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Tbh. I don't get the negatives about Firefox. I have to use Chrome for App development and have been using it a little more in the last months. I cannot see why

by wobfan 2y ago

Tbh. I don't get the negatives about Firefox. I have to use Chrome for App development and have been using it a little more in the last months. I cannot see why I should prefer it over Firefox. It works well, has (or soon used to have) good extension support and is smooth, but so is Firefox. Like, I could not say one single thing that I prefer in Chrome. And all this while I have to ignore the single biggest negative about Chrome - that it's "run" by Google.

ddfs123 2y ago
Google Meet, Slack Web, for example, are notirious for being Firefox-hostile. Though I manage fine with User-Agent
- wobfan 2y ago
  Slack works fine afaik, have been using it for a few years, but I can imagine Meet not working. I remember having switch to chrome for that.
  - ddfs123 2y ago
    Slack's huddle just straight up block Firefox for me ( 130.0.1, Fedora ).
- saratogacx 2y ago
  Google meet on FF used to be almost a no-op but for the past year or so it has operated without any real issue. Screen sharing is sometimes off when iterating windows but that is pretty minor. (on Windows anyway)
  - ddfs123 2y ago
    I got some message like "XML error" and just denied out of meeting lots of time.
aucisson_masque 2y ago
Personally it's more about the user interface. Searching history for instance is a mess on Firefox, you got it in collection tab and in history menu. Then if you click on yesterday, it won't sort by the hour at which I browsed it yesterday but at the most recent date so that the sort order is messed up with the stuff you browsed today, and so on, and so on. You say you're a developer. I had to tweak my company website myself, not knowing anything about css, html, JavaScript, chrome developer tools were intuitive enough. Firefox developer tools? even years later, now than I understand well website development, I often still can't figure out how to do stuff.
- wobfan 2y ago
  Oh that’s weird! I have been using Firefox dev tools a lot, also for a lot of development, and it worked perfectly, and to me it made perfect sense! But maybe it would have been even easier on Chrome, haha
  - aucisson_masque 2y ago
    Maybe it depends what you are most used to. But personally I started completely fresh, tried both and chrome was more intuitive. At least as much as a développer tool can be to a non développer

by wobfan 2y ago

ddfs123 2y ago

Google Meet, Slack Web, for example, are notirious for being Firefox-hostile. Though I manage fine with User-Agent

wobfan 2y ago
Slack works fine afaik, have been using it for a few years, but I can imagine Meet not working. I remember having switch to chrome for that.
- ddfs123 2y ago
  Slack's huddle just straight up block Firefox for me ( 130.0.1, Fedora ).
saratogacx 2y ago
Google meet on FF used to be almost a no-op but for the past year or so it has operated without any real issue. Screen sharing is sometimes off when iterating windows but that is pretty minor. (on Windows anyway)
- ddfs123 2y ago
  I got some message like "XML error" and just denied out of meeting lots of time.

aucisson_masque 2y ago

Personally it's more about the user interface. Searching history for instance is a mess on Firefox, you got it in collection tab and in history menu. Then if you click on yesterday, it won't sort by the hour at which I browsed it yesterday but at the most recent date so that the sort order is messed up with the stuff you browsed today, and so on, and so on. You say you're a developer. I had to tweak my company website myself, not knowing anything about css, html, JavaScript, chrome developer tools were intuitive enough. Firefox developer tools? even years later, now than I understand well website development, I often still can't figure out how to do stuff.

wobfan 2y ago
Oh that’s weird! I have been using Firefox dev tools a lot, also for a lot of development, and it worked perfectly, and to me it made perfect sense! But maybe it would have been even easier on Chrome, haha
- aucisson_masque 2y ago
  Maybe it depends what you are most used to. But personally I started completely fresh, tried both and chrome was more intuitive. At least as much as a développer tool can be to a non développer