Neither Safari nor DuckDuckGo—the two other major non-Chromium browsers out there—support uBlock Origin.
DDG’s browser is using webview, meaning it uses chrome on Windows/Android. Also not what I would consider a major browser.
Even if Firefox drops support, it’s doubtful that many of its major forks will drop support.
For those who want to use something other than a Firefox fork, there are some options.
- Brave has built in ad blocking, but you need to disable a lot of their crap. There are scripts out there that can do it quickly.
- Helium is in beta, but it bundles uBO.
- Orion is currently only available for macOS, but it has a beta for for Linux available. It can install extensions from both Chrome and Firefox.
Brave Origin on Linux is free, it’s the one that has the extra garbage ripped out. I don’t like braves practices but as a security person I really do admire how Brave Shields functions. Graphene said they were interested in lifting shields off of brave to put in vanadium but it currently wasn’t a top priority.
Why would firefox drop UBO support?
I’m not sure I can internet without ubo’s element zapper
major browser? you guys are such optimists.
You consider Firefox being a niche browser?
I think Firefox has about a 3% market share. It’s wild.
By which metric? Also if we go about market share, then none of the alternatives are “major” browsers. Firefox is one of the few major browsers that on the market, that is relevant. Major in the sense like the Top 4 browsers or so.
A childishly simplistic one. I grabbed that number from Wikipedia. I find Firefox so much better than chrome or edge, I can’t believe some metric puts some order of magnitude around 3%. Triple it to 9%, and if still wish for better.
There’s only 3-4 browser platforms chromium, safari, and Firefox which might be better said as gecko and web-kit. Ladybird and Orion are trying to enter this market with something new.
*this information is probably close to right but I didn’t double check it first.
Chrome and edge are basically the same now.
I don’t understand what you are saying. Linux also had only a few percentage “market share” (say users), but it was and still is one of the few major operating systems. And that’s the point. Its not always about the market share. The article that is linked here is not talking about market share, but about available common options that is viable.
I think that Linux has such large market share in the enterprise especially REHL. That’s why it has really solid support.
Also why I think Linux mobile isn’t taking off as quickly because enterprise use iOS for most of their mobile systems.
Don’t forget about Servo!
FireWHAT? Have they introduced the year of firefox for the web already?
What do you mean?
I am celebrating my fourth year chromium-free, not that long but it’s better late than never. And now I just can’t resist installing firefox with ublock urigin in any laptop or phone that gets into my hands😁.
Peace be with you, folks.
I really hope Firefox keeps its promise and doesn’t remove uBlock. This browser is built on Gecko, it stands on its own, and it should act like it, too. To hell with Google and Bing.
