If ublock origin stops working on Edge and Chrome I will switch to Firefox. Firefox is a horrible browser, but I don't see any choice at this point. Have you tried to browse the internet without ublock??
Brave is my 2nd choice to Edge and it's adblocking isn't dependent on manifest versions. I would consider a good adblocker alternative though like AdGuard. I love that one on iOS. They do a great job. I can't say I miss uBlock Origin there.
Is there anything actually wrong with Firefox besides just being kind of sluggish on heavy pages these days? All the web features that matter are available and have been for years...
I used Firefox religiously for 19 years straight until last August. I moved to Edge. I never liked Chrome but did want its speed as you refer to there.
If Edge loses uBlock Origin, I'll definitely try alternatives first.. but I wouldn't go back to FF. I did a review of all browsers last summer and came to liking Edge the most, then Brave as my second choice. Part of my ranking methodology was how big of a vendor was supporting each browser, as I've seen some value in that now that browsers are critical. That metric really hurt Vivaldi, Opera etc. Brave only came out on top because it's the only fully open-sourced browser other than Firefox. The built-in adblocking that's not dependent on outside support may win it a lot of new users soon though, including me.
There's no such thing. There's Firefox, Chrome and Safari (and since you're using Edge, I doubt you're a macOS user). Everything else is Chrome with a different paint job. Once Google drops support for v2, everyone will. Maybe Microsoft has the engineering power to support it, but they have no reason to, and Opera might want to, but doesn't have the funding required.
Firefox is slow, but it's not that slow.
<philosophical>I'll take the extra second of loading time for GMail any day over contributing to the harmful browser monoculture</philosophical>
I meant alternatives to uBlock Origin. AdGuard is quite good on my iPhone and it must be very restricted.
If V3 really is Armageddon as everyone is saying, then I have my new browser lined up. It's Brave. And it already has a suitable adblocker built-in. It's the no brainer solution here.
A friend of mine is a macOS user and he loves Edge. There's a native Apple Silicon build and it works well.
