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Re:Product Updates Based on Your Feedback by rckclmbr on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @01:46AM (#18073072)
I actually use Chrome for everything Google, and Firefox for everything else. It's a constant reminder that I need to stop using Google services. I don't open it much anymore, just to check my gmail which still has a few emails going to it, and to find my android whenever I lose it.
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Re:Product Updates Based on Your Feedback by nachtigall on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @02:26AM (#18073229)
Does gmail really not work in another browser like Firefox? Seriously? How is this possible?
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Re:Product Updates Based on Your Feedback by rckclmbr on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @02:35AM (#18073276)
It works fine in Firefox, I do it for the intentional isolation. To me, chrome browser is "google browser"
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Re:Product Updates Based on Your Feedback by ankka on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @02:34AM (#18073273)
Almost everything runs just fine in Firefox.

Google software seems to be chrome-optimized, but it's usually only slightly slower on Firefox - it still works.

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Re:Product Updates Based on Your Feedback by ndnxhs on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @03:38AM (#18073611)
Some google websites are chrome only because of the use of some non standard plugins.
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Re:Product Updates Based on Your Feedback by mattlondon on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @07:39AM (#18074853)
Do you have any details of which ones? I have not discovered any so far - everything seems to work just as well in Firefox (e.g. gmail, youtube, search, maps, adwords, adsense, analytics, cloud console, webmaster tools are the ones I requently use on Firefox with zero issues)
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Re:Product Updates Based on Your Feedback by ndnxhs on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @09:58AM (#18075962)
Google earth and Google hangouts
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Re:Product Updates Based on Your Feedback by AsyncAwait on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @06:46AM (#18074592)
It works, but it uses non-standard extensions that are only present in Chrome, so it runs slow in Firefox, especially since their latest update.
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