Interesting, I had not heard about this (looks like it was announced at the most recent WWDC), but the Vimium devs already have![1]
Vimium and uBlock Origin are pretty much the only two plugins keeping me from switching away from Chrome/Firefox to Safari.
Given all the hype around Safari’s performance on new M1 Macs (and the fact that only Safari supports Apple Pay), I’d love to have parity on these two extensions extensions. It seeems like Web Extensions will not provide enough to fully support uBlock Origin, but maybe their Content Blockers will be a close enough approximation.
At the very least, I hope that Safari will gain a larger userbase from these changes, regardless what I choose to use. Having multiple large, evenly distributed userbases will only make web developers think more about Chrome-first or Chrome-only development.
Vimium and uBlock Origin are pretty much the only two plugins keeping me from switching away from Chrome/Firefox to Safari.
Given all the hype around Safari’s performance on new M1 Macs (and the fact that only Safari supports Apple Pay), I’d love to have parity on these two extensions extensions. It seeems like Web Extensions will not provide enough to fully support uBlock Origin, but maybe their Content Blockers will be a close enough approximation.
At the very least, I hope that Safari will gain a larger userbase from these changes, regardless what I choose to use. Having multiple large, evenly distributed userbases will only make web developers think more about Chrome-first or Chrome-only development.
[1] https://github.com/philc/vimium/issues/3610