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I've been using FireFox for about 4.5 years now, but I have to have Chrome installed for a few reasons unfortunately. - Some websites still will just not work

by jjice 3y ago

I've been using FireFox for about 4.5 years now, but I have to have Chrome installed for a few reasons unfortunately. - Some websites still will just not work in FireFox. It's not super common anymore, but if I sense something is fishy, I pop open the console and see some strange error and swap over to Chrome. Things will just work then. All extensions disabled even. I even ran into this on Vanguard's website, albeit for some obscure forms. - When I worked at a company that had a larger web app presence, I would have to test in Chrome. That's a given, but my Chrome counterparts did not do the same with FireFox. I would fairly regularly (few times a quarter) find things that were completely broked on FireFox. All that said, I don't really care about my choice in browser very much, but I'd rather support Mozilla over Google still. Especially since they're the only non-Chromium and v8 engine out there aside from Safari, which is also owned by a massive for profit company. I'd like to help support a more open web, even if it's just a little bit.

bradly 3y ago
> Some websites still will just not work in FireFox I run into this as well, but I just use Safari as my backup browser and that usually is good enough. The only thing I still need to use Chrome for is my Nest thermostat.
vehemenz 3y ago
> Especially since they're the only non-Chromium and v8 engine out there aside from Safari, which is also owned by a massive for profit company. You know, it's not necessarily a bad thing that another enormous company is competing with Chrome. It might be less than ideal than Firefox having Safari's share, but it still eats at Google's monopoly more effectively.
angra_mainyu 3y ago
Unfortunately I had to move over to Vivaldi after using Firefox more than a decade due to performance. On Linux, it consumes so much memory it actually slows down my machine...

by jjice 3y ago

bradly 3y ago

> Some websites still will just not work in FireFox I run into this as well, but I just use Safari as my backup browser and that usually is good enough. The only thing I still need to use Chrome for is my Nest thermostat.

vehemenz 3y ago

> Especially since they're the only non-Chromium and v8 engine out there aside from Safari, which is also owned by a massive for profit company. You know, it's not necessarily a bad thing that another enormous company is competing with Chrome. It might be less than ideal than Firefox having Safari's share, but it still eats at Google's monopoly more effectively.

angra_mainyu 3y ago

Unfortunately I had to move over to Vivaldi after using Firefox more than a decade due to performance. On Linux, it consumes so much memory it actually slows down my machine...