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Firefox seems pretty much on par with chrome these days and FF seems to win out on detection rates anyway so not sure why I'd want this combo?

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...

Does anyone has stats of adguard vs ublock by chance?

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uBlock origin is far better, especially compared to this Manifest v3 version of AdGuard.

AdGuard are just doing this to capture the upcoming hole in the market as uBlock Origin stops working in Chrome.

Everyone should switch to Firefox.

This is pure anecdote and not apples and oranges, but I've found the ad-blocking experience with Safari/Adguard comparable to Firefox/uBO.

I have not. Now I need an other application running in the background. Moreover, if AdGuard needs to up, then you're going to need to restart Safari. Also, I have to enable 8 different extensions to get it to work?

AdGuard actually works as a regular Safari extension. The background application is only if you want to selectively block ads per site, or to run updates automatically. You can still open it to update filters and close whenever you want.

Firefox on android is horrible. Full of bugs and slow downs.

I use it exclusively, I'm quite happy with it personally. I do wish they allowed more than just a few specific extensions to work, though.

I use it with uBlock on a $250 "budget" Android phone and it's as fast as Chrome. The last time I remember Firefox being slow on Android was when I was running it on a ZTE phone running FirefoxOS.

The only bugs I find belong to websites, which I don't count against Firefox. I used to have to support IE8... if the site broke it was my responsibility, not the browser.

How recently have you used it? It works great for me

Also it has a non native scroll behavior that is awful and a deal breaker to me.

I use Firefox on Android with uBlock origin for blocking ads and kagi for search. This Google (albeit Android is Google) free browsing works extremely well for me.

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