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I hate chromium (fanaticus.social)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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[–] 79 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I get the joke but I don't have any problems visiting websites. Neither with firefox nor with mull

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  • [–] 47 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

    Go to https://business.apple.com/#/main/users

    Reset your user agent string. It will tell you that your browser is unsupported. Switch your user string to chrome and everything will function as expected.

    IT people probably run into more problems with non-chromium browsers.

    Edit: it has to be visited on a desktop regardless. ABM does not like mobile browsers.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    IT person here, Firefox works fine for everything that matters.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago*

    That's highly subjective. At our org there's a reason our baseline deployment for workstation images comes with both Chrome and Firefox. We have thousands of users across dozens of specialties (HR, logistics, scientists, engineers, etc) and they all have a multitude of web apps they use day to day. Some of those don't like Chrome or Firefox. Hell, we even had to support god damn IE11 for way too long before Microsoft thankfully forced its death by discontinuing security support (our cybersecurity people ban anything that doesn't have active vendor support with very few exceptions).

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Unfortunately, I have to manage Apple devices. Also unfortunately, Verizon has yet to answer my automated enrollment requests.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Well you should have easy access to Safari at least. But that's stupid for them to exclude Firefox on that Apple Business site that I've never looked at before today.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    I'm on a windows machine. I have to use this for iPhones until Verizon approves my requests. But yeah that one in particular doesn't make sense to me. Its not even a product its a management tool for schools and businesses.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    What the hell is wrong with apple?

    That's not firefox' fault

    Btw: what's abm?

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Here is the problem with changing the user agent (IMO). It just re-enforces the idea that Chrome/Chromium browsers are the only browsers and therefore sites should just be coded for them. Which they are currently the most common for people to be using since even Microsoft gave up on IE and the original Edge. But the fact that Microsoft and Google are still the most dominate OS'es means that we are just seeing IE all over again. With sites being coded to only expect Chromium, then they are just set to not even allow them to be loaded by anything else.

    The fact that so many of the sites do in fact work with Firefox/Safari when the user agent is set to falsely report that it is Chrome/Chromium should be kind of concerning. Just leads to false narratives that other options are not worth using due to being bad products. Kind of like how in the US we are conditioned to believe that there are only two parties to choose from and all other options shouldn't be allowed or are never okay to support.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    It is concerning. I make sure to reset my string when I'm done so that my computer reports it is using firefox. Something should be done. But I am so exhausted and overworked that I don't have time for much else.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I 100% expect websites to soon start breaking their interface on Firefox. With Chromium blocking the best adblockers, they will be incentivized to nudge people to Chromium browsers.

    Didn’t we already see Youtube sneaking in a 5 second delay for Firefox users?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    There was a reddit post that claimed that, and it was debunked in that same reddit post. Some website made a "news" article about it, citing said reddit post. Bigger news orgs made articles about it citing that website.

    There are so many "news" websites that basically don't do any fact checking and use social media as their sources.

    My other pet peeve around social media "journalism" is when someone writes an article about a hot take on a political topic and their source is some tweet with like 2 likes and retweet. Like, that's not a radical opinion many people share, stop making it seem like this is a common sentiment amongst the left/right.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    But I did have issues with some Web SDRs on http://www.websdr.org/ when using Chromium-based browsers

    And I wasn't the only one, looking at F.A.Q.:

    Q: I'm using Chrome and don't hear audio (on some sites)!

    A: Since version 71, Chrome does not allow every website to start playing audio, in order to stop annoying advertisements. Chrome tries to guess whether you want audio or not, but doesn't always get it right. On some WebSDR sites, you'll get an "audio start" button, on some you don't.

    If you don't get audio, try the following:

    • At the top right, click the 4 vertical dots, and then Settings.
    • At the bottom, click Advanced.
    • Under "Privacy and security," click Site settings.
    • Select "Sound"
    • Select "Add" and enter "http://*"

    ^(thanks^ ^to^ ^K9GL^ ^for^ ^these^ ^instructions)^

    Note that the above effectively disables Chrome's "autoplay" policy for all http sites.

    ^Although^ ^stopping^ ^automatic^ ^sound^ ^from^ ^advertisements^ ^is^ ^a^ ^noble^ ^idea,^ ^I^ ^think^ ^Chrome's^ ^autoplay^ ^policy^ ^is^ ^fundamentally^ ^wrong.^ ^Instead^ ^of^ ^trying^ ^to^ ^guess^ ^what^ ^the^ ^user^ ^wants,^ ^the^ ^browser^ ^should^ ^simply^ ^ask^ ^the^ ^user^ ^whether^ ^he/she^ ^wants^ ^to^ ^allow^ ^the^ ^page^ ^to^ ^play^ ^sound^ ^(and^ ^remember^ ^that^ ^for^ ^later^ ^visits,^ ^of^ ^course).^

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The only think I can't do in FF is flash an esp32. It's the only reason I have chrome installed.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    There are multiple dedicated ESP32 flashing programs available for most operating systems, there should be no reason to use any web browser to flash a microcontroller.

    The fact this even needs to be said says a lot about modern web browsers, and software development in general.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    WebUSB is handy for things like factory resetting a pixel, where it's one of many options available... what I don't like is when manufacturers decide to only allow their device to be configured over webusb (looking at you various mech keyboard companies 🤬)

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    redmedical will force me to open the rotting corpse of edge everytime i try to enter a meeting.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Would MSEdgeRedirect help with that?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    not really. i can open it in another browser, but anything else is "unsupported"

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The site claims it's unsupported? That usually means nothing. Every site I've encountered like that will work fine in Firefox if I switch the user agent header to Edge.

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