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[-] Deceptichum@kbin.social 122 points 5 months ago

It's just another flavour of Chromium though isn't it?

[-] nix@merv.news 41 points 5 months ago
[-] Gregory@sh.itjust.works 18 points 5 months ago

Much more UI customization and a shitton of power user stuff too

[-] M137@lemmy.world 60 points 5 months ago
[-] Gregory@sh.itjust.works 11 points 5 months ago

Fair, site compatibility is needed for my work so I unfortunately must use chromium

[-] kratoz29@lemm.ee 21 points 5 months ago

Quit the job, work in Firefox only environments, send the message /s

[-] OADINC@feddit.nl 15 points 5 months ago

I've heard multiple people say this as the reason for not using Firefox, but I can't remember if I ever had sites not working on FF. Does it happen often for you?

[-] Contramuffin@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

Not often, but it does happen enough times that I have Chrome installed as a backup in case something doesn't work. It's usually the in-house websites (for instance, the ones made for tracking timesheets) that break on Firefox. Not all of them break, of course, but if you're required to submit a form via a particular in-house website and it doesn't load on Firefox, then you're kind of forced to have a backup browser at minimum.

It doesn't happen often enough that I would say that using Firefox is problematic, but if you combine that with people's inherent aversion to change, you can start to see why people are so resistant to even trying Firefox. Unfortunately, it ends up being a self-fulfilling prophecy, since the less people use Firefox, the less the web development teams at these companies would be incentivized to make sure their website works on Firefox

[-] mjhelto@lemm.ee 4 points 5 months ago

My power got shut off one day before December last year. I thought the bills were all being paid cause I received no notice of delinquency. Turns out, my electric company purged my account.

When I tried to make a new account, going through multiple attempts where the only thing that worked right was their shitty captcha (select all motorcycles bullshit), I finally had to call them. Turns out, soon as I switched to a chromium browser, it allowed me to complete the registration.

I told the rep on the phone, a nice lady who was as shocked as I was that Firefox wasn't allowing registration to complete, to convey to their IT team that a) removing the accounts of paying customers is a really awful policy (who logs into their power companies site after setting up auto pay?) and b) that catering to a single line of browser was not bad practice. She said she'd pass it on.

I don't think she passed it on.

[-] Gregory@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

Yeah unfortunately, things like Apple Business Manager, ezoffice, and our KVM software refuse to work on non chromium browsers, no matter how many user agent spoofing extensions I install

[-] ViscloReader@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Happened to me during an internship, I was really frustrated to install this on my machine.

[-] jaykay@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 months ago

You can try floorp, it’s Firefox + some of Vivaldi

[-] hannes3120@feddit.de 6 points 5 months ago

For gecko the best alternative to old opera and Vivaldi I found so far is floorp

[-] megane_kun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 months ago

I looked it up and it looks great. Currently downloading it to give it a try. I wonder how it compares to LibreWolf though.

[-] ultra@feddit.ro 1 points 5 months ago
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