@J12t locking down the extension ecosystem is a good idea 🤷. Manifest 3 puts Chrome in line with what Apple pioneered with Safari extensions a few years back.

@J12t I like that Firefox has managed to both implement the next version of webextensions while also still giving adblockers the freedom to do what they need to do.

it feels weird to say but I hope this will finally cause the endless chrome forks pretending to be a 'new different browser' to stop, like even if they fork firefox that'd be an improvement at this point, but ideally we just get some proper diversification again

@J12t Because Firefox is almost unusable lately and there aren't many other options that don't lag way behind on security patches. It's extremely frustrating but I've been forced back onto it.

@J12t in response, I'll be limiting use of Google Chrome.

@J12t I use it for one site in particular that doesn’t work well in Safari (Roll20). If Roll20 could work reliably in another browser I’d likely not use Chrome very often at all. The one other useful use was for some encryption extensions for gmail (that also didn’t work in other browsers) but I haven’t had a need for those in a while.

The other main case where I can’t avoid it is on my son’s Chromebook which he needs for school.

@J12t several internal sites at my
Job will refuse to work if they don’t detect chrome

@J12t Thats nice. More ppl who will use FF or other Browsers :D

@J12t because they use google tools, and if you don't use chrome, google start giving you a shitty javascript, then people that don't use chrome has a shitty experience and think is the browser...

@J12t I’m not any kind of expert, but I find it easy to understand since some sites require Chrome.

@J12t because it used to be good and the user experience for most isn't bad enough to get them to switch, especially in a world where not everything works in Firefox because people have started treating Chrome like they treated IE6.