Thank You

[maxidorius]

trafficstars

This is simply my thank you for making this happen. I've seen Firefox getting worse and worse over time and while I always had to do stuff manually, you provided a fully built and ready-to-go version with so much more than I could ever have done.

Thank you for caring about privacy.

[intika]

Thank you a lot for your kind words, contribution and feedback it's really appreciated; Mozilla developer are doing an amazing job with the current version of Firefox this is what made me start this project in the first place, so big thanks to them for keeping Firefox alive and evolving... at first i was sad to see the discontinuation of legacy extensions but looking at this after all that time i think Firefox had to continue the evolution to fight big companies like Google (even if its a paradox when we know that most of the financial income of Mozilla are coming from Google). At the end of the day Firefox is getting better and faster at every release, i think the best is yet to come :). Also Firefox architecture facilitate this project because of all the available switches, now when it come to privacy related issues i could understand their move, we can not have an excellent service without looking at the customers habits etc. it's just the way its done that could be sometimes frustrating. but there is Librefox and similar project so it's a win win :)

[brainscar]

Thank you for your hard work @intika

[shreyasminocha]

Thank you very much @intika. Much appreciated.

[NotWorthKnowing]

Thanks for trying anyway... had a brief glimmer of hope but it looks like it's game over.

[androidacy-user]

@NotWorthKnowing Are you referring to the deprecation of webRequest?

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[intika]

Thanks for trying anyway... had a brief glimmer of hope but it looks like it's game over.

This is an aside project i can not abandon everything and work only on Librefox. it's not game over it just takes time, once i finish agonizing my other professional things i can give it a lot more time.

[NotWorthKnowing]

Intika, you misunderstood, has nothing to do with pace of development. @colbycdev is correct. Since this is at the core of what a browser does, I don't see how you can work around it. And at some point it's time to give up on fixing everything they break. If you think you can bypass these restrictions I won't rule out trying a future version of Librefox. But I'm not optimistic at all, and a browser without user controllable content blocking is not usable for me. So, I repeat, thanks for trying.

[intika]

@NotWorthKnowing what are you referring to exactly ? can you post some links

[Atavic]

Wow, Fancy That. Web Ad Giant Google To Block Ad-Blockers In Chrome

^^The issue will break webextensions on Google Chrome, not Firefox. If it will hit Firefox, external solutions as Pihole, or system-wide tools as a DNS server like: https://zenz-solutions.de/personaldnsfilter/ ...will always work.

The latter solution i uses java and works on Win and Android: https://github.com/IngoZenz/personaldnsfilter

The lightest I found - I was using DNS66 previously.

[elypter]

external solutions are far from ideal. they only work partially and currently mostly work because the majority uses browser extensions that can theoretically block everything. once the mojority uses dns based blocking or even just mere ip based blocking once dns over https gains traction websites will quickly shift to ways that cannot be blocked with such tools.

[intika]

humm interesting, this could lead to more user going back to Firefox IF Mozilla don't follow the move... now regarding the fact that Firefox integrated a light ad blocker it could be a preparation for a future similar change.

On the other hand i don't think Google is willing to loose some market share just to be able to display its ads.

Wait and see.

[Atavic]

Some users will revert, but Google has something like 80% of the market.