The day Firefox drops MV2 is the day I find a new browser. We're already at <1% usershare, it's not like there's safety in numbers here

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pogue 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I'd be genuinely curious what you could switch to that still has MV2 because, AFAIK, Firefox is the last holdout.

Brave still allows you to install uBlock & some other extensions that should technically not be supported under MV3, but they still ship it with support for those.

Just heard about Helium browser, which is just dechromium + uBlock and it's still beta.

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nuker an hour ago | parent | next [-]

> Firefox is the last holdout.

Nope, FF is being infiltrated by adtech for last year or two. Last holdout is Safari now :)

	▲	rs_rs_rs_rs_rs 4 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		>Last holdout is Safari now Why do people say crap like this... Safari was the first browser to completely remove mv2. From all the major browsers Safari has the worse adblocking experience and support for adblocking extensions...

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cookiengineer 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> I'd be genuinely curious what you could switch to that still has MV2 because, AFAIK, Firefox is the last holdout.

My last hope is ladybird right now, I don't use Firefox or Chrome as my main browsers anymore, and use them only within temporary sandboxes. Without history, without cookies, without logins for the most part.

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el_io 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Ladybird supports MV2? I had no idea they have extensions.

	▲	laserbeam an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Ladybird is many years away from being usable by a casual human. The hope is it turns out to be a great browser eventually.

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pogue 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You use ladybird as your primary web browser? And it works?

	▲	cookiengineer an hour ago \| parent [-]
		For the most part, it doesn't. It's not a consumer ready browser, but a pretty nice little rendering engine. If you use ladybird as bindings, it's a bit unstable right now because they are refactoring a lot of parts in the codebase. I built my own tools on top of it, mostly to use internet websites and selfhosted kiwix archives with my local agentic env. I guess what I am saying is that I don't have a primary browser anymore. Not a browser where I just can trust it that it doesn't do shit with my data. Being able to selfhost kiwix is a superb internet experience if you build your own search dashboard for it, I can fully recommend it. Have to merge my things upstream with ZIMdex when I have the time (probably around June). [1] WIP https://github.com/cookiengineer/exocomp [2] WIP https://github.com/cookiengineer/zimdex