The Quest for the Perfect Browser (ongoing)

For years now I’ve been telling myself I’m going to stop using Google Chrome. Besides the obvious reason — Google tracking everything I do — Chrome just has a way of pissing me off over and over again. Continual BS updates, unnecessary fucking around with the UI, removing features without my consent, etc etc. Nevertheless, I keep ending up back in Chrome like some bad addiction. (Really I blame my users… since so many damn people use Chrome I have to use it to see what they see, and along the way I open a couple billion tabs, and I just get… stuck there. But I digress.)

I’ve made a valiant effort over the years to try to use Firefox. I’ve followed their journey since the Netscape Navigator days, which was great for it’s time! (Now I’m giving away my age, oops!) But unfortunately, Firefox has been pissing me off too. Continue reading The Quest for the Perfect Browser (ongoing)

How to get around Google Chrome dropping Manifest v2 support (for now)

Google Chrome always fucks with me at the least opportune moments. Always when I’m in a hurry, trying to log in and do something quickly — BOOM — Chrome has updated (without my permission) and something is broken. This week, Chrome decided to disable all my extensions because of something called “Manifest v2 support” that apparently has been dropped in favor of something called “Manifest v3”. No warning, just forcibly turned off all my extensions. Isn’t that nice?

Fuck you Google Chrome
Fuck you Google Chrome

I’m not a developer of browser extensions, so I don’t give a shit what either Manifest v2 or v3 is. All I know is I’m in a hurry to do something else, and I can’t browse the web without two absolutely mandatory extensions: Dark Reader and uBlock Origin (UBO). I had to stop everything I was doing and find some way to get my extensions back.

Dark Reader already released an update for this Manifest v3 bullshit, so that was easy enough (albeit annoying). UBO, however, has not and/or can’t. Thankfully, I found this gem on r/uBlockOrigin which explains how to fix it (at least for now… until Google fully blocks it):
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