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yes_noscript wrote:if you use uMatrix you dont need [...] ghostery
µMatrix and Ghostery are not redundant. How do you figure that µMatrix makes Ghostery unnecessary?
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https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix/comm ... 354a266307

Does this mean that Pale Moon support is being dropped and SeaMonkey won't be supported until it gets WebExtensions support? Or just that users of those browsers will have to self build µMatrix releases from the source from now on?
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I would say, yes.
But with Basilisk a "new" Pale Moon start which support (not all) webextensions
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barbaz wrote:https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix/comm ... 354a266307

Does this mean that Pale Moon support is being dropped and SeaMonkey won't be supported until it gets WebExtensions support? Or just that users of those browsers will have to self build µMatrix releases from the source from now on?
It means that they are ceasing the XPCOM edition of uMatrix (umatrix.firefox.xpi). There will be one for Firefox Quantum, which is WebExtension (umatrix.webext.xpi), and one for Chromium (umatrix.chromium.xpi).
  • Going forward, uMatrix will not work on:
    • SeaMonkey (until it gets WebExt support)
    • Pale Moon (which will never support WebExt)
    • Any other Gecko/Goanna browser that will not support WebExt
    It will work on:
    • Firefox Quantum
    • Waterfox
    • Cyberfox
    • Basilisk
      also
    • Chromium
    • Chrome
    • Opera
FYI: the same developers will continue to develop the XPCOM edition of uBlock Origin, which blocks a lot of stuff and can be made more powerful with dynamic filtering.

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Thanks gracious1.

Oh well, at least µMatrix 1.1.0 works well for me.

EDIT
Apparently there is now a Github issue about this - https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix/issues/826
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yes_noscript wrote:I would say, yes.
But with Basilisk a "new" Pale Moon start which support (not all) webextensions
Basilisk is in no sense a "new" Pale Moon. It is a different browser. It is created by Moonchild Productions, which also created Pale Moon. They are two separate products which Moonchild Productions shall continue to develop indefinitely.
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In µMatrix legacy, it was possible to mostly disable placeholders using user.js. By "mostly disable" I mean only (i)frames had placeholders, and other elements had no visual placeholders, i.e. they looked like browser default behavior for blocked content.

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user_pref("extensions.umatrix.placeholderBackground", "");
user_pref("extensions.umatrix.placeholderBorder", "");
user_pref("extensions.umatrix.placeholderImage", "");
I'm now using µMatrix webext 1.1.20. How to disable placeholders for everything other than (i)frames now?

btw, Happy New Year @gorhill :D
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With my 52esr, I'm stuck on v.1.0.0. Going forward, at least until 52esr EOL, what are the security implications of running uMatrix, for all intents and purposes, unsupported?
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No need to use a version quite that old. I suggest you use µMatrix 1.1.0, as I did before moving to a Webext-compatible browser.

You can look at the changelog to see what changes you're missing - https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix/releases
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barbaz wrote:No need to use a version quite that old. I suggest you use µMatrix 1.1.0, as I did before moving to a Webext-compatible browser.

You can look at the changelog to see what changes you're missing - https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix/releases
Thanks, but for v.1.1.0 at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... /versions/

seeing "this version not compatible...."
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kukla wrote:Thanks, but for v.1.1.0 at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... /versions/

seeing "this version not compatible...."
Yeah, which is why I provided the link where you can get the legacy version 1.1.0.
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Didn't understand (obviously). Thanks, will get that.
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Wrinkle: downloaded the Firefox 1.1.0 xpi from github. "Could not be installed because not verified"
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kukla wrote:Wrinkle: downloaded the Firefox 1.1.0 xpi from github. "Could not be installed because not verified"
about:config > set xpinstall.signatures.required to false
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Knew there was something like that, couldn't remember just where. Will give that a go later on.
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