[rsoto]

With the manifest v3 debacle they have a golden opportunity in their hands. They can promoting the fact that they work for you rather than advertisers, they could explain what true privacy looks like, regardless of what device you're using.

Firefox on Android used to be a really good product--it supported basically every popular extension there was for desktop, then in 2018-2019 they appeared to start a new revamped project for some reason. I downloaded the beta for it--it was rough around the corners, it had a quite short whitelist of extensions, most of the functionalities were absent, but there were a few improvements here and there. And out of nowhere, a few weeks later they made it the default.

It's been way too long and the app still feels unfinished. It crashes way too much and I can't even move around the icons for the websites in the start page. They've enabled the list of extensions recently but it's a mess. I only use it since it's where I can have uBlock origin.

It feels that every couple of years they have a golden opportunity, but somehow they never seem to know what to do.

[kelnos]

I'm pretty sure 95% of Chrome users don't know or care about Manifest v3 or what issues it brings.

Consider also that most web users don't use an ad blocker; by definition most web users won't care about the Mv3 change, as that's what it seems to affect most.

On top of that, it seems like ad blockers still work decently well under Mv3. That could change over time, certainly, but there's not really a compelling reason for most Chrome users to switch.

> [Firefox for Android] crashes way too much

Interesting; I've been using it for years and very rarely encounter a crash. Desktop Firefox (Linux) crashes more often than Firefox for Android, and there too it's incredibly rare.

[TiredOfLife]

I switched to the v3 version of uBlock a couple weeks ago and have not seen a difference in blocking compared to v2.

[remram]

Amen. The mobile app is honestly such a slap in the face. Synced tabs is a joke, the bookmark tags they push so hard on you on desktop don't appear on mobile so you have to move everything back to folders, extensions were removed for 6 years... features you don't need get pushed in your face with no way to hide them, e.g. password manager, "translate this page", collections, sync... rarely have I felt less in control of my own hardware.

I use Firefox because Chrome is worse, not because I feel respected, "in control", or heard.