IronY-Man Posted May 30, 2019 Share Posted May 30, 2019 Coming Soon .... The Dawn of the Web-Planet of the ADGUARD !! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEmpathicEar Posted May 30, 2019 Share Posted May 30, 2019 I use AdGuard on Android. I have no idea how or how well it works on Windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mkc21 Posted May 30, 2019 Share Posted May 30, 2019 welp time to go back to FF ugh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karlston Posted May 30, 2019 Share Posted May 30, 2019 1 hour ago, TheEmpathicEar said: Chrome users [like me] would have to know how to migrate bookmarks, and possibly other things. Most browsers allow importing of stuff from other browsers. Firefox is no different... Switching from Chrome to Firefox How To Import Chrome Data To Firefox: History & Bookmarks (and Passwords and Cookies) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted May 31, 2019 Author Share Posted May 31, 2019 6 hours ago, IronY-Man said: Coming Soon .... The Dawn of the Web-Planet of the ADGUARD !! They a few caveat with ADGUARD it's shareware , the masses will never adopt it in this ill give you all my data in exchange for free software and services world we live in today. They was paid AD Blockers long before ADGUARD many witch are abandon-ware now they was even crack versions and they blame that and this forum on they reason they made it free and abandon it . People don't like paying and the masses don't visit warez forums to get some crack version the reason extensions have millions of users is there free . Also ADGUARD only have a DNS filter and extensions you can use on Linux. Outside of the warez forums people are talking about using PI-Hole , DNS that block ads , Host block or switching browsers but no one is talking about buying and AD Blocker and no one is talking about pirating one ether but pirates . Heck IE always had this problem and it's one the masses quit using it too. 🤣 The best we can hope for that this may spark a interest with some open source devs that are not into blocking ADs for a fee to make some standalone adblocker software. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cereberus Posted June 4, 2019 Share Posted June 4, 2019 On 5/31/2019 at 5:00 AM, DKT27 said: Expect a lot of people to switch to Firefox. A lot of them are switching already but they were in minority, now expect more to do so. Remember, changes to Firefox addons made it problematic for regular users of Firefox, it does not deter Chrome users from switching to Firefox. Having said, I do think such addons developers will find a way to make them work, but not as efficiently though. just wondering but what was the reason firefox decided to kill off the old addons that simply worked? from what i understand, session manager was especially hit hard, and still hasn't recovered with a mature api for extensions to make good use of yet. when i tried going back to firefox, the one CORE functionality i couldn't get to work is an extension similar to session buddy/the great suspender which are both capable of reopening windows sessions with multiple windows and tabs in the CORRECT original order. Closest i got was session boss, but it had the problem of reopening them in an unordered manner making a mess. now i'm using brave browser to weather out this storm. i can still use my chrome extensions normally, and it gutted out the closed source chrome coding (SUPPOSEDLY). And the brave dev promise to not let this crappy manifest 3 make it's way into brave browser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted June 7, 2019 Administrator Share Posted June 7, 2019 On 6/5/2019 at 5:19 AM, Cereberus said: just wondering but what was the reason firefox decided to kill off the old addons that simply worked? from what i understand, session manager was especially hit hard, and still hasn't recovered with a mature api for extensions to make good use of yet. when i tried going back to firefox, the one CORE functionality i couldn't get to work is an extension similar to session buddy/the great suspender which are both capable of reopening windows sessions with multiple windows and tabs in the CORRECT original order. Closest i got was session boss, but it had the problem of reopening them in an unordered manner making a mess. now i'm using brave browser to weather out this storm. i can still use my chrome extensions normally, and it gutted out the closed source chrome coding (SUPPOSEDLY). And the brave dev promise to not let this crappy manifest 3 make it's way into brave browser. Thing is, Firefox addons were based on a really outdated language, if you might call it. That language that was made more than two decades ago, which served it's needs during the time, was the biggest reason of the slowness and slow responsiveness of Firefox. Not only did that language give enormous powers to the addons which slowed the Firefox, the language was fundamentally such that it was the biggest reason behind the slowness of it. The loading of pages, the interface, all was slow due to one single thing. Now, you can change somethings in the language, but you cannot fix the fundamentals without breaking it completely - which would have broken all the addons either way. It was a thing that Mozilla had to do, not from now, from almost a decade. They and everyone in the browsers developers world knew that they will have to get rid of it, otherwise Firefox will never be able to stand the needs of the modern fast web. Just run a page loading test in the original Firefox addons version and newer Quantum versions, the difference is really big. So Mozilla knew that had to do it at some point of time, but they kept delaying it, knowing well that users might not like it, but they had to do it to stay relevant. As far as individual addons are concerned, I am not aware much. But as far as API are concerned, I agree, Mozilla has been rather slow in implementing them properly and in a quick manner I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEmpathicEar Posted June 7, 2019 Share Posted June 7, 2019 1. I always thought that Chrome was bloated too? 2. Is Firefox a good alternative to Chrome now? Or, will this still take some time? [Add-Ons are important to me here in this analysis. The only reason I am interested is the headline here] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted June 7, 2019 Administrator Share Posted June 7, 2019 1 minute ago, TheEmpathicEar said: 1. I always thought that Chrome was bloated too? 2. Is Firefox a good alternative to Chrome now? Or, will this still take some time? [Add-Ons are important to me here in this analysis. The only reason I am interested is the headline here] Chrome was always fast. The problem it had is lack of sufficient customization and the overall belief that it used RAM like anything. Now using free RAM is a good thing, but using so much RAM in such a big scale either speaks that they made it purposely so as a feature to keep the browser fast or it speaks about lesser likely thing that is badly optimized browser - which is unlikely as Google develops it. As far it's comparison to Firefox is concerned, while it's always upon individuals to decide, Firefox is gaining relevance more these days. Reasons are simple. Firefox is pushing more and more for openness of the internet and privacy of users and Google, if not Chrome itself seems to be going in the opposite directions. Trying a different browser and getting used to it is never easy. I did not accept Firefox as my main browser for a long time, in the days Firefox was considered the best. So it takes time to get used to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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