• thezeesystem@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Lots of people can’t just straight up ditch it. I have had multiple websites just don’t work with Firefox regardless of whatever add-ons I put. For me I just go into a Windows sandbox, but there’s people who are not that tech savvy and it’s often forced on them. Also iirc most schools have chrome books they let students use. So it’s basically forced onto people.

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      10 months ago

      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.

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        10 months ago

        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.

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        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.

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        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

      • Poiar@sh.itjust.works
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        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.

      • Billygoat@catata.fish
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        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@lemmy.world
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        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.

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      10 months ago

      If a website or app doesn’t test in Firefox, I avoid it. That’s something I run into like once a year, and I just use edge once if I need to, and avoid that website or app in the future. It’s not hard to support Firefox, it’s just a shitty ass business decision not to

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      10 months ago

      Use a Chromium fork instead if you’re having so much trouble. Thorium is a decent alternative.

    • gian @lemmy.grys.it
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      10 months ago

      I have had multiple websites just don’t work with Firefox regardless of whatever add-ons I put.

      Have you tried to change the browser’s user agent ?