Did Google Sabotage Firefox?

Re:Did Google Sabotage Firefox? by ninedays on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @10:47AM (#19683013)

You have to be crazy to think that Google has nothing to do with the degraded experience of their services using the Firefox browser.

One example is Recaptcha, if you use Firefox, you will be asked to confirm the Recaptcha almost all the time. Switch to Chrome and your problems disappear.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1238593

It is only one of the several different things they did against Firefox. YouTube would be another one.

The reality is that Google created those problems for Firefox to brag about how Chrome was such a better browser etc ..

I wish Chrome had won the browser battle based on merit and innovation and not shaddy tactics and shenanigans.

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Re:Did Google Sabotage Firefox? by jermaustin1 on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @10:51AM (#19683052)

I think ReCaptcha uses browser thumbprinting for remembering you are not a robot. I will sometimes use incognito mode to browse websites as a non user, and the ReCaptchas always make me find the chimneys or the stop signs.

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Re:Did Google Sabotage Firefox? by doener on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @02:41PM (#19685255)

>One example is Recaptcha, if you use Firefox, you will be asked to confirm the Recaptcha almost all the time. Switch to Chrome and your problems disappear.

I got the Recaptcha confirmation on Chrome all the time. I get it every time regardless if I use Chrome on my Macbook Pro, my iMac or my Windows PC.

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