• mechoman444@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    Chrome? A browser that’s easily replaceable with any other browser? Huh… Didn’t see that one coming.

    /S

    • Dicska@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      I’m saying this as a 2 year convert Firefox user: mostly easily replaceable. Sure, I can browse pretty much every page that I can on chrome. However, a few sites don’t work the same way - sometimes because of the site’s conscious decision, sometimes because of Firefox.

      Take Facebook, for example. On desktop, I can’t make voice calls anymore from the desktop site. For a while it was possible with non encrypted chats, but now pretty much all of them are encrypted, and FF is not compatible with that. I also can’t watch h265 videos in my chats anymore. I’m still sticking with FF, but I just can’t easily say that FF is just as good for everything (I’m still not going back to chrome).

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        Yeah I’m a 20-some year FF user and when it started you had to have IE as a backup because not everything was compatible. In the late 2000s through late 2010s everything worked everywhere, then with chromes dominance places have stopped testing or supporting certain things in FF and it feels like history is repeating itself. Unfortunately you need a chromium-based backup realistically for certain sites, but 99.5% of things work totally fine in FF.

        • Brumefey@sh.itjust.works
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          3 hours ago

          A lot of websites are broken on Firefox which is a shame. I can’t even scroll down on some news sites. What a shame…