this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2024
288 points (95.9% liked)

Technology

59534 readers
3195 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
L3s@fry.gs
L4s@fry.gs
L4s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
288
Here's what's happening to ad blockers in Google Chrome (and other browsers) (www.spacebar.news)
submitted 5 months ago by corbin@infosec.pub to c/technology@lemmy.world
90 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Sparky@lemmy.blahaj.zone 141 points 5 months ago (6 children)

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/windows/

[–] 555@lemmy.world 96 points 5 months ago (3 children)
[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 53 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Eh, on Linux, it's probably in your package manager, and likely already installed. Just be careful with Ubuntu since they use snaps.

[–] 555@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Be careful?

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 27 points 5 months ago

Firefox auto-updates with the snap version, whereas it doesn't with most package manager versions. So if it updates while you're using it, it won't let you open new tabs without restarting it (Firefox, not the machine), which can interrupt your workflow. On other distros, that only happens when installing updates manually, which isn't an issue because you're aware of it.

This is second hand info though since I don't use Ubuntu, so YMMV.

[–] Veraxus@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Nonsense like this is why I no longer use Ubuntu (or anything else downstream of Canonical, or anything with Snaps).

[–] PoolloverNathan@programming.dev 4 points 5 months ago

nix run nixpkgs#firefox

[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

www.waterfox.com

A really good chrome clone using Firefox. It's my go-to browser.

Only issue is that it's a little slower to update than Firefox direct.

[–] skybox@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

https://floorp.app/ Been lovin this fork solely because the vertical tab bar integration is awesome.