The new MV3 architecture reflects Google’s avowed desire to make browser extensions more performant, private, and secure. But the internet giant’s attempt to do so has been bitterly contested by makers of privacy-protecting and content-blocking extensions, who have argued that the Chocolate Factory’s new software architecture will lead to less effective privacy and content-filtering extensions.

For users of uBlock Origin, which runs on Manifest V2, “options” means using the less capable uBlock Origin Lite, which supports Manifest V3.

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It just has a crap load of software packages it depends on to work properly (though a number of them seem like fonts). I have reasonably fast computer, and it’s been compiling for about 45 minutes at this point.

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Use librewolf-bin or just use the flatpak

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Just did with librewolf-bin, thanks. I always forget to look for the binary packages specifically on AUR.

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Ah compile… guess I’ll stick with regular Firefox. There are some magiks I don’t tamper with.

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You don’t need to compile it. There’s a flatpak, and the AUR has a binary package

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How is the flatpak system? I’ve never dug into it.

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I mean, if you’re intimidated by compiling you probably shouldn’t be using Arch to begin with.

(I’m hoping that you didn’t understand the “on AUR” part of the comment as well as the “dependencies” part, and actually use a more reasonable distro that isn’t subject to the issue @bobs_monkey is complaining about.)

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You’re right. I don’t even know what Arch is to want to try and use it.

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You don’t need to compile it. There’s a librewolf-bin package which provides a precompiled binary, or you can use the Flatpak.

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