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>It's not Chrome's fault for third party developers being lazy and not supporting Firefox. What if it's Google themselves? From my original post: > [...] and

by lxgr 2y ago

>It's not Chrome's fault for third party developers being lazy and not supporting Firefox. What if it's Google themselves? From my original post: > [...] and that often includes Google sites/apps

fellowniusmonk 2y ago
[Citation Needed] What google site or service requires Chrome?
- nasmorn 2y ago
  Meet is as shitty on Safari as Google feels they can get away with
- lxgr 2y ago
  "AI overview" (which I happen to find really useful) was only available on Chrome and Safari for at least a few months. Sure, it's a lab experiment or whatever, but these are just words, and the effect is that I have to use a different browser to be able to use them, for absolutely no technical reason. (The LLM is running on Google's servers and provides plaintext. I think Firefox could handle that.) Just visit this on Firefox if you want to see for yourself, including a big "install Chrome" call to action: https://labs.google.com/search/install https://labs.google.com/search/install
  - Kiro 2y ago
    Doesn't really support your statement then.
- thayne 2y ago
  I don't know of anything that is completely broken, but some functionality requiers chrome: On Google Docs, paste as markdown, copy and paste from menus, paste without formatting, etc. only works on chrome. This functionality could be done with standard APIs, but instead google uses a hidden, pre-installed extension to implement it. Offline mode doesn't work on firefox for either gmail or google docs. Google doodles don't show up on Firefox Mobile, unless you spoof a chrome user agent. Youtube has repeatedly had serious performance problems on Firefox.
- tjpnz 2y ago
  There are less options for screen sharing on Google Meet.
spoaceman7777 2y ago
Are you objecting to single sign on or something? Or some browser extension that is only published for Chrome? What are you talking about?
- lxgr 2y ago
  Some Google sites explicitly say "install Chrome to use this", e.g. this one: https://labs.google.com/search/install https://labs.google.com/search/install

by lxgr 2y ago

>It's not Chrome's fault for third party developers being lazy and not supporting Firefox. What if it's Google themselves? From my original post: > [...] and that often includes Google sites/apps

fellowniusmonk 2y ago

[Citation Needed] What google site or service requires Chrome?

nasmorn 2y ago
Meet is as shitty on Safari as Google feels they can get away with
lxgr 2y ago
"AI overview" (which I happen to find really useful) was only available on Chrome and Safari for at least a few months. Sure, it's a lab experiment or whatever, but these are just words, and the effect is that I have to use a different browser to be able to use them, for absolutely no technical reason. (The LLM is running on Google's servers and provides plaintext. I think Firefox could handle that.) Just visit this on Firefox if you want to see for yourself, including a big "install Chrome" call to action: https://labs.google.com/search/install https://labs.google.com/search/install
- Kiro 2y ago
  Doesn't really support your statement then.
thayne 2y ago
I don't know of anything that is completely broken, but some functionality requiers chrome: On Google Docs, paste as markdown, copy and paste from menus, paste without formatting, etc. only works on chrome. This functionality could be done with standard APIs, but instead google uses a hidden, pre-installed extension to implement it. Offline mode doesn't work on firefox for either gmail or google docs. Google doodles don't show up on Firefox Mobile, unless you spoof a chrome user agent. Youtube has repeatedly had serious performance problems on Firefox.
tjpnz 2y ago
There are less options for screen sharing on Google Meet.

spoaceman7777 2y ago

Are you objecting to single sign on or something? Or some browser extension that is only published for Chrome? What are you talking about?

lxgr 2y ago
Some Google sites explicitly say "install Chrome to use this", e.g. this one: https://labs.google.com/search/install https://labs.google.com/search/install