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Manifest v3 is the only thing I can think of that spawned a lot of “I’m switching to Firefox” online conversations over the last year.

But that’s in the nerdiest, most niche programming circles, so I can’t believe its impact is actually measurable.

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I find ff "total cookie protection" amazing.

First time I read about it I thought "how on earth has this not been the standard way to handle cookies since browsers were invented?"

and yet, Firefox is switching to Manifest v3, too, just on a more delayed timeline than Chrome.

They're not getting rid of the old blocking API, though.

Yet.

When Google makes it contingent on their annual "donation", they will.

That donation may well be just as important for google than it is to mozilla. They are much better off without a huge lawsuit and paying out “pennies” each year.

Yes, it's an important donation - for stifling competition. There is more than one way to monopolize the market.

I worked there as an engineer for just under 9 years. Google does not give Mozilla engineering its marching orders.

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