The remedy is to switch to Firefox and continue using the extensions that aren't being broken on purpose by a company abusing their monopoly position.
But there will be a bunch of posts in this thread about people bemoaning Firefox because they have to have thousands of tabs open all at once everyday and Firefox renders them a second or two slower. There will also be people who will complain that the dev tools aren't exactly like what they learned in college/their boot camp so they can't spend dozens of minutes learning the Firefox tools so they can make their CRUD SPA can load megabytes of JSON outside of Chrome
I don't particularly blame Mozilla/Firefox for this but it is obvious to me the writing is on the wall for the "non-lite" version of the extension, due to Chrome stealing all the manpower towards the lite version. The fact that the author is now publishing the "lite" extension also for Firefox itself looks as confirmation to me. The author's description even seems to praise Manifest v3 in the same way Google PR did.
Who wouldn't? It's one less version to maintain, and you're not going to stop maintaining the one most people use.
> The author's description even seems to praise Manifest v3 in the same way Google PR did.
No, it simply declares the goal of that add-on: to fully comply with declarative ways of MV3 AND its limitations, and no uBO extended features that need workarounds to be implemented.
I'm not so pessimistic that no maintainer would be interested in maintaining the full fat uBo. I've got to imagine there's still quite a few people using the project.
To some extent I have to ask - who cares that Chrome is more broadly used? That never stopped Firefox and its extensions from becoming popular in the first place. All it took for Firefox to rise was the competition being crap, and well the competition is becoming crap. Chromium's monopoly doesn't stop a few contrarian developers from continuing to keep their websites Firefox compatible.
Google pushes Chrome across all its web properties. Between Chrome itself and its soft forks I see little reason for hope. Especially since Mozilla gets so much hate from power users such as those here.
All snark aside, Firefox is probably the last browser you should use if you care about extensions (or other functionality) not being broken on purpose or arbitrarily removed with no notice, recourse, or opportunity for feedback.
Firefox has done this to me multiple times. As someone who uses a web browser as a tool for both business and pleasure, and as someone who does not appreciate flag days forced on me for no good reason, I am perfectly happy and have been encountered far fewer surprises with a chromium fork.
Thing is, Firefox doesn't break extensions with malice. I'll take a hundred "oops, our update broke some extensions", or, more fairly, "we broke a lot of extensions to provide orders-of-magnitude better performance", over a single instance of "Fuck your AdBlocker, it's cutting into our profit margins".
That latter category of breakage, which Firefox has never done, and has no motive to, is the reason I will never use the shameless antitrust-case-in-waiting Chrome, or any of it's pseudo-independent offspring.
Do you have an example of an addon this has happened to you for? I've had the opposite experience (stuff breaking on Chrome and well, never had an issue with it on Firefox).
But there will be a bunch of posts in this thread about people bemoaning Firefox because they have to have thousands of tabs open all at once everyday and Firefox renders them a second or two slower. There will also be people who will complain that the dev tools aren't exactly like what they learned in college/their boot camp so they can't spend dozens of minutes learning the Firefox tools so they can make their CRUD SPA can load megabytes of JSON outside of Chrome