Mozilla Firefox set to drop current extension support; implement Chrome style signed WebExtensions A

[Alice]

[QUOTE=Gunzers6;48532439]I wish Firefox would stop trying to become Google Chrome. If I wanted to use Google Chrome I'd use Google Chrome.[/QUOTE]
Unfortunately it's a matter of Chrome being so overly popular for whatever reason so they're trying to appeal more to Chrome users who are pretty unlikely to switch and in the mean time changing shit that their userbase doesn't want them to change.

[Tamschi]

[QUOTE=Alice3173;48534074][...] Chrome being so overly popular for whatever reason [...][/QUOTE]

Google is pushing it through their search engine and YouTube.
There's no way Mozilla can compete with that no matter what.

[editline]26th August 2015[/editline]

Google is also really aggressive now in telling users how to switch their default browser to Chrome on Windows 10 (which is annoyingly inconvenient now that programs aren't allowed to do it automatically).

[Loogaroo]

Is it time to break out SparkBrowser?

[TornadoAP]

Honestly, as soon as proper Adblock gets set up I'll probably just switch to Edge.

[Demache]

[QUOTE=TornadoAP;48542988]Honestly, as soon as proper Adblock gets set up I'll probably just switch to Edge.[/QUOTE]

Edge is actually pretty legit. It just needs proper add on support and I'll be happy.

[Rahu X]

[QUOTE=MegaJohnny;48529917]I moved off Chrome because requiring every third party extension goes through your service is totally unacceptable. Time to move again, I guess.[/QUOTE]

Good luck finding a browser that doesn't do this now.

I would assume your only choice would be to use some Firefox forks that consciously choose to not support this feature. Opera and Vivaldi will more than likely go through their own services and/or use Google's services as well due to them being based off of Blink, and I'm pretty sure Microsoft Edge will use Microsoft's services for "security reasons."

[QUOTE=Demache;48567838]Edge is actually pretty legit. It just needs proper add on support and I'll be happy.[/QUOTE]

For me, once Microsoft decides to have Edge on other platforms (Android especially), I'll definitely consider switching.

For now, Vivaldi seems like the only decent alternative to Chrome and Firefox, but it just needs to leave the development phase and have a mobile browser.

[gdfsgdfg]

Looks like I will be sticking with 41 firefox for a while, 42 firefox will be a shitty attempt at chrome 2, I will be having none of that shit.