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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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