Well...tonight "it" finally happened. I did an apt-get update followed by going into aptitude to apply the latest updates. Among them was google-chrome-stable. Next time I ran it, it promptly told me 3 of my extensions were disabled because...well, don't know the exact wording, something like they're unsupported. uBlock Origin, EditThisCookie, and SQRL all fell victim. It's the first one of those which is my dealbreaker.
Google have apparently finally pulled the Manifest V3 trigger. The author of uBlock tried for a while to support a V3 compliant "lite" version of the extension, but ultimately concluded it's not worth his time, effort, and the headaches. So, uBlock for Chrome is, as best as I can tell, dead. Other Blink browsers have announced they'll try to support V2 for a while longer, but are not to my knowledge making hard and fast promises.
I have been planning this transition for months. I have already been running Firefox as my preference at home (on Linux), but at work (Win 11), for the longest time, Chrome was my go-to. I figured, the sooner I start the transition, the less I'll be fumbling around when my must-haves won't work anymore. So I set up Mozilla syncing accounts, one per purpose (home, work), and several profiles (home, work, work as admin, home with alternate email address, etc.). I got used to the less convenient ways of switching profiles (buttons on the builtin about:profiles page) and the less convenient Firefox View for finding open windows, tabs, and pages.
I'm...kinda...fine with where I am, except for the recent Mozilla change in terms of use. So...anything at all I use FF for can potentially be used by Mozilla in just about any way they please. Anything I type, any UI elements I click, any features on the pages I visit with which I interact, heck, maybe even the URIs themselves are potential fodder for...who knows what. My inkling is it's for LLM or other AI training. Still, their new policy is a bit broad for my tastes, but at this point, it's the least of all evils.
With so much of the world swirled into the Blink/V8 universe, with only Mozilla's Gecko and Apple's WebKit to act as competition, I can hardly wait to see what Ladybird is like. Seems like that's gonna be "a bit" before it's a usable program though, they've only just begun.
English is a difficult enough language to interpret correctly when its rules are followed, let alone when the speaker or writer chooses not to follow those rules.
"Jeopardy!" replies and randomcaps really suck!