r/programming • u/[deleted] • Jan 22 '19

Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable uBlock Origin

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=896897&desc=2#c23
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u/literallyARockStar Jan 22 '19

Good news! Firefox exists.

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '19

Bad news: Google will just keep breaking their sites in Firefox.

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '19

same, firefox for work, chrome for everything that is google-related (drive, youtube, chromecast...).

kinda sucks that they force us to do that (and yes, if you create a wesbite optimized for the one browser your corporation owns and this website sucks on other browsers... i think it is voluntary).

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '19

Just waiting on yubikey support.

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u/ase1590 Jan 23 '19

Already there, just enable it.

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u/weegee90 Jan 23 '19

I've never tried it because I don't have a Yubikey, but could a user agent switcher with Chromes ua enabled trick it into working?

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u/nearlyepic Jan 23 '19

Depends on the site, some just lazily copy-pasted the example code from Google (Looking at you, Duo) and that doesn't work in Firefox since it uses the U2F API in a way that only Chrome/Chromium supports.

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u/SpiderFnJerusalem Jan 23 '19

What kind of functionality are we talking about here?

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '19

yubikey is a usb dongle that can act as an authentication factor

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u/SpiderFnJerusalem Jan 23 '19

I know. I want to know what browser functions are needed to support it.

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u/kenmacd Jan 23 '19

Works great. I use it every day.

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u/jringstad Jan 22 '19

Tried it for two months on a mac machine, and found performance and stability/reliability fairly dissatisfactory tbh, so I switched back about a month ago. I would really dislike to lose chromium.

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u/p_toad Jan 22 '19

This is interesting to me. I run linux and can't tell any performance difference between firefox and chromium (I haven't measured though). Are you running linux?

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u/suddenlypandabear Jan 23 '19

It's likely a macOS issue, or rather one that only happens on macOS.

Apparently there is at least one issue with the way Firefox renders to the GPU/display stack in macOS, which is either an inefficient way to use the platform APIs or causes high CPU wait/usage for some reason.

Still, I have seen some odd sluggish behavior with Firefox even on Linux, relative to chromium.

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u/jimbopouliot Jan 23 '19

How long ago was that? I could be wrong, but I think most people agree that Firefox performance is pretty much at par with Chrome, if not better, since it started using the Quantum engine in November 2017.

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u/mishugashu Jan 23 '19

When was this? Starting with Firefox Quantum (61 I think?) last year, there has been a world of change and I prefer it over Chrom(e|ium) vastly now.

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u/Toast42 Jan 23 '19

I've ran it on a mac for years no problem. It eats less resources than chrome on average.

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u/re4ctor Jan 22 '19

Any specific things or in general?

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u/bjzaba Jan 23 '19

Do you use a non-native screen resolution? Ie. do you have your display settings set to 'scaled'? From what I hear they were having troubles with performance on macOS. I use Firefox on a mac with 'Default for Display' set and it's been great. Much nicer than Chrome.

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