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Why Bother With uBlock Being Blocked In Chrome? Now Is The Best Time To Switch To Firefox (tuta.com)

submitted 7 months ago by L4s to c/technology

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Why Bother With uBlock Being Blocked In Chrome? Now Is The Best Time To Switch To Firefox::Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs.

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[–] agent_flounder 78 points 7 months ago (4 children)

That was Internet Explorer 20 years ago and look where we are now.

I personally can't remember the last time I had issues with a site on Firefox in the last few years since I switched.

[–] rambaroo 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

The teams web app was borked for me on Firefox at one point. Idk if it's still like that. Also Google Chat or whatever tf it's called now disables a bunch of features on Firefox.

Still worth it to switch. 99% of websites work just fine. They basically have to intentionally design sites to not work with FF.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Ah yes wtf is Teams doing!? Some arbitrary features are blocked on Firefox, like you can't direct call someone but you can be part of a group call 🤪

But I don't think Microsoft's online suite is a reference, most of it feels buggy or bloated at best.

[–] Deckweiss 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Makes sense since the browser microsoft pushes on it's users is chrome based.

Just spoof the user agent and it works fine.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Those are literally restrictions placed by the site in question, not a limitation of Firefox. Get a user agent changer, and set the user agent to the “required” browser, and ~magically~ it will work!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

When I was using Firefox I felt like spoofing user agent was essential to make websites work the way they were supposed to. I could loose some rounded corners here and there but it was still better that some features completely missing

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Chrome turning into Internet Explorer was something that I didn't foresee some years ago.

Heck they have literally done that with Edge lol.

[–] eager_eagle 6 points 7 months ago

Been using it for years, and the only few times I had issues was due to worthless websites creating artificial obstacles with an "unsupported browser/OS" page or banner rather than something actually breaking for being incompatible.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Discord and spotify web versions don’t work on Firefox for me. On discord in can’t connect to a call and Spotify doesn’t play songs or it takes a long time after pressing play for the song to start playing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Both work flawlessly for me. In fact, discord on Firefox works much better than the standalone app specifically for calls.

Sounds to me like something is broken or misconfigured on your system.

[–] agent_flounder 1 points 7 months ago

Interesting. I will have to try discord. I've used Spotify with no issues.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Good to know. I’ll try reinstalling Firefox. Both of these work flawlessly on edge for me.