i don't want to use firefox because sometimes i run across a website that only works on chrome
yes, that... that would be the entire problem actually
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Unless your PC is a potato you saved from the scrapyard, running both browsers simultaneously is quite feasible. I use Chrome only for work-related stuff because it's the Internet Explorer 6 of the roaring twenties—all of the stupid tools from work break in Firefox.
how. how is this possible. it's not like they are wildly far apart. if you're not using webmidi or something you'd have to go out of your way to make something not work in firefox
I've been running across government and job hunting sites recently where the bog-standard "submit this form and send me to next page, please" button just does absolutely nothing for some reason until I swap to Chrome. Clueless as to why or how, I'm not a programmer.
I run into shit like this all the time, and usually it's because the underlying code on the site is wrong, it's just wrong in a way that happens to work on Chrome.
If I spend hours tracking down the specific issue and point it out to the folks running the site their response is always just "We don't support Firefox, please upgrade to a recent version of Chrome" or the like, and fuck that noise
I've also run into a few instances where switching the user-agent (via an extension) fixes the issue, and I'm not sure how to start making sense of that since it's still running on Firefox's engine in the end :/
simple - it used to not work, so they blocked the user agent or put in an override to do some nonstandard behaviour - and now it works but the override they're using doesn't know that
just yet another example: when the first COVID vaccine became available Massachusetts's government site for finding and booking a vaccination only worked on chrome. at least it said it on the main page but i feel like "work on every major browser" should be a HIGH priority for a vital and life-saving piece piece of public health infrastructure. I remember a lot of pieces coming out around that time about how state governments going all-in on online and app-based tools for COVID testing and vaccines were ignoring the huge digital divide for the sake of their own convenience, and how populations with higher rates of computer illiteracy or lack of access also had higher rates of COVID risk factors (like being elderly, or being a low wage but "essential" worker). It struck me as so bafflingly sheltered that people in charge of the public health program in MA assumed all the high risk 75 year olds trying to book their covid vaccines even know what a browser is, let alone how to download Chrome. They eventually implemented a hotline you could call to find and book a vaccine but its telling that the web-form came first, and setting up and staffing a phone line was secondary. Sorry this is such a tangent haha
i don't know what the op's problems are, but a lot of my problems stem from detection issues. i either gotta get firefox lie sufficiently or just have chrome (or safari) at the ready.
medical grade video conferencing seems especially buggy when trying to cheat on the required browser.
video conferencing in firefox isn't fully up to standard or something like that - sites that do support video conferencing on firefox apparently have to do a lot of extra work and server processing to support it. i haven't tried it but that's what i've heard.
back when i was doing web dev on chrome there was stuff like restyling input elements without extra elements that is against spec but works - stuff like that doesn't work in firefox
now that i develop for firefox, almost everything works in chrome except for the rare javascript api with implementation differences (drag and drop is so broken)
Like a dummy I had put all my passwords in chrome and I was locked in. This morning I had enough so I exported my password and moved them to a keepass. I already had syncthing running on my laptop, computer at home and phone to shard the database. I replaced the chrome icon on my phone with a firefox one and even re-added cohost to my phone through firefox.
I'm doing my part
This post is motivating me to start making web applications in firefox purely just so it can also work in chrome.
Would this work with safari too?
I wonder which level of monopoly they're waiting to get to until Google makes it fully impossible to use adblockers on Chrome