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"We have noticed that you are using an unsupported browser. Please install Google Chrome."

by brnt 7y ago

bloblaw 7y ago
Reminds me of the "Best viewed with Internet Explorer" tags. When is Chrome going to reinvent Active-X (which only works in Chrome)???
- saxonww 7y ago
  8 years ago? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Native_Client https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Native_Client
  - arbie 7y ago
    Isn't NaCl deprecated now?
    - emn13 7y ago
      Yeah, Active-X is deprecated.
    - takeda 7y ago
      Yeah, WebAssembly replaced it.
  - mintplant 7y ago
    12 years ago, even. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gears_(software) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gears_(software)
    - deleted 7y ago
      [deleted]
  - vlovich123 7y ago
    The major differences being that P/NaCL was: 1. An open standard/implementation 2. Used regular OSS code 3. Was actually written to be secure The effort spurred ASM.js & eventually the WebAssembly standard because of the discomfort of deploying a cutting edge research to billions of people on the web (the initial NaCL implementation was very large & eventually turned out to have security holes, the original research was improved upon but by then the industry had spoken).
takeda 7y ago
This is why using Firefox is so important. We are not there yet, or at least most sites still work fine with FF, but once that changes Google will essentially own the web. There are multiple browsers that also use Blink engine, but they basically just a Chrome with a different skin. I also really miss that Opera gave up on their Presto engine and at the same time decided to not open source it. Yes, the source code leaked, but without license no one will touch it.
- disiplus 7y ago
  i use firefox on android, mostly because of adblocking, and the number of broken websites on firefox is not small, the menu on the mobile website of my bank does not work in firefox. it's shit and i consider changing banks because of that (and other things).
  - pteraspidomorph 7y ago
    Tell them. I had a similar problem a couple of years ago, I logged a complaint and they eventually fixed it. It took a few months, IIRC, but they replied and confirmed that it was fixed.
    - cpeterso 7y ago
      You can also file a bug report with Mozilla's Web Compat team: https://webcompat.com/ https://webcompat.com/ They diagnose websites broken in Firefox and reach out to website developers, fix Firefox bugs, add Firefox UA overrides (see Firefox's about:compat page), and start discussions to resolve ambiguities in web standards. For example, what should happen for a broken image without an alt value? https://webcompat.com/issues/44353#issuecomment-555793736 https://webcompat.com/issues/44353#issuecomment-555793736
    - disiplus 7y ago
      it's related to adblocker, i eventually disabled adblock for that website, but without disabling it it wont work. i know it's not directly a firefox issue, but with mobile chrome not having adblocking it kinda is in that they don't care. it honestly took me to long to figure it because i could not believe that a multi national bank would have this broken website (and that is with new 2018-19 redesign). it's not the first website to not work without js, but you would assume that the bank website would be done in a way where if analytics is not loaded the rest of the webpage would continue to work.
tus88 7y ago
"I notice you are an unsupported website, goodbye".
- teawrecks 7y ago
  For sites that make all their money from ads, this is the preferred response.
  - tejtm 7y ago
    hmmm perhaps we can do better than just leaving, after all we do have these robots to do our bidding.
fmihaila 7y ago
I have transitioned to Brave [1] a few days ago and never looked back. Brilliant browser for my use case. [1] https://brave.com/ https://brave.com/
- BlueTemplar 7y ago
  Still Chromium-based...
smadurange 7y ago
Nowadays if a site does this I simply don't visit it. If it's a really important site (which often does support FF anyway), I just use Edge. Chrome is now like an absolute last resort.
- _jal 7y ago
  I convinced a vendor they needed to stop being Chrome-only. The sales guy was sitting next to me, I loaded the page in FF, and turned to him and said, "Seriously, you want us to install a browser we otherwise refuse to use for this?" It was fixed that week. Unfortunately, this trick does not work very well on non-enterprisey sites or after you cut them a check.
stiray 7y ago
In this case and when website works poorly on firefox: "I have noticed, you are developing unsupported website. I will find my content elsewhere." Already doing that. You can call it "voting with my wallet".
dang 7y ago
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21584720 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21584720.

