Martin Brinkmann at gHacks reports
A new WebExtension version of the popular content blocker uBlock Origin was [uploaded on August 31] to Mozilla's official add-ons repository for Firefox.
The new version is compatible with Firefox's new WebExtensions standard for extensions, and will as such continue to work when Firefox 57 gets released.
This first official release of the WebExtensions version of uBlock Origin works for the most part just like the legacy add-on version.
Users may experience issues however when they upgrade from the legacy version of the add-on to the new version.
Raymond Hill, the developer of uBlock Origin suggests that 32-bit users of Firefox stay on version 1.13.8 of the add-on until these issues are resolved.
[Workarounds for storage limit bug for extra filter lists and custom settings described]
[...] Additional information [is] available on uBlock Origin's Mozilla AMO page, and the GitHub project site.
(Score: 2) by lx on Friday September 01 2017, @10:44AM (1 child)
Luckily there are forks of Firefox. For now I switched to Waterfox [waterfoxproject.org]. They removed many useless and annoying features of FF and your addons keep on working. Not sure if they managed to remove all the unwanted behaviour at this time.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 01 2017, @06:51PM
...and, since ~November 2016 (50.0), [archive.is] they've had Linux ports available. [waterfoxproject.org]
(OS X too.)
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