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>many properties that don't/didn't work or work correctly with Firefox could be made to magically work if you changed your user agent to Chrome. Pretty damning

by dTal 5y ago

>many properties that don't/didn't work or work correctly with Firefox could be made to magically work if you changed your user agent to Chrome. Pretty damning that Google was never slammed with a huge fine for anti-competitive behavior for that.

WhyNotHugo 5y ago
Chrome is just the new IE. I've been saying this for over a decade, and facts like just continue to make this clear.
- treis 5y ago
  Except that chromium is open source. Plenty of alternate browsers exist and at least one has big backing (Edge). It's not a bad thing for there to be only one HTML & JavaScript engine that you have to deal with. In fact it's the opposite. The dominance of Chrome has made development much easier.
- recursive 5y ago
  I've been hearing this for the last decade also. I wonder if those saying it were around for the dominance of IE. Chrome is like the opposite of IE. IE didn't ship an update for like 6 years. Chrome ships updates every ~6 weeks.
  - timw4mail 5y ago
    It updates too often, introducing yet more APIs that will be "deprecated" and re-implemented, forcing yet more incompatabilites.
    - recursive 5y ago
      If you use the standardized ones, you won't have much to worry about. That wasn't the case with IE.