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It's probably one of the most obscure reasons, but keep Chromium around because it's the only web browser with a JIT-backed javascript engine on ppc64le. Firefo
by spijdar 6y ago
It's probably one of the most obscure reasons, but keep Chromium around because it's the only web browser with a JIT-backed javascript engine on ppc64le. Firefox has to run everything interpreted, which is actually fine for most sites, but bogs down on JS heavy web app type things.
On a much less niche side of things, a lot of web apps like Teams, Zoom, and probably many others are only fully functional on Chromium, thanks to WebRTC specifics and some video encoding stuff that's only on Chromium. Don't know the details, but things like video and desktop streaming are limited to Chromium.
That could very well be an artificially enforced restriction, but I don't think it is. I think firefox is moving towards feature parity with Chrome on this one, I hope so anyway.
- MegaDeKay 6y agoSlack calling doesn't work on FF as well. This + Teams + Zoom is a big gap, especially in these COVID times.
- sanxiyn 6y agoSomewhat ironically, Google Meet works very well for video streaming and desktop sharing on Firefox. So I think Firefox isn't missing anything.
- saagarjha 6y agoIt's kind of sad that WebKit doesn't support it…