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"Begin disabling installed extensions still using Manifest V2 in Chrome stable"

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552 points freedomben | 3 comments | 11 Oct 24 14:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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bijection ◴[11 Oct 24 19:04 UTC] No.41812422[source]▶
I've finally switched (back) to firefox today.

I switched from firefox to chrome for their superior devtools a few years back, but hopefully firefox has had time to catch up.

Everything old is new again!

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ttt3ts ◴[11 Oct 24 19:56 UTC] No.41813042[source]▶
IMO they are still not as good although they have improved. I just develop in chrome and use Firefox for everything else.
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aftbit ◴[12 Oct 24 00:28 UTC] No.41815308[source]▶
I use a little `chrome-new` script to develop (and sometimes take video calls or use buggy apps) against a totally clean fresh Chrome profile, then I use Firefox with uBlock Origin and uMatrix for daily driving.

    #!/bin/sh
    [ -z $CHROME ] && CHROME=chromium
    TMPDIR=$(mktemp -d /dev/shm/chrome-XXXXX)
    $CHROME --user-data-dir=$TMPDIR --no-first-run --no-default-browser-check "$@"
    rm -rf $TMPDIR
The first line lets me override which Chrome version I launch if I want to try instead google-chrome-stable or google-chrome-beta for example. I keep them all installed from the AUR on Arch.
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1. pushupentry1219 ◴[12 Oct 24 03:26 UTC] No.41816157[source]▶
I prefer this way. Much simpler but way more aggressive:

`export HOME=$TMPDIR chrome <args...>`

Will make chrome think that $TMPDIR is $HOME. Keep in mind that means your downloads for example would also be deleted after the rm -rf

This works for most other software too

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2. zufallsheld ◴[12 Oct 24 06:23 UTC] No.41816906[source]▶
Better just use 'HOME=$TMPDIR chrome <args... > without the export. With export the Home variable will persist for the current shell, potentially leading to unwanted results.
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3. pushupentry1219 ◴[12 Oct 24 09:27 UTC] No.41817782[source]▶
Right correct. I put this in a script hence the export. Though its probably not necessary as well.