With the number of people concerned about privacy, it is a wonder why chrome is even popular.

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    1 year ago

    Anecdotal experience is great.

    I’ve never once come across a website that doesn’t work in Firefox and find Chrome and Edge significantly slower.

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      I do think Firefox gets a degraded experience on some websites.

      For example, Google Meet supports virtual video backgrounds and 3D face filters for Chromium based browsers.

      And Google Search serves up an older results page design with fewer features to Firefox users. Someone has literally had to create a Firefox addon to make it pretend to be Chrome so it gets the modern results page.

      I realise these are both Google-owned websites - but I don’t think it’s accurate to say that the average user isn’t going to come up across these differences.

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      I regularly find websites I need for business to be non-functional or crippled. I use Chrome only for specific business needs. FF for everything else.

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        I use a web based platform for one of my business systems that does not work in other browsers. I don’t care enough to have two browsers for personal and business because during work I also do some personal browsing/shopping. So I’m stuck with Chrome.

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      Pretty much every internal app for companies I’ve consulted at they never build them to work outside chromium. Learning site media often has issues. That’s banks, insurance companies and government.

      The average user uses what they know which is often what they have at work.

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      I mean mega.nz doesn’t work on Firefox but that’s about it as far as I’ve seen. And the reason that doesn’t work in Firefox is because it uses some filesystem API Mozilla thinks is unnecessary and they can’t be arsed to work with that. Or get the desktop app to work with Firefox, because that’s broken too for some reason. ~Cherri