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Re:Firefox has lots of room to improve if it wants to beat C... by TheGoddessInari on Sunday September 01, 2019 @06:46AM (#20851564)
Google's practices pushing web non-standards haphazardly are so heinous that even Electron can't usually handle general web apps, like WhatsApp (especially) because it depends on Chrome-specific, not even Chromium, features. Many others are the same way.
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Re:Firefox has lots of room to improve if it wants to beat C... by echelon on Sunday September 01, 2019 @11:49AM (#20852884)
Can you cite this? I'm collecting a laundry list of reasons Google has degraded the web, and this is certainly evidence.
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Re:Firefox has lots of room to improve if it wants to beat C... by green-eclipse on Sunday September 01, 2019 @02:15PM (#20853747)
If you go back in time far enough, Google has improved the web exponentially more than it has harmed it.
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Re:Firefox has lots of room to improve if it wants to beat C... by huehehue on Sunday September 01, 2019 @03:12PM (#20854118)
This is a bit hard to say, right? Google is also responsible for the normalization of aggressive user tracking and the creation of the ad-ridden tire fire that is the modern internet.
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Re:Firefox has lots of room to improve if it wants to beat C... by DCoder on Monday September 02, 2019 @01:45AM (#20857016)
I wrote up one example that was particularly frustrating when I realized it [0].

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ar1qj1/_/egl52...

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