• CalicoJack@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          11 months ago

          It’s just Chromium with a layer of Microsoft on top. It’ll have the same extension issues from Manifest v3 that mainline Chrome does.

        • Free Palestine 🇵🇸@sh.itjust.works
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          11 months ago

          It’s literally corporate spyware made by Microsoft, one of the shittiest companies in history. It also uses the Chromium rendering engine under the hood, meaning you also support Google’s monopoly. It’s the worst browser choice you can make. (besides maybe Opera or shit like that)

          Firefox and LibreWolf are the only good browsers that don’t support Google’s monopoly on browser rendering engines and give you the freedom to block ads

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      11 months ago

      Won’t Edge and all Chromium-based browsers end up with Manifest v3 and no v2? Will extension devs continue to support v2 in Firefox?

      • AProfessional@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        Brave claims they will maintain it in their fork but that won’t last long.

        Developers don’t need to keep mv2 support, Firefox supports mv3 plus extra APIs on top.

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          11 months ago

          And keeping the v2 (or v3+WebRequest) support in the browser is not enough, they’d also have to start running their own extension store since presumably the Chrome one will no longer carry such extensions.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Yes it does still exist. It came preinstalled with the ThinkPad I set up for my daughter yesterday. That’s why I immediately installed Firefox and made it the default browser instead.

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        11 months ago

        Yep, Firefox Nightly is my daily driver. I use Edge Canary for sites that don’t work on Firefox, such as the Snapchat web client.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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          11 months ago

          I wish I could run Linux on it, but it’s for her online school next semester and they specified either Mac or Windows. I’m guessing there’s a proprietary software situation. Honestly though, she’s so inexperienced with Windows (her previous school notebook was a Chromebook issued by the school) that I don’t think she’s ready for Linux. She screwed things up just playing with system sounds and I had to rescue her.

          • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world
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            11 months ago

            Ah, yeah. That makes sense. But at least you’re there to fix it all; many of us learned by breaking things. Repeatedly, lol.

            • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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              11 months ago

              Oh yeah, I messed up plenty of stuff. And I’m sure she will too. Just not ‘repeating the same wav forever’ stuff.