It's such a pain when you want to do something that is easily possible but manifest v3 won't allow it... like having an internal extension that references remote content...
greatgib · 4h ago
This shows how much Brave pretends to be an independant browser but is basically just chrome. Looking at how hard it is to just preserve the features that are requested by users.
crop_rotation · 3h ago
That's a very uncharitable way to look at things. Brave obviously doesn't have enough resources to fork chromium (even the multi trillion dollar M$FT didn't have and had to fork Chromium), but they definitely provide the best mobile browser by far.
ajdude · 55m ago
When I used Firefox on android it ran fine for me and supported ublock origin. Now I use Orion on iOS and it even supports sponsorblock on YouTube.
I consider every browser using chromium as a backend -- especially those that started with another backend and then switch to chromium -- as a traitor to the Internet.
They have no standing especially if they purport to care about things like privacy.
theultdev · 1h ago
Adblocking is built in. That's really all I care about as a brave user.
lousken · 3h ago
it would be nice if they joined other chromium forks in the battle and created a v2 store
ggm · 5h ago
> While Brave will continue to offer limited support for MV2 extensions, the real solution is to use Brave’s industry-leading, native features. All are available by simply downloading the Brave browser.
Look I get it. This is all they can say. But it's frankly disingenuous. What about the browser extensions they don't and probably never will incorporate, like the tools to use archive sites?
It's reductive to "only run the things we wrote directly"
Dylan16807 · 4h ago
Does that need v2? My impression was the list of things missing in v3 was not very long, it's just that altering requests was an important one.
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catlikesshrimp · 2h ago
Don't panic until the last Firefox ESR to support MV2 expires.
You can panic then, powerusers.
5- · 2h ago
firefox continues to support mv2 alongside mv3 and has no plans to the contrary as far as i know.
I consider every browser using chromium as a backend -- especially those that started with another backend and then switch to chromium -- as a traitor to the Internet.
They have no standing especially if they purport to care about things like privacy.
Look I get it. This is all they can say. But it's frankly disingenuous. What about the browser extensions they don't and probably never will incorporate, like the tools to use archive sites?
It's reductive to "only run the things we wrote directly"
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You can panic then, powerusers.