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Meh, just use Firefox for general browsing and Chrome/ium for the one or two things that only work on that.

by vegai_ 4y ago

cube00 4y ago
It's shocking that in 2022 there are still sites that (or have been forced) to only work in Chrome. Looking at you Google search results [1] (but I understand their motivation), however I do have one local company site that refuses to move beyond their loading splash in Firefox. I guess I should be thankful it's no where near as bad as the IE6 days where HTML standards were completely disrespected in the quest for more market share. [1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/google-search-fixer/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/google-search...
- KronisLV 4y ago
  User agent spoofing seems like what should be done on the user's end in those cases, if it's not possible to avoid using such sites for whatever reason. Problems would begin once we'll eventually get Chrome-specific functionality or something that Mozilla won't implement due to a variety of concerns, thus simply breaking sites: https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/ https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/ Then we'll basically be back in the days of IE, except that this time Google will be the ones with the browser monopoly, if we're not already there somewhat - the majority of folks haven't even heard of Firefox.
  - wccrawford 4y ago
    Didn't Google say it was going to make Chrome have the same generic user agent forever in the future? Seems like using that one will be the way to go once that happens.
- kurupt213 4y ago
  My experience is it’s more often proprietary web fronts for corporate microservices than WWW pages If Firefox won’t work, edge almost always will. I’m really trying not to download chrome again. I forgot chromium is an option. Is that not maintained by Google?
dmos62 4y ago
> Chrome/ium for the one or two things that only work on that Firefox has been my daily driver for close to a decade, and I've not run into something that didn't work on it, but worked on Chrome.
- vegai_ 4y ago
  It's mostly some specialized features, like conferencing in Microsoft Teams. Clearly some pieces of web software are optimized only against webkit/chrome. But yeah, not many things outright refuse to work on Firefox these days.

Meh, just use Firefox for general browsing and Chrome/ium for the one or two things that only work on that.

by vegai_ 4y ago

Meh, just use Firefox for general browsing and Chrome/ium for the one or two things that only work on that.

It's shocking that in 2022 there are still sites that (or have been forced) to only work in Chrome. Looking at you Google search results [1] (but I understand their motivation), however I do have one local company site that refuses to move beyond their loading splash in Firefox. I guess I should be thankful it's no where near as bad as the IE6 days where HTML standards were completely disrespected in the quest for more market share. [1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/google-search-fixer/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/google-search...

KronisLV 4y ago
User agent spoofing seems like what should be done on the user's end in those cases, if it's not possible to avoid using such sites for whatever reason. Problems would begin once we'll eventually get Chrome-specific functionality or something that Mozilla won't implement due to a variety of concerns, thus simply breaking sites: https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/ https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/ Then we'll basically be back in the days of IE, except that this time Google will be the ones with the browser monopoly, if we're not already there somewhat - the majority of folks haven't even heard of Firefox.
- wccrawford 4y ago
  Didn't Google say it was going to make Chrome have the same generic user agent forever in the future? Seems like using that one will be the way to go once that happens.
kurupt213 4y ago
My experience is it’s more often proprietary web fronts for corporate microservices than WWW pages If Firefox won’t work, edge almost always will. I’m really trying not to download chrome again. I forgot chromium is an option. Is that not maintained by Google?

dmos62 4y ago

> Chrome/ium for the one or two things that only work on that Firefox has been my daily driver for close to a decade, and I've not run into something that didn't work on it, but worked on Chrome.

vegai_ 4y ago
It's mostly some specialized features, like conferencing in Microsoft Teams. Clearly some pieces of web software are optimized only against webkit/chrome. But yeah, not many things outright refuse to work on Firefox these days.