uBlock Origin Lite is back on Firefox add-ons

41 pointsposted 2 days ago
by speckx
(addons.mozilla.org)

12 Comments

fph

a day ago

Is it better than regular uBlock origin? I thought (possibly wrongly) that the "lite" version was for inferior browsers with a crippled Adblocking API.

mfro

a day ago

Yes, it is meant for the manifest v3 browsers. I think it has a simpler interface so it may be useful to non technical people.

jameshilliard

14 hours ago

> Yes, it is meant for the manifest v3 browsers.

It was only created as a workaround to Google killing proper adblock related API support for manifest v3, it's definitely worse than regular ublock origin.

pavel_lishin

2 days ago

It was gone?

IronWolve

2 days ago

Maybe the lite? I'm running the OG.

kencausey

2 days ago

I have to wonder what is the appeal of the lite version over the OG on Firefox. I had previously assumed that the lite version only existed for browsers that blocked the functionality of the full version. Meanwhile, I'm still running uMatrix in Firefox.

CDSlice

2 days ago

The lite version has better performance since it’s effectively just a bunch of MV3 blocklists.

jameshilliard

14 hours ago

> The lite version has better performance since it’s effectively just a bunch of MV3 blocklists.

I think in practice ublock origin lite results in worse overall performance than regular ublock origin since it's worse at blocking ads(which cause more performance issues than the ad-blocker itself).