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Re:De-Googling: My Progress by mrwesleycrusher on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @10:20AM (#23019553)
Before I say this, I would just like to say I run Firefox as often as I can and love love love it, but chrome is better, due entirely to the market share of the Blink web engine. Microsoft Teams' webapp only works in Blink. Hulu bitches about widevine until Firefox gives me the notification to enable it. Canvas (that thing all us students use) gets random rendering errors on gecko that makes the UI malfunction a lot.

People mention that more people should use Firefox because google controls the Blink engine and Gecko is the only real competitor, and if Blink has too high of market share, than google can add exclusive functionality to blink for developers to use, edging all other browsers out of the market.

Congrats, we live in that future.

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Re:De-Googling: My Progress by logicprog on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @10:33AM (#23019708)
> Canvas (that thing all us students use) gets random rendering errors on gecko that makes the UI malfunction a lot.

I use Canvas every day in Firefox and have never had a single problem or error. Anecdata, I know, but that's my experience.

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Re:De-Googling: My Progress by ocdtrekkie on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @10:35AM (#23019731)
If you absolutely have to have Blink, use Edge. You get basically Chrome, but with Firefox's tracking prevention built-in.
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Re:De-Googling: My Progress by joshmanders on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @12:07PM (#23020811)
Yes, if you really like Chrome as a browser but want to de-Google-ify, use Edge or Brave (Preferably Brave).
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