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Re:Microsoft intercepting Firefox, Chrome installation on Wi... by apetrovic on Thursday September 13, 2018 @02:59AM (#17976598)
Like Google is doing on YouTube and their main site? What you'll say if GitHub loading times are 5x faster on Edge than on Chrome and Firefox [1]?

I don't want to be Microsoft apologist, but Google is doing this shit for years, and nobody says anything. One annoying popup in Windows and the end is near. Yeah, because we don't trust MS for things they did ten years ago. But we trust Google even if they're doing the same thing right now.

[1] https://twitter.com/cpeterso/status/1021626510296285185

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Re:Microsoft intercepting Firefox, Chrome installation on Wi... by kennydude on Thursday September 13, 2018 @05:49AM (#17977281)
It gets worse.

Google Hangouts Meet doesn't work in anything but Chrome.

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Re:Microsoft intercepting Firefox, Chrome installation on Wi... by gsnedders on Thursday September 13, 2018 @06:25AM (#17977456)
Meet works fine in Firefox nowadays.
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Re:Microsoft intercepting Firefox, Chrome installation on Wi... by kennydude on Thursday September 13, 2018 @06:31AM (#17977481)
That's changed recently o-o

Woo!

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Re:Microsoft intercepting Firefox, Chrome installation on Wi... by vetinari on Thursday September 13, 2018 @07:45AM (#17977820)
With Firefox 60, actually.

So it works even with the current ESR.

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Re:Microsoft intercepting Firefox, Chrome installation on Wi... by swsieber on Thursday September 13, 2018 @01:16PM (#17980405)
But was that on purpose or only incidentally?
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Re:Microsoft intercepting Firefox, Chrome installation on Wi... by gsnedders on Thursday September 13, 2018 @01:25PM (#17980485)
On purpose; remember they whitelist UAs. Hangouts and Meet both supporting Firefox now was a deliberate move, enabled by Hangouts/Meet moving to the current WebRTC draft protocol (versus some much older one) and by Firefox introducing supports for some further JS APIs to monitor the WebRTC connection.
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Re:Microsoft intercepting Firefox, Chrome installation on Wi... by Izkata on Thursday September 13, 2018 @08:39PM (#17983920)
I'm not so certain.

About a month ago, on a fully-updated Firefox, one of those (I forget if Hangouts or Meet) refused to start for me, saying Firefox was not supported.

Even now, every time I'm in a Hangout, it'll work on Firefox, then after exiting it redirects to a page that says Firefox isn't supported.

It's like the user-agent check was switched with something less reliable.

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