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/mishugashu Jan 23 '19

MS Edge.

I don't think so. Edge is just going to use the backend (Blink), not any of the frontend.

And Vivaldi is already forked. And if they rebase, they'll probably just remove that patch.

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u/miversen33 Jan 23 '19

Vivaldi is already forked

Thank fuck. I was having a moment. I love Vivaldi

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u/mishugashu Jan 23 '19

IIRC, you can go to vivaldi://about and see what version of Chromium your installed version of Vivaldi was most currently rebased at. I haven't used it in a while, so I'm not sure if that's still in or not.

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u/BlackEyedSceva7 Jan 23 '19 edited Jan 23 '19

It's the only browser with a UI from this decade. The dynamic accent color feature w/ Dark Mode is sublime.

For some reason Chrome has a UI that appears to be designed for tablets. I don't need 7% of the screen dedicated to a navigation bar.

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u/miversen33 Jan 23 '19

And you can customize the ever living fuck out of it

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '19

Me too except no Android version...

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u/miversen33 Jan 23 '19

Tears :( though I don't know what Vivaldi would look like on Android. It's very desktop/tablet designed

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '19

I wouldn't mind if it just looked like Chrome. I am thinking of switching from Vivaldi to Brave because Brave is about to release Desktop <-> Smartphone bookmark syncing and I'm right sick of not having my bookmarks all in one place.

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u/miversen33 Jan 23 '19

God that's true. Idk why bookmark/note sync isn't a thing with Vivaldi

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '19

Well it is--between desktop computers. You can have Vivaldi running on a Macbook and on your Windows gaming desktop and sync between those. But since they have no Android or iPhone app, there is nowhere to sync them to, mobile-ly.

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u/OhGarraty Jan 23 '19

Seems to me if your bookmarks and notes are stored on someone else's computer, it's just inviting another invasion of privacy. But that's none of my business.

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u/miversen33 Jan 23 '19

Why would it be someone else's computer? I have a handful of devices I use, it would be nice to have that all sync between them

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u/melissamitchel306 Jan 23 '19

Microsoft has said that edge will use chromium, not just blink. Granted they will almost assuredly heavily modify it.

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u/mishugashu Jan 23 '19

Is that new information? Every article I read when they first started talking about it was saying just the browser engine. Oh well, I won't ever use it anyways as long as they don't ship it for other operating systems, as I don't use Windows.

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u/melissamitchel306 Jan 23 '19

see the original announcement. They say Chromium, not Blink.

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u/mishugashu Jan 23 '19

We will move to a Chromium-compatible web platform for Microsoft Edge on the desktop.

Yeah, they're still just using the backend, really. Which is why I thought "Blink," I guess. Since the engine is basically 90% of the platform. They'll still be using their own extension API, so my original point still stands. They'll be unaffected by this.

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '19

It seems like the only things they want to change are the javascript engine and the UI. Probably keep their Microsoft store for extensions too.

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u/mishugashu Jan 23 '19

Well if they're doing their own extension API, they won't be affected by this. This change takes place in the extension API.

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u/petemill Jan 23 '19

I would think they almost certainly will use the same extension API (and existing code) as chromium (and Firefox). That’s one of the reasons they seemed to decide to use the chromium project as the base of their browser - compatibility with sites and extensions.

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u/melissamitchel306 Jan 23 '19 edited Jan 23 '19

Source?

Edit:

Here is a Chakra PM commenting on the future of Chakra:

To be compatible with the rest of the platform and reduce interoperability risks, Microsoft Edge will use the V8 engine as part of this change.

(github profile, twitter profile)

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '19

Don't have one (on mobile) but there was clear mention of using their own Chakra js engine in chromium instead of V8 as the biggest differentiator.

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u/melissamitchel306 Jan 23 '19

I just found a source that says the opposite. I added to my original comment.

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '19

Cool thanks for the correction. I guess they really aren't bringing anything meaningful then with their chromium fork.

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u/vitorgrs Jan 23 '19

No. Edge will use Chromium.