and up. Each can have its own extensions and settings. If you've got more than one you can switch in the taskbar. The only thing you might be missing is using multiple profiles at once?
I use Firefox on everything EXCEPT my Steam Deck. Firefox will not let you open the dropdown menu to exit, make videos fullscreen etc. And when a notification pops up, your firefox is now 100 by 30 pixels...
I wish they would fix it already...
I can use firefox in desktop mode but i don't like having to switch to desktop mode and wait for everything. Then switch back to play something.
People are weird. Just use Linux! /s
No /s
Alternatively, you could use a browser instead of an advertisement delivery app.
Just user Firefox lol
Show me "Not use Chrome"!
BZZZT
Lots of comments in here saying to just use Firefox, and they're entirely correct, but the one use case for articles like this I could think of is where you are forced to use Chrome at work but can still install extensions.
you can enable ublock in chrome by downloading firefox from chrome, installing it, then installing ublock in firefox and finally removing chrome
People will do anything, but use Firefox
I don’t think that comma belongs there
, Yeah I don't, think so either,.
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Use librewolf or fennec (Firefox forks)
IronFox for LibreWolf fans on Android.
I used ironfox too, just a lot of website functionality was broken using it. (At least for me and this was months ago). Settled on fennec.
I main ironfox and use a base version of firefox for the occasional websites that break.
Been using it with uBlock Origin in medium mode which breaks even more sites and I don't have much trouble with broken sites.
For the occasional website that just refuses to work, I use Cromite.
This, of course, will depend on the sites you use as well so YMMV.
Let it go bro. Just switch to Firefox & co. Or at least use it less for something that does not require ad-blocking.
As they note in the article, this is a temporary measure, I.E. guaranteed to break soon.
Start switching to Firefox now so you're done when they finally turn it of. Ignore any other Chromium based browsers, it's unlikely they have the manpower to extend MV2 beyond what Google supports with their LTS releases.
Completely anecdotally, but I've noticed that in the last few months, ublock origin installs on the Mozilla addons site has gone up. So i think people are already moving.
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I hate chrome with a passion and it really sucks that Firefox isn't as convenient for profiles, a feature I rely heavily on, although, I'm still switching. fuck ads and fuck data harvesting, I'd rather have a slightly less performant browser than be visually assaulted and have my performance tank.
I mean there is always floorp which has better profiles
Haven't heard of that one before, it's pretty interesting from first impressions though. I'll try it out tomorrow and see how it goes. Thanks!
Ubo lite seems to work just fine for my needs, which is blocking yt ads. Everything else vivaldi or adguard catches
Yeah all you have to do is circumvent the security settings in your browser and suppress warning messages to enable Manifest 2, all in 8 easy steps (written as if it's 6 steps to make it seem less onerous). For now. Until Google switches it off completely.
Or, drop Chrome and Chromium based browsers (such as Edge, Vivaldi, Brave etc) in one easy step. Install a privacy respecting Firefox based browser like Firefox itself or Librewolf.
all you have to do is circumvent the security settings in your browser and suppress warning messages
I think this is a very important point that too few people are raising and it's getting buried under the spam of "switch to Firefox" messages. Yes, switching to Firefox is an option. But clearly some people don't want to do it, and we give them these workarounds without saying what they really do and without highlighting that they are potentially dangerous. You use your browser for a large part of your interaction with your computer, so any downgrade in security is going to be significant. To me, the short-term implications of this are far more important than the longstanding Chrome-vs-Firefox discussion.
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Aaand, why bother?
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