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Re:Disable Google Chrome Sign In and Sync by izzydata on Monday September 24, 2018 @10:48AM (#18058131)
That seems hard to believe as it would imply that they have code specifically to cripple the Firefox experience. It's probably at worst that they intentionally don't optimize their sites for Firefox and not actively making it worse.
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Re:Disable Google Chrome Sign In and Sync by jhowell on Monday September 24, 2018 @11:34AM (#18058546)
> That seems hard to believe as it would imply that they have code specifically to cripple the Firefox experience.

I think it's more the case of enhancing the Chrome experience and not doing anything to deliberately impact firefox.

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Re:Disable Google Chrome Sign In and Sync by izzydata on Monday September 24, 2018 @11:53AM (#18058726)
That is the same as what I suggested. Which would mean that simply changing a user-agent can't make anything run better on firefox.
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Re:Disable Google Chrome Sign In and Sync by bzbarsky on Monday September 24, 2018 @09:11PM (#18062808)
Google does a lot of UA sniffing, and serves different sites to different browsers.

The sites served to non-Chrome receive less QA resources, as far as I can tell, and are often buggy in various ways. Simply spoofing the Chrome UA in Firefox on Android can often get you a site that works better (in Firefox) than the one served to Firefox by default.

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Re:Disable Google Chrome Sign In and Sync by type0 on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @05:57PM (#18070855)
Sometimes this happens on the desktop as well, they optimize for the latest Chrome and the "latest" Firefox ESR - so here we are, Chrome is the reincarnation of IE6'6'6 the definition of evil in the software world.
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