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Why Bother With uBlock Being Blocked In Chrome? Now Is The Best Time To Switch To Firefox (tuta.com)
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Why Bother With uBlock Being Blocked In Chrome? Now Is The Best Time To Switch To Firefox::Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs.

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[+] 139 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)
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  • [–] 78 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    That was Internet Explorer 20 years ago and look where we are now.

    I personally can't remember the last time I had issues with a site on Firefox in the last few years since I switched.

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

    The teams web app was borked for me on Firefox at one point. Idk if it's still like that. Also Google Chat or whatever tf it's called now disables a bunch of features on Firefox.

    Still worth it to switch. 99% of websites work just fine. They basically have to intentionally design sites to not work with FF.

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

    Ah yes wtf is Teams doing!? Some arbitrary features are blocked on Firefox, like you can't direct call someone but you can be part of a group call 🤪

    But I don't think Microsoft's online suite is a reference, most of it feels buggy or bloated at best.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago*

    When I was using Firefox I felt like spoofing user agent was essential to make websites work the way they were supposed to. I could loose some rounded corners here and there but it was still better that some features completely missing

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    Been using it for years, and the only few times I had issues was due to worthless websites creating artificial obstacles with an "unsupported browser/OS" page or banner rather than something actually breaking for being incompatible.

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

    Discord and spotify web versions don’t work on Firefox for me. On discord in can’t connect to a call and Spotify doesn’t play songs or it takes a long time after pressing play for the song to start playing.

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

    This is an especially common problem on Android. I have found many sites whose mobile version simply does not work in Firefox. It's very frustrating.

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

    I also feel their number grew in the last year. I've recently tried using Mull again (mobile firefox privacy-focused fork) after using Bromite for a year, and it was so unbearable I had to switch back. I'd say I had less websites that worked than ones that did not

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

    Have you got an example I can test? I switched to Firefox mobile over a year ago and I can't think of any time I've come across a site that didn't work.

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

    The most recent issue I had was Birds and Beans "manage subscription" page so I don't think you can test that without a coffee subscription. But here is a screenshot:

    I'm not sure why it says "nightly" as I'm on the stable version.

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

    I keep seeing this sentiment on these posts, often with a suspicious number of up votes that don't seem to correlate how many up votes everything else in the topic get.

    Literally the only place I have EVER seen this issue was a state toll road website, which was using a timezones that didn't actually exist but chrome added (and documented on the Internet to trick people into using it). A simple email to the website with an explanation and the correct timezones name and the problem was fixed.

    Pretty sure a lot of this sentiment is either astroturfing, or people passing on astroturfing trying to be helpful.

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  • [+] 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)
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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    So many tech minded people, but at same time, so many of us fail to consider others POV and priorities.

    JUST DON'T VISIT THAT WEBSITE! - sure bro, that means i won't be able to pay the bills this month because the only traditional way of doing this is visiting a physical kiosk at working hour. Did i mention that i gotta work?

    Similar with messaging apps.

    YOU NEED BETTER FRIENDS LOL - trust me I've tried. i also need to send my resume using this app to whoever interviewing me. no, no email. yes, i tried teling that. no, i won't be that guy preaching about software freedom when all i want is a fucking job.

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

    There is an addon that does this automatically.

    Some pages load weird like a pop-up on mobile that should take over your view window is a side bar instead. Still fully functional but slightly harder to read.

    But you know what makes it way harder to read? Ads

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

    Give me examples. I've been using Firefox exclusively for over ten years and I can recall one website I've had to use chrome on. That was draw.io to get shared drawing through a Google drive to work.

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

    That’s such bullshit. People keep saying SO MANY SITES DONT WORK ON FOREFUX

    with zero examples.

    I see no examples. You’re making a ridiculous claim with no proof and I’m astounded at how many people believe you here.

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

    But I keep coming across sites that don’t function properly with it. Is this Firefox’s fault? No - Firefox follows standards nicely. But growing numbers of sites don’t, and this is a big problem at a micro and macro level.

    Reminder for others that they can report to Web Compat

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