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I use Roll20, a popular web app for playing tabletop games with others over the internet. It doesn't work in Firefox or Safari; it's the only reason I keep Chro

by _bxg1 6y ago

I use Roll20, a popular web app for playing tabletop games with others over the internet. It doesn't work in Firefox or Safari; it's the only reason I keep Chromium on my machine.

Kalium 6y ago
Really? That's very odd. I use in just fine with Firefox weekly.
- _bxg1 6y ago
  It might only be the video/audio chat that's broken, but I know something about it was broken
  - fenwick67 6y ago
    About 6 months ago I remember it being totally unusable on FF, even without using the AV stuff.
chipperyman573 6y ago
For every example you can find me of a website that doesn't support safari I could find 10 that make exceptions to do so. The point isn't that nobody does it, it's just that most companies who want to make money from the general population (aka most of them) have to. Roll20 is also such a niche thing already it's not really a fair example. People who want to use roll20 will use another browser because they want to play dnd with their friends. Most stores don't have that social aspect.
- _bxg1 6y ago
  My point is that if YouTube stopped working on Firefox because they didn't agree to a new standard Google had invented, lots of people would stop using Firefox. It takes someone who really cares about these issues to bother switching back and forth between two different browsers because you want to use a non-Chromium for most things but have to use Chromium for a couple of things. The vast majority would just say "well, whatever" and switch completely.
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spc476 6y ago
I stopped using Roll20 but switched to Zoom chat. Zoom chat has much better video chat support, also has a private chat function, and for our game, we could do without the "whiteboard" and the computerized dice rolling. It also would kill my network connection. It was a horrible experience.
aidenn0 6y ago
I've been using Roll20 on Firefox for 4ish years. (I was a Kickstarter backer, but I'm not sure when I switched to Firefox from chromium).
mohitk05 6y ago
And this from Slack: https://twitter.com/SlackHQ/status/958645632620748800?s=20 https://twitter.com/SlackHQ/status/958645632620748800?s=20 And Skype: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20818750 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20818750
franga2000 6y ago
I've used Roll20 a fair amount in Firefox and the only times I've had to pull out Chromium it turned out the the bug was present there too. Which things specifically don't work for you? (gf knows one of the devs, so I might try to poke at them to fix it)

by _bxg1 6y ago

I use Roll20, a popular web app for playing tabletop games with others over the internet. It doesn't work in Firefox or Safari; it's the only reason I keep Chromium on my machine.

Kalium 6y ago

Really? That's very odd. I use in just fine with Firefox weekly.

_bxg1 6y ago
It might only be the video/audio chat that's broken, but I know something about it was broken
- fenwick67 6y ago
  About 6 months ago I remember it being totally unusable on FF, even without using the AV stuff.

chipperyman573 6y ago

For every example you can find me of a website that doesn't support safari I could find 10 that make exceptions to do so. The point isn't that nobody does it, it's just that most companies who want to make money from the general population (aka most of them) have to. Roll20 is also such a niche thing already it's not really a fair example. People who want to use roll20 will use another browser because they want to play dnd with their friends. Most stores don't have that social aspect.

_bxg1 6y ago
My point is that if YouTube stopped working on Firefox because they didn't agree to a new standard Google had invented, lots of people would stop using Firefox. It takes someone who really cares about these issues to bother switching back and forth between two different browsers because you want to use a non-Chromium for most things but have to use Chromium for a couple of things. The vast majority would just say "well, whatever" and switch completely.
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spc476 6y ago

I stopped using Roll20 but switched to Zoom chat. Zoom chat has much better video chat support, also has a private chat function, and for our game, we could do without the "whiteboard" and the computerized dice rolling. It also would kill my network connection. It was a horrible experience.

aidenn0 6y ago

I've been using Roll20 on Firefox for 4ish years. (I was a Kickstarter backer, but I'm not sure when I switched to Firefox from chromium).

mohitk05 6y ago

And this from Slack: https://twitter.com/SlackHQ/status/958645632620748800?s=20 https://twitter.com/SlackHQ/status/958645632620748800?s=20 And Skype: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20818750 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20818750

franga2000 6y ago

I've used Roll20 a fair amount in Firefox and the only times I've had to pull out Chromium it turned out the the bug was present there too. Which things specifically don't work for you? (gf knows one of the devs, so I might try to poke at them to fix it)