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Are there Chrome-only webapps you use that don't just work with a User-Agent switcher?

shrikant 7y ago
Most Google apps only just about "work" on Firefox. They're clearly optimised for Chromium and it shows. I use Firefox for all my browsing needs except for Google apps, for which I keep an install of Vivaldi around. I only really fire up Chrome if some stupid internal workplace app refuses to work on anything else. It truly is the new IE.
- zepearl 7y ago
  > It truly is the new IE Funny, and true at least in the company I'm working for (officially supported browsers are primarily IE11 and optionally Chrome). A colleague told me a few months ago that Firefox was not supported because it did not support some Windows "policies" (Windows or Active Directory? Not sure, no clue about that stuff) but that Firefox was going to support them soon... .
  - shawnz 7y ago
    Likely they did indeed mean Group Policy in the Active Directory sense, although that's been supported in Firefox for over a year now
    - zepearl 7y ago
      Thx!
  - arthurfm 7y ago
    Firefox 60 was the first release with official Group Policy support [1]. Starting from version 64 you could also configure Firefox for macOS using configuration profiles [2]. Both the ADMX templates for Windows and preference .plist for macOS are available from GitHub [3]. The full list of configurable preferences can be found on SearchFox.org [4]. As of Firefox 67 there are quite a lot of settings that can be managed now. Certainly enough for Firefox to be deployed in enterprise environments. There was also a really interesting talk at MacADUK 2019 by Mike Kapley on the work Mozilla has done so far to support enterprise deployment [5]. [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1433136 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1433136 [2] https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates/blob/master/mac/org.mozilla.firefox.plist https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates/blob/master/mac/... [3] https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates [4] https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/components/enterprisepolicies https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/compone... [5] https://youtu.be/jB_5h4ihih4 https://youtu.be/jB_5h4ihih4
- bashinator 7y ago
  For example, I cannot copy and paste text in Google Docs in Firefox.
  - roca 7y ago
    Using the keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V) works for me on Linux.
whizzkid 7y ago
Most of them probably will work on other browsers with user-agent switching. But i do not want to hack it and risk having a problem in middle of my work. They can easily inject something that is only available in chrome and there goes my video conference :)
themattress 7y ago
Not quite the same thing and I know it’s not fully rolled out yet, but I enable u2f support in Firefox and haven’t had any issues with my Yubikey... except when I try to add a new Yubikey To my gmail account in Firefox it makes me switch to Chrome because “u2f isn’t supported”. At least let me try and if it fails I’ll file an issue with FF so they can fix it and improve instead of locking me out with half-truths.
- floatboth 7y ago
  In the latest release (67), Google U2F registration should work out of the box.

Most Google apps only just about "work" on Firefox. They're clearly optimised for Chromium and it shows. I use Firefox for all my browsing needs except for Google apps, for which I keep an install of Vivaldi around. I only really fire up Chrome if some stupid internal workplace app refuses to work on anything else. It truly is the new IE.

zepearl 7y ago
> It truly is the new IE Funny, and true at least in the company I'm working for (officially supported browsers are primarily IE11 and optionally Chrome). A colleague told me a few months ago that Firefox was not supported because it did not support some Windows "policies" (Windows or Active Directory? Not sure, no clue about that stuff) but that Firefox was going to support them soon... .
- shawnz 7y ago
  Likely they did indeed mean Group Policy in the Active Directory sense, although that's been supported in Firefox for over a year now
  - zepearl 7y ago
    Thx!
- arthurfm 7y ago
  Firefox 60 was the first release with official Group Policy support [1]. Starting from version 64 you could also configure Firefox for macOS using configuration profiles [2]. Both the ADMX templates for Windows and preference .plist for macOS are available from GitHub [3]. The full list of configurable preferences can be found on SearchFox.org [4]. As of Firefox 67 there are quite a lot of settings that can be managed now. Certainly enough for Firefox to be deployed in enterprise environments. There was also a really interesting talk at MacADUK 2019 by Mike Kapley on the work Mozilla has done so far to support enterprise deployment [5]. [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1433136 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1433136 [2] https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates/blob/master/mac/org.mozilla.firefox.plist https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates/blob/master/mac/... [3] https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates [4] https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/components/enterprisepolicies https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/compone... [5] https://youtu.be/jB_5h4ihih4 https://youtu.be/jB_5h4ihih4
bashinator 7y ago
For example, I cannot copy and paste text in Google Docs in Firefox.
- roca 7y ago
  Using the keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V) works for me on Linux.

whizzkid 7y ago

Most of them probably will work on other browsers with user-agent switching. But i do not want to hack it and risk having a problem in middle of my work. They can easily inject something that is only available in chrome and there goes my video conference :)

themattress 7y ago

Not quite the same thing and I know it’s not fully rolled out yet, but I enable u2f support in Firefox and haven’t had any issues with my Yubikey... except when I try to add a new Yubikey To my gmail account in Firefox it makes me switch to Chrome because “u2f isn’t supported”. At least let me try and if it fails I’ll file an issue with FF so they can fix it and improve instead of locking me out with half-truths.

floatboth 7y ago
In the latest release (67), Google U2F registration should work out of the box.