The "Manifest V3" rollout is back after letting tensions cool for a year.

The “Manifest V3” rollout is back after letting tensions cool for a year.

  • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Google’s sales pitch for Manifest V3 is that, by limiting extensions, the browser can be lighter on resources, and Google can protect your privacy from extension developers.

    Emphases mine. Funny, I use extensions to protect my privacy from Google.

    Chromium needs to be fully divested from Google. End of story. There’s too much conflict of interest in letting the world’s largest advertising company have this much control over one of the two major browsers. If you don’t see the problem with that, imagine if Taco Bell was also the world’s largest producer of anti-diarrhea medicine.

      • anlumo@feddit.de
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        10 months ago

        As a web developer, Safari needs to either die in a fire or be transferred to a company that actually cares. It’s more than half a decade behind everybody else.

        • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
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          10 months ago

          Tell me about it. Every time I implement some new thing in my app:

          Firefox/Chrome: You cast HTML5 video. Critical hit!

          Safari: Your spell fizzles…

          • anlumo@feddit.deEnglish
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            10 months ago

            It also took 6 years longer than everybody else to support WebGL2, and it’s the only browser without a working WebGPU implementation. It also has no timeline for wasm-gc, while Chrome already ships with it default enabled and Firefox will ship with it on the next release.

            • abhibeckert@beehaw.org
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              10 months ago

              It also has no timeline for wasm-gc

              Apple has been removing support for garbage collection from other technologies that used to support it. Wouldn’t be surprised if they never add support for that, they’ll tell you not to waste CPU cycles (and therefore, battery power) collecting garbage.

              They want you to figure out when memory should be deallocated at compile time, not run time.

              • anlumo@feddit.deEnglish
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                10 months ago

                I personally prefer to use such languages, but I often don’t have a choice for certain tech stacks.