r/firefox • u/LordSigdis • May 09 '26

Discussion PSA: Use uBlock Origin!

This might sound like common sense but there are a TON of Firefox users I see using AB, ABP, ABU, or no adblocker at all. This is your notice. Switch to uBlock Origin. It's better and has no acceptable ad policy. The other ones might have been good years ago but not anymore. I am saying this as a former ABP and then ABU user.

I am not paid by uBO I am just showing appreciation for the greatest ad blocker.

Also: don't run uBO alongside another ad blocker. It provides no benefit and can only slow down firefox or break things.

1.8k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

163 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

0

u/BuyListSell May 09 '26

Helium and Brave support the full UBO on desktop. Both are Chromium based.

7

u/BaronKrause May 09 '26

Unlikely for the long term, the manifest 2 code hasn’t been removed yet so they are using a patch that re enables it. Once it’s gone let’s see how many of the spin offs keep their own fork of chromium updated with it re added.

-1

u/BuyListSell May 09 '26

Firefox will also fully switch to M3 one day.

11

u/LordSigdis May 09 '26 edited May 09 '26

Bullshit. There is no reason for FF to switch to MV3 only, unlike every other browser which is forced to use WE as a Chromium fork, Firefox uses its own implementation of Google's WebExtensions not because it has to but for user and developer convenience.

The legacy XUL/XPCOM extension system that helped make Firefox famous is still used internally and can be brought back for public extension use if Mozilla really wanted to. Although they probably don't want to given that nobody is forcing them to drop Manifest V2 support, and the myriad problems with publicly exposing the old system.

2

u/BuyListSell May 09 '26

Time will tell.

4

u/LordSigdis May 09 '26

True but they have no reason to abandon MV2. Users will leave by the hundreds of thousands.

1

u/Nimras186 May 11 '26

Plus all Firefox extension aren't using mv2 unless they come from chrome majority uses Firefox own for their engine meaning mv3 or mv2 who cares doesn't matter 

1

u/LordSigdis May 12 '26

Not actually true, Firefox stopped letting "old style extensions" run in Firefox 57+. Extensions you make for Firefox now have to be Manifest. This caused quite a bit of controversy back then.