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Re:Microsoft intercepting Firefox, Chrome installation on Wi... by sli on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @11:38AM (#17969854)
Google has done this before. When they blocked Hangouts in non-Chrome browsers, spoofing your User Agent would allow it to load and, probably predictably since I'm making this comment, Hangouts worked absolutely fine in Firefox. Not sure if it still works these days, but I don't use Hangouts anymore.

There's also the whole Shadow DOM v0 stuff with YouTube that more or less artificially slows down rendering in non-Chrome browsers.

Google is just more subtle about it.

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Re:Microsoft intercepting Firefox, Chrome installation on Wi... by icelancer on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @11:49PM (#17975841)
I have never had this problem with Hangouts in Firefox. Hangouts has a million bugs on its own, but it works similarly poorly in Chrome and Firefox and has for a long time as far as I can tell.
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