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Google themselves launched or re-launched five Chrome-only sites last year (Hangouts, Meet, Adwords, Earth, and Allo). Six if you count the Google Advanced Prot
by callahad 8y ago
Google themselves launched or re-launched five Chrome-only sites last year (Hangouts, Meet, Adwords, Earth, and Allo). Six if you count the Google Advanced Protection Program.
Google Flights began blocking Firefox for Android last week, and Google still serves a degraded Search experience to Firefox users on Android (but hey, no AMP).
Despite well-meaning concern from the Chrome team, it's abundantly clear that Google's other product managers do not view interoperability with open, cross-browser standards as a requirement. And while many products eventually gain Firefox support, that support usually only comes months after launch, if at all. To wit, Earth was recently rebranded from "Earth on Web" to "Earth for Chrome," so who knows what's going to happen there.
- ameister14 8y agoWhich I find especially hilarious because there was a period from 2014-2017 when hangouts worked better for me and my colleagues in other browsers
- eat_veggies 8y agoAllo works on Firefox now, but before, I used to set my user-agent to Chrome's and it'd work.
- akoncius 8y agoit's not a definition of working when you need to cheat system in order to get it working.
- Fuxy 8y agoIf the system is cheating you it's only fair you cheat it back... but I get what you mean; most users won't even know to do that or would be interested in doing it. It's shady for Google to lie to their users especially when they imply its the browsers fault and not just their dev team being lazy gits and not validating that features work on Firefox. Because that's the only valid excuse I could come up with that would make sense as to why they don't support it beside being shady that is...
- matt-snider 8y agoAlso noticed this with Google Flights last week. I dislike the way they position it, as if Firefox for Android is insufficient: > Time for an upgrade. Looks like your browser needs a boost. To get the best Google Flights experience, upgrade to one of the supported browsers.
- hexane360 8y agoFunnily enough, it links to a site (http://whatbrowser.org/ http://whatbrowser.org/) that suggests Chrome, Opera, and Firefox as supported browsers.