Re:Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try
by ameister14 on Thursday June 21, 2018 @09:15AM
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Which I find especially hilarious because there was a period from 2014-2017 when hangouts worked better for me and my colleagues in other browsers
Re:Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try
by matt-snider on Thursday June 21, 2018 @09:36AM
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Also noticed this with Google Flights last week. I dislike the way they position it, as if Firefox for Android is insufficient:
> Time for an upgrade. Looks like your browser needs a boost. To get the best Google Flights experience, upgrade to one of the supported browsers.
Re:Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try
by hexane360 on Thursday June 21, 2018 @01:35PM
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Funnily enough, it links to a site (http://whatbrowser.org/) that suggests Chrome, Opera, and Firefox as supported browsers.
Re:Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try
by eat_veggies on Thursday June 21, 2018 @09:15AM
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Allo works on Firefox now, but before, I used to set my user-agent to Chrome's and it'd work.
Re:Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try
by akoncius on Thursday June 21, 2018 @11:00AM
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it's not a definition of working when you need to cheat system in order to get it working.
Re:Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try
by Fuxy on Thursday June 21, 2018 @12:19PM
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If the system is cheating you it's only fair you cheat it back... but I get what you mean; most users won't even know to do that or would be interested in doing it.
It's shady for Google to lie to their users especially when they imply its the browsers fault and not just their dev team being lazy gits and not validating that features work on Firefox.
Because that's the only valid excuse I could come up with that would make sense as to why they don't support it beside being shady that is...
Google Flights began blocking Firefox for Android last week, and Google still serves a degraded Search experience to Firefox users on Android (but hey, no AMP).
Despite well-meaning concern from the Chrome team, it's abundantly clear that Google's other product managers do not view interoperability with open, cross-browser standards as a requirement. And while many products eventually gain Firefox support, that support usually only comes months after launch, if at all. To wit, Earth was recently rebranded from "Earth on Web" to "Earth for Chrome," so who knows what's going to happen there.