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Re:Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try by latexr on Thursday June 21, 2018 @06:44AM (#17363763)
Not only is it still a thing, Google itself is a major culprit of it. Seems like every new experiment they release is “best viewed” in — or worse, “requires” — Google Chrome.
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Re:Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try by Rovanion on Thursday June 21, 2018 @07:28AM (#17364039)
Not just experiments. Neither Google Hangouts nor Meet worked in Firefox until the 22nd of May this year.
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Re:Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try by lambda on Thursday June 21, 2018 @07:52AM (#17364226)
Oh, wow, Hangouts and Meet are working in Firefox now? I've been keeping Chrome running just for that for a couple of years, will be glad to stop having to do that.
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Re:Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try by JshWright on Thursday June 21, 2018 @08:51AM (#17364593)
Meet works now? I knew about hangouts, but Meet was still not working last I checked. That would be fantastic if that was the case.

EDIT: So it does! The last reason I was keeping Chrome as my default (so Meet calendar invite links would work) is gone.

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Re:Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try by pmontra on Thursday June 21, 2018 @08:28AM (#17364458)
Meet didn't even work in Chrome on Ubuntu 16.04 last time I checked. A customer of mine that went all Google talked about going back to Skype, which fixed most problems in the last months (with the obvious exception of the uselessly sparse layout.)
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Re:Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try by swasheck on Thursday June 21, 2018 @09:09AM (#17364698)
I've found that "work" in this case is still even a stretch. With it being the only application that I have open, with one tab on Firefox, these sites (but especially Inbox) cause my zBook to sound like it's mining Bitcoin or running SETI analysis.
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Re:Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try by novaRom on Thursday June 21, 2018 @07:33AM (#17364086)
Google Flights is still not working in Firefox
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Re:Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try by baobrain on Thursday June 21, 2018 @07:44AM (#17364171)
What is not working? I have been using google flights to book trips for months without issues now. The only google services I've had some trouble with firefox are hangouts, and even that is fixed.
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Re:Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try by callahad on Thursday June 21, 2018 @08:41AM (#17364530)
Try it on Android, where Google controls more of the market, and has less incentive for interop. You get a door slammed in your face: https://twitter.com/andrewhobden/status/1007668509826928640

Great response from Alex Russell, but it's clear that the sentiments of the Chrome team aren't translating into policy elsewhere in Google, or we wouldn't be dealing with something like this every few months.

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Re:Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try by baobrain on Thursday June 21, 2018 @10:39AM (#17365550)
Oh wow, I never noticed this before, this must be a recent thing...Thanks!
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Re:Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try by GusRuss89 on Thursday June 21, 2018 @07:30AM (#17364047)
Well yeah, if it's an experiment that demonstrates a feature that Firefox doesn't support then of course it will be best viewed in Chrome. Experiments shouldn't count here.
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Re:Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try by forgottenpass on Thursday June 21, 2018 @10:39AM (#17365554)
As soon as "experiment" stops meaning "soft launch" we can stop counting them.
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Re:Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try by hellojason on Thursday June 21, 2018 @08:16AM (#17364382)
Google Optimize requires both Chrome and a browser extension (which isn’t available for any other browser) to work.
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Re:Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try by pbhjpbhj on Thursday June 21, 2018 @07:38AM (#17364122)
It's quite a good filter, they can get user feedback with less risk of negative reviews.
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