I hate chromium : firefox

[+] reddig33@lemmy.world 204 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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[-] bigbluealien@kbin.social 129 points 2 years ago

99% of sites only need to know your screen aspect ratio and maybe available input devices, can't think of a good reason to share anything else

[-] julianh@lemm.ee 75 points 2 years ago

Knowing OS is useful for download links.

[-] capital@lemmy.world 103 points 2 years ago

I’d be down for an ask to allow that info. Sort of like how sites request access to cam and mic.

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 23 points 2 years ago

Before Windows 10, NVidia and others had this button Detect what thing suits me best on their websites. Now many of them just look it up in one's fingerprint without asking.

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 49 points 2 years ago

Oh no, they'd have to list more than one link,the horror!

[-] DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 29 points 2 years ago

The vast majority of people would have no clue what to download.

[-] daFRAKKINpope@lemmy.world 50 points 2 years ago

Let them be confused. They'll learn eventually. Or they won't. Computers are too user friendly today anyway.

[-] 1371113@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago

Fuckin oath. If we cater to the stupid too much the folks who are middling just get lazy. Make people think. It’s important that we know how to use our brains.

[-] datelmd5sum@lemmy.world 28 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Microsoft hides their links if they see you run linux. So you need to manually set your OS in the browser settings to see the download link. Very convenient.

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[-] drathvedro@lemm.ee 35 points 2 years ago

The biggest offender is, surprisingly, cloudflare. They will straight up refuse to serve you any site if your user agent is not one of the mainstream ones. It's not even "find the traffic light to prove you're human", but a page basically saying "fuck you, go away".

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[-] thehatfox@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

User agents are not unfortunately not the only way to identify a browser, there are other ways to fingerprint a platform.

[-] smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 2 years ago

JavaScript as it is today also need to be thrown in a trash of history. Website should not contain additional code. If someone wants to send me an app hacked on top of website rendering, it should be a popup asking me first if I want to run this.

[-] Supervisor194@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

No, dynamic content should absolutely be able to be delivered through the open Web, not just through walled gardens. Apps are almost universally shit.

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[-] _number8_@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

i don't want them knowing desktop or mobile either. we all have good enough phones now to handle a proper website on mobile -- mobile sites are fucking garbage.

steve jobs during the original iphone keynote did a whole segment on how you could load the full rich widescreen NYT website and zoom in and out and look at that rich text rendering. apps are ass, mobile sites are ass.

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[-] Anafabula@discuss.tchncs.de 117 points 2 years ago

Actually, the top one is the logo of the chromium browser engine, but the bottom one is not the logo of the Gecko browser engine. That's the logo of SpiderMonkey, Firefox's Javascript engine (Chromium uses V8).

This is the logo for Gecko:

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[-] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 96 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's especially moronic that Cloudflare thinks everyone using Tor is trying to DDOS every site.

Do you know how fucking slow Tor is? You couldn't DDOS an Arduino with it.

[-] QwertySpace@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago

Probably because there are A LOT of people using that tor exit node that have visited that site recently. So, cloudflare sees it as a potential DDOS

[-] candle_lighter@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 years ago

Onion sites get DDOS attacks constantly. That's why Dread has so many backup links.

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[-] iamtherealwalrus@lemmy.world 85 points 2 years ago

Do we, as an industry, have such short attention span, that we forgot how Microsoft abused their monopoly in the 1990s to force everyone to use Internet Explorer? Now that Google is doing the exact same thing, nobody seems to mind.

[-] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 30 points 2 years ago

Because the tech gigacorporations have literally spent the last three decades brainwashing us into accepting shit like that and even convincing us that it's better this way.

[-] uriel238 13 points 2 years ago

Not better. No one thinks anything is better, just that we don't have a choice but to take what they serve.

[-] snoopfrog@midwest.social 13 points 2 years ago

I remember using Netscape (my Google keyboard didn't know that word) before Firefox and SeaMonkey. I mostly used SeaMonkey to edit HTML and Firefox for my casual browsing.

[-] qupada@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago

Those of us who had to develop websites and make them even vaguely functional in IE6 haven't forgotten.

Dark times, those were.

[-] GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml 69 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 46 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

[-] cooopsspace@infosec.pub 28 points 2 years ago

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

[-] bassomitron@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 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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[-] derf82@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

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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[-] JockerBlack@lemmy.ml 46 points 2 years ago

I use lynx btw.

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[-] nullpotential@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 2 years ago

It's "how it feels" or "what it feels like", not "how it feels like"

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[-] MangoPenguin 29 points 2 years ago

Brave isn't doing much better with captchas lately due to having adblocking built in, google is just on a crusade against anyone blocking stuff.

[-] dvdnet89@lemmy.today 28 points 2 years ago

my company give choice to use Firefox and Chrome and it is mandatory to install those browsers on those computers. But, 95% use Chrome.

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[-] DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago

It's so absurd. It feels like half of the websites out there actively don't want me to visit them.

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[-] cupcakezealot 15 points 2 years ago

evergreen article https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/4/16805216/google-chrome-only-sites-internet-explorer-6-web-standards

[-] bobo@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

What is the second browser from the bottom on the right?

[-] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 2 years ago

Librewolf

[-] Nelots@lemm.ee 22 points 2 years ago

As the other two said, Librewolf. It's basically a very privacy-focused fork of Firefox, where just about all privacy settings are on by default.

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Firefox

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