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They - break compability or make their sites slow in other browsers, sometimes in so interesting ways that it makes it hard to defend as just incompetence. Edi

They - break compability or make their sites slow in other browsers, sometimes in so interesting ways that it makes it hard to defend as just incompetence. Edit, example: didn't they go out of their way to find a way to make YouTube crawl in Firefox while performing well in Chrome a few months ago? IIRC instead of doing it the new straightforward way that was supported everywhere they went with a solution that was so backwards that it was already deprecated in Chrome as well or something? - make banners on the front page of the worlds most famous web property, urging people to change

hannob 6y ago
I'm using Firefox and the only service that I have to use on a regular basis that does not really work in Firefox is actually Microsoft Teams. This is quite ironic given all the "Google killed Microsoft's own browser engine" stories.
- happymellon 6y ago
  I find Excel in Firefox to be quite broken. Google is much better at working than Microsoft.
mmcnl 6y ago
You're nitpicking. The situation is a night and day difference compared to 10-20 years ago.
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Snarwin 6y ago
The YouTube thing was back in 2018: https://www.cnet.com/news/mozilla-exec-says-google-slowed-youtube-down-on-non-chrome-browsers/ https://www.cnet.com/news/mozilla-exec-says-google-slowed-yo...
_flux 6y ago
> break compability or make their sites slow in other browsers "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" > make banners on the front page of the worlds most famous web property Well, can't argue with that!
- skinkestek 6y ago
  Do you really think the individuals at Google are stupid? I do not think so.
  - _flux 6y ago
    Everyone has the power to be stupid at times. Maybe other people have the power to be brilliant times. But the ratio of these times vary per person.
  - happymellon 6y ago
    Of course they can be. For example Stadia. Now Stadia Studios might not seem like a big deal, I mean who uses it? Not many people bought into it because no one trusts Google to keep anything alive. Consequently, Google Cloud is great but I know that without question we picked AWS and Azure because of appearances of Google publically killing and not supporting their products. People at Google absolutely do stupid things and damage their reputation.

hannob 6y ago

I'm using Firefox and the only service that I have to use on a regular basis that does not really work in Firefox is actually Microsoft Teams. This is quite ironic given all the "Google killed Microsoft's own browser engine" stories.

happymellon 6y ago
I find Excel in Firefox to be quite broken. Google is much better at working than Microsoft.

mmcnl 6y ago

You're nitpicking. The situation is a night and day difference compared to 10-20 years ago.

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Snarwin 6y ago

The YouTube thing was back in 2018: https://www.cnet.com/news/mozilla-exec-says-google-slowed-youtube-down-on-non-chrome-browsers/ https://www.cnet.com/news/mozilla-exec-says-google-slowed-yo...

_flux 6y ago

> break compability or make their sites slow in other browsers "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" > make banners on the front page of the worlds most famous web property Well, can't argue with that!

skinkestek 6y ago
Do you really think the individuals at Google are stupid? I do not think so.
- _flux 6y ago
  Everyone has the power to be stupid at times. Maybe other people have the power to be brilliant times. But the ratio of these times vary per person.
- happymellon 6y ago
  Of course they can be. For example Stadia. Now Stadia Studios might not seem like a big deal, I mean who uses it? Not many people bought into it because no one trusts Google to keep anything alive. Consequently, Google Cloud is great but I know that without question we picked AWS and Azure because of appearances of Google publically killing and not supporting their products. People at Google absolutely do stupid things and damage their reputation.