"We have noticed that you are using an unsupported browser. Please install Google Chrome."

by brnt 7y ago

"We have noticed that you are using an unsupported browser. Please install Google Chrome."

Reminds me of the "Best viewed with Internet Explorer" tags. When is Chrome going to reinvent Active-X (which only works in Chrome)???

saxonww 7y ago
8 years ago? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Native_Client https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Native_Client
- arbie 7y ago
  Isn't NaCl deprecated now?
  - emn13 7y ago
    Yeah, Active-X is deprecated.
  - takeda 7y ago
    Yeah, WebAssembly replaced it.
- mintplant 7y ago
  12 years ago, even. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gears_(software) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gears_(software)
  - deleted 7y ago
    [deleted]
- vlovich123 7y ago
  The major differences being that P/NaCL was: 1. An open standard/implementation 2. Used regular OSS code 3. Was actually written to be secure The effort spurred ASM.js & eventually the WebAssembly standard because of the discomfort of deploying a cutting edge research to billions of people on the web (the initial NaCL implementation was very large & eventually turned out to have security holes, the original research was improved upon but by then the industry had spoken).

takeda 7y ago

This is why using Firefox is so important. We are not there yet, or at least most sites still work fine with FF, but once that changes Google will essentially own the web. There are multiple browsers that also use Blink engine, but they basically just a Chrome with a different skin. I also really miss that Opera gave up on their Presto engine and at the same time decided to not open source it. Yes, the source code leaked, but without license no one will touch it.

disiplus 7y ago
i use firefox on android, mostly because of adblocking, and the number of broken websites on firefox is not small, the menu on the mobile website of my bank does not work in firefox. it's shit and i consider changing banks because of that (and other things).
- pteraspidomorph 7y ago
  Tell them. I had a similar problem a couple of years ago, I logged a complaint and they eventually fixed it. It took a few months, IIRC, but they replied and confirmed that it was fixed.
  - cpeterso 7y ago
    You can also file a bug report with Mozilla's Web Compat team: https://webcompat.com/ https://webcompat.com/ They diagnose websites broken in Firefox and reach out to website developers, fix Firefox bugs, add Firefox UA overrides (see Firefox's about:compat page), and start discussions to resolve ambiguities in web standards. For example, what should happen for a broken image without an alt value? https://webcompat.com/issues/44353#issuecomment-555793736 https://webcompat.com/issues/44353#issuecomment-555793736
  - disiplus 7y ago
    it's related to adblocker, i eventually disabled adblock for that website, but without disabling it it wont work. i know it's not directly a firefox issue, but with mobile chrome not having adblocking it kinda is in that they don't care. it honestly took me to long to figure it because i could not believe that a multi national bank would have this broken website (and that is with new 2018-19 redesign). it's not the first website to not work without js, but you would assume that the bank website would be done in a way where if analytics is not loaded the rest of the webpage would continue to work.

tus88 7y ago

"I notice you are an unsupported website, goodbye".

teawrecks 7y ago
For sites that make all their money from ads, this is the preferred response.
- tejtm 7y ago
  hmmm perhaps we can do better than just leaving, after all we do have these robots to do our bidding.

fmihaila 7y ago

I have transitioned to Brave [1] a few days ago and never looked back. Brilliant browser for my use case. [1] https://brave.com/ https://brave.com/

BlueTemplar 7y ago
Still Chromium-based...

smadurange 7y ago

Nowadays if a site does this I simply don't visit it. If it's a really important site (which often does support FF anyway), I just use Edge. Chrome is now like an absolute last resort.

_jal 7y ago
I convinced a vendor they needed to stop being Chrome-only. The sales guy was sitting next to me, I loaded the page in FF, and turned to him and said, "Seriously, you want us to install a browser we otherwise refuse to use for this?" It was fixed that week. Unfortunately, this trick does not work very well on non-enterprisey sites or after you cut them a check.

stiray 7y ago

In this case and when website works poorly on firefox: "I have noticed, you are developing unsupported website. I will find my content elsewhere." Already doing that. You can call it "voting with my wallet".

dang 7y ago

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21584720 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21584720.