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With Chrome taking the lion's share of the browser user market, you end up with a lot of sites that work well in Chrome but not so well with other browsers. So

With Chrome taking the lion's share of the browser user market, you end up with a lot of sites that work well in Chrome but not so well with other browsers. So even if you use Firefox as your main driver, you'll still want to have a Chromium-based browser as a backup. Now the problem for Android users is that, in light of this news, there's now one less (seemingly) viable option if you're using Google Play services. If you're using F-droid, however, you have Bromite and ungoogled-Chromium as prime candidates.

SSLy 6y ago
Somehow Samsung Internet and Vivaldi, both closed-source chromium skins available on the Play Store, have always sparked more trust in me than the seemingly open Brave ever did.
- stjohnswarts 6y ago
  Because they don't have convoluted policies. You get what a user might expect rather than a bunch of rigamarole.
ifdefdebug 6y ago
> So even if you use Firefox as your main driver, you'll still want to have a Chromium-based browser as a backup. Nope. When something doesnt work in my FF then good bye. I cant be bothered to do extra work like switching browsers for to support their incompetence. It'been rare though.
- cerberusss 6y ago
  Very rarely, I fall back to Safari because I'm on Mac. But on my laptop, I don't have anything installed from Google. It's just not necessary.
- stjohnswarts 6y ago
  I'm the same way unless it's a company site. I even changed banks when they "upgraded" their site and it was no longer FF compatible. I figured if they couldn't stick to web standards they might not stick to security standards either. Sometimes I will change the user agent to chrome though in emergency situations and that sometimes fixes things.
DangerousPie 6y ago
> With Chrome taking the lion's share of the browser user market, you end up with a lot of sites that work well in Chrome but not so well with other browsers. TBH the only sites where I have noticed this are Google sites like Hangouts and YouTube. But even those work fine, they just seem to use quite a lot more CPU than I think they should. I do have Chrome as a backup in case something doesn't work, but I can't remember the last time I had to use that.
nelblu 6y ago
"If you're using F-droid, however, you have Bromite and ungoogled-Chromium as prime candidates." I can't seem to find bromite on fdroid. Why it not there anymore?
missblit 6y ago
I've honestly never had any major problems with sites working on Chrome but not Firefox, and I use both on a regular basis. The only cases that I couldn't trace back to an extension were: 1. a major news site thinking Firefox was in incognito mode, and refusing to display any contents. 2. Google Stadia

SSLy 6y ago

Somehow Samsung Internet and Vivaldi, both closed-source chromium skins available on the Play Store, have always sparked more trust in me than the seemingly open Brave ever did.

stjohnswarts 6y ago
Because they don't have convoluted policies. You get what a user might expect rather than a bunch of rigamarole.

ifdefdebug 6y ago

> So even if you use Firefox as your main driver, you'll still want to have a Chromium-based browser as a backup. Nope. When something doesnt work in my FF then good bye. I cant be bothered to do extra work like switching browsers for to support their incompetence. It'been rare though.

cerberusss 6y ago
Very rarely, I fall back to Safari because I'm on Mac. But on my laptop, I don't have anything installed from Google. It's just not necessary.
stjohnswarts 6y ago
I'm the same way unless it's a company site. I even changed banks when they "upgraded" their site and it was no longer FF compatible. I figured if they couldn't stick to web standards they might not stick to security standards either. Sometimes I will change the user agent to chrome though in emergency situations and that sometimes fixes things.

DangerousPie 6y ago

> With Chrome taking the lion's share of the browser user market, you end up with a lot of sites that work well in Chrome but not so well with other browsers. TBH the only sites where I have noticed this are Google sites like Hangouts and YouTube. But even those work fine, they just seem to use quite a lot more CPU than I think they should. I do have Chrome as a backup in case something doesn't work, but I can't remember the last time I had to use that.

nelblu 6y ago

"If you're using F-droid, however, you have Bromite and ungoogled-Chromium as prime candidates." I can't seem to find bromite on fdroid. Why it not there anymore?

missblit 6y ago

I've honestly never had any major problems with sites working on Chrome but not Firefox, and I use both on a regular basis. The only cases that I couldn't trace back to an extension were: 1. a major news site thinking Firefox was in incognito mode, and refusing to display any contents. 2. Google Stadia