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It is essential to stop using Chrome. Under the pretense of saving users from third-party spyware, Google is creating an ecosystem in which Chrome itself is the spyware. (mastodon.world)

submitted 10 months ago by Live_Let_Live to c/technology

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Do you have any examples? I have used Firefox for years and never experienced this, nor heard of anyone I know who uses Firefox experiencing this.

[–] Swagicus 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not the commenter, but...

I play tabletop RPGs (Pathfinder 2e for those care) online with some friends, and we use a website which hosts the program (forge-vtt.com).

For the life of me, I cannot get it to behave on Firefox. Maps will be pitch black while on Chrome they render perfectly. I've tried every permutation of browser setting and extension toggling I can think of to no avail.

[–] not_woody_shaw 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Tried switching off hardware acceleration?

[–] Swagicus 8 points 10 months ago

Yup, that was the common suggestion I was finding, but no luck with it on or off.

[–] thesystemisdown 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I've hit the odd site where a menu doesn't work the way it should, the payment form doesn't work, overall form validation is wonky, or the captcha doesn't work. I attribute most of these to slight nuances in javascript between browsers.

I'm a (old, grey) dev, and I've had to shame colleagues into testing in mobile browsers other than Chrome and Safari.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I love iOS, but I gotta bring up that other browsers on iOS are all Safari with a skin.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Sonys website immediately comes to mind

Trying to get my account back for my PS5 forced me to use edge for it to work at all

And then to use edge on my wife's PC because something I have installed REALLY pisses Sony off

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Oftentimes, when I use Firefox (Main browser on my phone) things just don't render/show up. One thing I noticed was when I input my area code to find a package distribution center, and it straight up didn't show. Iirc it relied on Google maps for showing these places.

It worked in Chrome. Not pointing any fingers, it's just odd, is what I'm saying.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I use Firefox except for one thing: web serial. Chrome is the only browser that supports it. Luckily you only need it the when setting up an ESP32 for the first time and can do updates wirelessly.

[–] ItCantBeThatEasy 1 points 10 months ago

Today there was a page on my bank that just would not load in Firefox even though the rest of the site was fine. Switched to Chrome and it worked fine. I only use Chrome in these situations.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is the Proxmox console on any of my VMs or LXCs in Firefox. Works just peachy in any Chromium-based browser.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is fixable. Firefox is blocking HTML5 canvas stuff. I found a screenshot that shows you what to do: https://imgur.com/a/hdvyBtx

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Thanks mate. Fixed it right up.