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Google has never, ever, required that I use Chrome to access any of their sites and services.

by DaiPlusPlus 5y ago

DaltonCoffee 5y ago
Google Earth Studio is Chrome only
tomjen3 5y ago
I can't use Google meet with Firefox.
- anothernewdude 5y ago
  I can
  - hiyer 5y ago
    Google meet works with Firefox, but the filters like blur background, etc don't.
    - prirai 5y ago
      For google services I use ungoogled Chromium.
skeeter2020 5y ago
uhm, many of their services work poorly or not at all with Firefox; how is that not "requiring chrome?"
- hobos_delight 5y ago
  I've happily used Firefox on Windows and Linux to access all of my Google services, without issue, for years. Can you expand on which services don't work with ff? At Google there is a requirement to use Chrome - due to certain browser extensions - but that doesn't impact any of the services they provide.
  - Rebelgecko 5y ago
    There isn't a requirement to use Chrome at Google Source: work at Google and used Firefox until the latest UI refresh
    - hobos_delight 5y ago
      There was when I was there. How does BeyondCorp work with ff?
      - Rebelgecko 5y ago
        You can manually configure the browser to point it at the BeyondCorp proxy
  - whycombagator 5y ago
    Sheets and gmail were painful for me with FF. Moved to Brave, sadly
    - NikolaeVarius 5y ago
      I use Gmail and Sheets just fine with Firefox. I haven't had any issues with it outside of the slowness of the app that I already notice in Chrome
    - prirai 5y ago
      You could use two browsers as well.
  - cute_boi 5y ago
    This is lie tbh. Chrome was caught with using some shadow dom api in firefox to slow it down. And Google meet transmit more data in firefox than using chrome which means google has added something in chrome. Also google drive doesn't work properly in firefox like it can't download multiple file. But if i use chrome/brave it works properly. And Gmail wont allow you to login from different browser in name of security reason. They do many thing to shift user from firefox to chrome/chromium browser for many reason.
- prirai 5y ago
  Ditto, been experiencing the same. Using ungoogled chromium for now.
hammyhavoc 5y ago
Ever tried to use Gmail offline? I could go on.

Google has never, ever, required that I use Chrome to access any of their sites and services.

DaltonCoffee 5y ago

Google Earth Studio is Chrome only

tomjen3 5y ago

I can't use Google meet with Firefox.

anothernewdude 5y ago
I can
- hiyer 5y ago
  Google meet works with Firefox, but the filters like blur background, etc don't.
  - prirai 5y ago
    For google services I use ungoogled Chromium.

skeeter2020 5y ago

uhm, many of their services work poorly or not at all with Firefox; how is that not "requiring chrome?"

hobos_delight 5y ago
I've happily used Firefox on Windows and Linux to access all of my Google services, without issue, for years. Can you expand on which services don't work with ff? At Google there is a requirement to use Chrome - due to certain browser extensions - but that doesn't impact any of the services they provide.
- Rebelgecko 5y ago
  There isn't a requirement to use Chrome at Google Source: work at Google and used Firefox until the latest UI refresh
  - hobos_delight 5y ago
    There was when I was there. How does BeyondCorp work with ff?
    - Rebelgecko 5y ago
      You can manually configure the browser to point it at the BeyondCorp proxy
- whycombagator 5y ago
  Sheets and gmail were painful for me with FF. Moved to Brave, sadly
  - NikolaeVarius 5y ago
    I use Gmail and Sheets just fine with Firefox. I haven't had any issues with it outside of the slowness of the app that I already notice in Chrome
  - prirai 5y ago
    You could use two browsers as well.
- cute_boi 5y ago
  This is lie tbh. Chrome was caught with using some shadow dom api in firefox to slow it down. And Google meet transmit more data in firefox than using chrome which means google has added something in chrome. Also google drive doesn't work properly in firefox like it can't download multiple file. But if i use chrome/brave it works properly. And Gmail wont allow you to login from different browser in name of security reason. They do many thing to shift user from firefox to chrome/chromium browser for many reason.
prirai 5y ago
Ditto, been experiencing the same. Using ungoogled chromium for now.

hammyhavoc 5y ago

Ever tried to use Gmail offline? I could go on.