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Which specific websites?

mrazomor 3y ago
I hit a few in the past. But, I'm failing to find any of them at the moment... Maybe I should give Firefox mobile another try. It could be that my baseline was the Chrome rendering, so any discrepancy was classified as "it's broken".
- zonkerdonker 3y ago
  Adblock on a mobile browser is a gamechanger. I wouldn't go back even if a quarter of sites were broken on FF mobile (and they aren't, I've been using it for 2 full years desktop and mobile, and only found a single compatibility issue - a restaurant's take-out ordering page)
- paledot 3y ago
  Honestly, in this day and age, any discrepancy from Chromium/WebKit is probably broken. But if we're talking about a few pixels' difference here and there, plenty of sites are more broken than that on every browser. I have encountered a couple of (financial, natch) sites that insist on a Chromium-based browser in order to do vital operations like download statements. Switching browsers for those few exceptions is annoying, but not a deal-breaker (for me).
  - Semaphor 3y ago
    Have you tried a user-agent switcher? I think you can even set them up to always have a specific agent depending on the domain. Chances are, they don’t need chromium, they are just written by (even more than you’d think) incompetent people.
mrazomor 3y ago
Found one! Google.com ... Try googling "vti stock" (or any similar rich ui query) on chrome mobile and Firefox mobile.
- ZeroGravitas 3y ago
  Works for me. What do you see different?
  - mrazomor 3y ago
    Chrome gives me the graph, and rich stock data. Firefox gives a minimum amount of data (vanilla install, no addons). See: - https://ibb.co/gJQhTbK https://ibb.co/gJQhTbK - https://ibb.co/bJZ7JVR https://ibb.co/bJZ7JVR I get the same behavior for the people queries like "Barack Obama". (Android 14, Pixel 4a)
    - Larrikin 3y ago
      Because Google intentionally breaks it on non Chrome browsers so that you get a worse experience. Install the Google Search Fixer from the Firefox add on store and it looks exactly the same.
    - ZeroGravitas 3y ago
      I see the graph exactly like that in Firefox on Android. edit: turns out I have the search fixer add-on that is mentioned in a sibling comment installed.

I hit a few in the past. But, I'm failing to find any of them at the moment... Maybe I should give Firefox mobile another try. It could be that my baseline was the Chrome rendering, so any discrepancy was classified as "it's broken".

zonkerdonker 3y ago
Adblock on a mobile browser is a gamechanger. I wouldn't go back even if a quarter of sites were broken on FF mobile (and they aren't, I've been using it for 2 full years desktop and mobile, and only found a single compatibility issue - a restaurant's take-out ordering page)
paledot 3y ago
Honestly, in this day and age, any discrepancy from Chromium/WebKit is probably broken. But if we're talking about a few pixels' difference here and there, plenty of sites are more broken than that on every browser. I have encountered a couple of (financial, natch) sites that insist on a Chromium-based browser in order to do vital operations like download statements. Switching browsers for those few exceptions is annoying, but not a deal-breaker (for me).
- Semaphor 3y ago
  Have you tried a user-agent switcher? I think you can even set them up to always have a specific agent depending on the domain. Chances are, they don’t need chromium, they are just written by (even more than you’d think) incompetent people.

mrazomor 3y ago

Found one! Google.com ... Try googling "vti stock" (or any similar rich ui query) on chrome mobile and Firefox mobile.

ZeroGravitas 3y ago
Works for me. What do you see different?
- mrazomor 3y ago
  Chrome gives me the graph, and rich stock data. Firefox gives a minimum amount of data (vanilla install, no addons). See: - https://ibb.co/gJQhTbK https://ibb.co/gJQhTbK - https://ibb.co/bJZ7JVR https://ibb.co/bJZ7JVR I get the same behavior for the people queries like "Barack Obama". (Android 14, Pixel 4a)
  - Larrikin 3y ago
    Because Google intentionally breaks it on non Chrome browsers so that you get a worse experience. Install the Google Search Fixer from the Firefox add on store and it looks exactly the same.
  - ZeroGravitas 3y ago
    I see the graph exactly like that in Firefox on Android. edit: turns out I have the search fixer add-on that is mentioned in a sibling comment installed.