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      • nexussapphire@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        Discord, slack, bitwarden, steam, Microsoft teams, visual studio code, balena etcher . Anyone else know of any electron apps or heavily modified version of chrome?😄

    • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      What pisses me off is how many websites don’t work right with Firefox now. There’s been several times where I’ve had issues with a site functioning on Firefox and had to switch to a chromium browser.

      • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I read that most sites work just fine if you spoof your user agent to windows and standard chrome

        • ayaya@lemdro.idEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          This breaks any site that uses CloudFlare’s Turnstile for me. It will loop forever and never let me through if my user agent is set to Chrome.

          • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zipEnglish
            1·
            2 months ago

            The point was that some sites neglect to develop for Firefox, and simply tell Firefox users to get chrome instead. Meanwhile Firefox works in most cases perfectly fine without any doing on the website’s part if it is simply duped into believing that the firefox user is just a plain old chrome user as expected. Doesn’t work for everything, but almost.

    • Shatpoz1288@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      2 months ago

      The more people use Firefox, the more web devs will be forced to ensure their website works on Firefox.

    • Enekk@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      I’m showing my age, but back when IE was basically the only browser and Firefox (Firebird back then) launched, people often lamented that things didn’t work in Firefox. The solution? People used Firefox and web developers were forced to make their shit work in Firefox. When Chrome came out, suddenly we had three real options and the way to make everything work? Open Standards.

      Now, Chrome is in the position IE was back before Firefox came around. How ever will we make sure things work in Firefox??? Use Firefox. If enough people dump Google’s malware browser, the web has to go back to supporting multiple browsers through open standards.

      • Squizzy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        01·
        2 months ago

        Thing is Google’s influence on Firefox is making it a worse company and browser as AI and privacy invading features take over.

    • dan@upvote.auEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Have you reported issues for them? It’s in the menu somewhere. If Mozilla get a lot of reports for particular sites, they reach out to the webmaster and try to work with them to improve Firefox support - usually by removing proprietary Chrome-only features or by removing reliance on Chrome bugs that don’t exist in Firefox.

      You can also report the issue at https://webcompat.com/, just search to see if it’s already been reported first.

  • ArchRecord@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Adblockers are the largest consumer boycott in history.

    Google isn’t just disabling an extension, they’re attacking a boycott comprised of 200,000,000+ people, all around the globe, standing up to forced manipulation of our beliefs and habits by profit-hungry corporations.

    • Ragnarok314159@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      2 months ago

      If Google presented me with ads for things I might be interested in and in a non-invasive way, wouldn’t mind looking at them at all.

      Instead I get ads for the seemingly random shit I have absolutely zero interest in buying. How they are consistently wrong about my spending habits is unbelievable. I have two fucking hobbies! I don’t see ads for anything relating to them. Ever.

    • TCB13@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      You’re correct, and now people will boycott Chrome. Firefox and Brave are good / accessible / easy to get for most people so…

  • Angel Mountain@feddit.nlEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Let this be my warning to Google that I will never go back to their browser when they do. Challas! ✌️

      • nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I already know a few people who were just marginally digitally literate, and now they can’t read things like news articles and access several kinds of services anymore, unless someone helps them, because they don’t property know how to close invasive popups and solve captchas.

        The internet is literally becoming unusable for some people.

        • RufusFirefly@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 months ago

          I’m in my mid 60s and know a few people that never even heard the term “browser extension” before. How they tolerate using the web with no ad blocking is beyond me.

    • Ragnarok314159@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Got my boomer mom to finally install an ad blocker. She was tired of looking at a webpage, having an ad give some kind of script run error, and then it reloads back at the top. It’s a big problem on the cooking websites she goes to.

      I would rather go back to the days of shitty pop-ups you can just close. These ads are far worse, and none of them even make sense.

  • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I honestly can’t wait to see how this plays out. Only Chrome, chromium and edge in their pure forms have dedicated to doing this. Most of the Chrome forks have said they’re going to fork and keep it running. It’s certainly going to give Firefox a shot in the arm, but there’s no lack of other competition either.

    • Scrollone@feddit.itEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I don’t know how long the forks will be able to backport new features to their forked codebase.

      I think the only sensible solution is to just switch to Firefox.

      • ipkpjersi@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Eventually Firefox will switch to V3 anyway so it’s kind of just delaying the inevitable.

        It sucks that this is the future of the Internet.

        • mint_tamas@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Manifest v3 is already supported in Firefox (they must support it to keep the extension ecosystem alive), but they implemented it without the user-hostile restrictions.

          • ipkpjersi@lemmy.mlEnglish
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            2 months ago

            Oh, I wasn’t aware of that, I thought the user-hostile restrictions were inherent to Manifest v3 and they were unavoidable.

            Okay, maybe just maybe Firefox squeaks by unharmed then.

            edit: I literally just had someone else tell me just now that “It’s not something that can be worked around. It’s specifically a design feature of manifest v3 to restrict these types of things.”

            So which is it? I’m kind of getting mixed signals here.

            edit 2: Oh, it sounds like Google has additional arbitrary restrictions on content blocking functionality, beyond what Manifest V3 itself has.

  • irish_link@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Glad I have firefox as well but also looking forward to a cool new project called Ladybird. https://ladybird.org

    Not sure if its the right one but glad there are more projects out there trying to jump into the game. (I know extensions are a long way off for it but i see it as hope.)

    Also please consider running pihole or adguard home. Or any other full home DNS add blocker. It will help.

    • Jarmer@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Ladybird looks great! Very much looking forward to an alpha linux release so I can use it and give all kind of feedback.

    • Ace T'Ken@lemmy.caEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Looks like what I’d want to use, but to reach broad support it needs a Windows client as well.