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Apple Maps on Web Now Supports Firefox Browser

coffeemilktea said:
- Supports ad-blocker extensions, specifically uBlock Origin (unlike Safari 😤)
- No Manifest V3 nonsense that will make it harder to have uBlock Origin (unlike Chrome, Edge, Arc, etc)

I'm sure other people can point to other Firefox features (better privacy, less resource-intensive than Chrome, etc.) that they think make it the best browser, but those two features I mentioned are the ones that matter to me.

Brave is also a good second choice, for the simple reason that it still supports all the adblock extensions that rely on Manifest V2.
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You're better off with a dns ad blocker anyway. Try NextDns and problem solved.
 
Finally! I can ditch Google Maps. Yey!!

My main computer is a windows PC and my browser is Firefox. Good news! :D

jecowa said:
I’ve been using Apple Maps in Firefox just fine before this via DuckDuckGo.
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It's very limited in DDG though. Good to have proper support.
 
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Digital Dude said:
I tried it and it doesn’t work for me. 🤷‍♂️
’just as well because I’m much happier with DuckDuckGo.
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Doesn't work for me at all.

I've tried opening this link on both Safari and Firefox, and on both it gives me the message "Do you want to allow this website to open “Maps.app" " and if I allow it, the Maps app opens. If I don't allow it, nothing happens and no Apple maps show up in either browser.

Apple Maps: Directions, Guides & Traffic

Find local businesses, get place recommendations, view maps and get driving directions on Apple Maps.
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mdriftmeyer said:
uBlock Origin isn't being stopped developing their ad-blocker extension on OS X. Just use the API.
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The reason uBlock Origin is not developed anymore for Safari is that using the API Apple requires would limit the content blocker's capabilities. The developer decided to discontinue it instead of releasing an half-baked product.
 
krakenrelease said:
You're better off with a dns ad blocker anyway. Try NextDns and problem solved.
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DNS blockers cannot do everything that a browser blocker can. Said that, DNS blockers have their own advantages like blocking content at the system level instead of being limited to the browser.

Ideally the absolute best protection is achieved by having both.
 
bsolar said:
The reason uBlock Origin is not developed anymore for Safari is that using the API Apple requires would limit the content blocker's capabilities. The developer decided to discontinue it instead of releasing an half-baked product.
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Well the new Manifest V3 version of ‘uBlock Lite’ is absolute, half-baked garbage. This is obviously Google’s fault and not theirs, but not wanting to release a ‘half-baked’ product is no longer an excuse since that’s all uBlock is now. Unless you’re using Firefox, but it remains to be seen how long the support for the full extension lasts in Firefox. Firefox may lose all their funding from Google with these new court rulings.
 
noraa said:
You mean Chrome (or really anything Chromium based)?
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Safari is the new IE. At least in the eyes of web devs. A browser that only updates like once a year just like IE. Always behind on most new developments and 95% of the time the browser you have to code workarounds for.
 
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It still doesn't work on linux.

If (like me) you're running any version of linux, you're at best at the end of the queue - or at worst relegated to the who gives a crap.

Disappointed Apple.
 
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Sogeman said:
Safari is the new IE. At least in the eyes of web devs. A browser that only updates like once a year just like IE. Always behind on most new developments and 95% of the time the browser you have to code workarounds for.
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I think you’re mistaken. The reason you may have to recode for Safari is because everyone codes for Chrome, which follows its own set of standards. Safari is basically raw WebKit, with some Apple flare on top of it. WebKit is designed to follow html standards to a T. Whereas if Google doesn’t like a particular standard, they create their own “standard”. Safari gets updated quite often, perhaps not as often as Chrome of Firefox (both of which, let’s face it, have made version numbers borderline meaningless). Safari 17 was released in Sept of last year, since then we’ve gotten 5 major point updates (currently on 17.5, which was released back in May) as well as numerous more minor point updates (17.0.1, .0.2, etc). And Safari 18 will be released in a couple of months. So that’s far, far more than once a year.
 
mudguts said:
It still doesn't work on linux.

If (like me) you're running any version of linux, you're at best at the end of the queue - or at worst relegated to the who gives a crap.

Disappointed Apple.
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Just change your Firefox user agent from Linux to Windows or Mac if you really want Apple Maps on the web.
 
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