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U.S. Department of Homeland Security Urges Firefox Users to Install Update Amid Active Attack

Not sure why this would be an issue, since most FF users would have auto-update enabled by default.

That is, unless there is a valid reason you don't wanna update a browser. It's not like going from something which now does WebExtentions..
That was a major issue...
 
Firefox is awesome because it prompts me to update, the About screen tells me if it's up-to-date or not, it doesn't have Chrome's bloat, and it can handle many more open tabs than Safari and still remain usable.
 
bsolar said:
Neither Firefox nor Chrome integrate with the Keychain for good reasons.

I like password managers for them being browser and operating system agnostic: you can easily use the same password manager e.g. on iOS Safari, Windows Chrome and Linux Firefox.

I personally suggest Bitwarden: it's open source, has a free tier which includes all common used features and can even be self-hosted if one wants to entirely avoid uploading the encrypted passwords to the cloud.
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As a regular user, I don't use multiple operating systems for personal stuff*, so I'd rather things work automatically. It may not be their fault for not using the Keychain, but that doesn't really matter to me.
* For work of course it's Linux + Mac and a different world.
 
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fairuz said:
As a regular user, I don't use multiple operating systems for personal stuff*, so I'd rather things work automatically. It may not be their fault for not using the Keychain, but that doesn't really matter to me.
* For work of course it's Linux + Mac and a different world.
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If those are your priorities Safari it's the only option for you, being the only browser able to integrate with the iCloud Keychain.

In my case, I won't use a browser lacking WebM support, lacking extensions support and placing limits on content blockers functionality, so to me Safari is not an option at all.
 
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If those are your priorities Safari it's the only option for you, being the only browser able to integrate with the iCloud Keychain.

In my case, I won't use a browser lacking WebM support, lacking extensions support and placing limits on content blockers functionality, so to me Safari is not an option at all.
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Safari has extensions. Doesn't have as many, but all the major ad blockers work fine (I'm using uBlock Origin). Not sure what you'd need WebM for besides 4chan, but I understand wanting to support a royalty-free standard vs H.246.
 
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fairuz said:
Safari has extensions. Doesn't have as many, but all the major ad blockers work fine (I'm using uBlock Origin). Not sure what you'd need WebM for besides 4chan, but I understand wanting to support a royalty-free standard vs H.246.
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From uBlock Origin's official code repository: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/blob/master/platform/safari/README.md#safari-platform
The Safari platform does not support the WebExtensions framework and thus is no longer supported. Consequently the code base has been removed.
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Not sure what you are using, but uBlock Origin stopped its development for Safari in 2018, when Apple started imposing limitations to content blockers, and doesn't work at all in Safari 13. I suggest you to read https://github.com/el1t/uBlock-Safari/issues/158

uBlock Origin was ported for Safari in 2016, and was updated regulary (mostly changes from the main project) until 2018 when development completley stopped. Since then Apple has begun phasing out Safari extensions as extensions, and has instead been implenting a new extensions framework which is extremley limited in adblocking functions, only allowing "content blockers", which are just links bundled as an app which Safari enforces.
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It will not possible for uBlock Origin to work with the upcoming Safari 13 / macOS Catalina release
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Please check the link for a list of options. Make sure you are not using "uBlock": it's not uBlock Origin.

I suggest switching to Firefox or using AdGuard, which is a good blocker which works around some of Apple's limitations by presenting itself as 6 separate blockers. Not sure how long Apple will keep tolerating this workaround though.

WebM is used e.g. by YouTube if you want all quality options available: YouTube on h264 supports only a subset of them.
 
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bsolar said:
From uBlock Origin's official code repository: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/blob/master/platform/safari/README.md#safari-platform


Not sure what you are using, but uBlock Origin stopped its development for Safari in 2018, when Apple started imposing limitations to content blockers, and doesn't work at all in Safari 13. I suggest you to read https://github.com/el1t/uBlock-Safari/issues/158



Please check the link for a list of options. Make sure you are not using "uBlock": it's not uBlock Origin.

I suggest switching to Firefox or using AdGuard, which is a good blocker which works around some of Apple's limitations by presenting itself as 6 separate blockers. Not sure how long Apple will keep tolerating this workaround though.

WebM is used e.g. by YouTube if you want all quality options available: YouTube on h264 supports only a subset of them.
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Well, that sucks. My Safari is old enough that I haven't noticed. It is uBlock Origin; I'm aware that "uBlock" is fake. Gonna hope Apple loosens their restrictions cause I'm not as fond of Firefox, mainly for energy usage, and I won't touch Chrome.
 
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