Google Just Gave 2B Chrome Users a Reason to Switch to Firefox

Re:Google Just Gave 2B Chrome Users a Reason to Switch to Fi... by Nursie on Sunday June 02, 2019 @07:08AM (#20074727)

I have one system I still use chrome on - my late-2013 Macbook Pro.

The reason I use chrome as my main browser there is because Firefox and Slack do not seem to be friends on MacOS. I use slack in the browser rather than the native app and FF seems to get copy and paste functionality all messed up.

I would use Safari, but some quirk of the office webmail (Outlook of some sort) means that email from Safari gets flagged and blocked as potential spam by an outbound mail server :/

But everywhere else, Android phone included, it's Firefox because they don't pull these kinds of shenanigans.

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Re:Google Just Gave 2B Chrome Users a Reason to Switch to Fi... by zkomp on Sunday June 02, 2019 @07:26AM (#20074807)

See this comment a lot but absolutely disagree. Firefox works and is only getting better on MacOS. (And if being friends with MacOS is the point, then why not use Safari, does not get more friendly than that)

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Re:Google Just Gave 2B Chrome Users a Reason to Switch to Fi... by Nursie on Sunday June 02, 2019 @01:19PM (#20076705)

I love FF, really do, but as I said I have two specific issues keeping me on chrome right now.

I hope they can be sorted out.

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Re:Google Just Gave 2B Chrome Users a Reason to Switch to Fi... by gshdg on Sunday June 02, 2019 @08:36AM (#20075086)

I’ve got the same generation MBP. Why not just use the slack desktop app? I’ve never had a problem running that side by side with Firefox. And performance for both is nearly as good as on my current model laptop at work.

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Re:Google Just Gave 2B Chrome Users a Reason to Switch to Fi... by Nursie on Sunday June 02, 2019 @01:17PM (#20076691)

IIRC when I first tried that about a year and a half ago, it didn't work properly :/

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Re:Google Just Gave 2B Chrome Users a Reason to Switch to Fi... by gshdg on Sunday June 02, 2019 @06:40PM (#20078835)

Huh, personally I’ve never had a problem with slack for desktop.

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