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Re:In protest of the web{*} bulldozer, a response to websock... by _bxg1 on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @05:35PM (#23252079)
I use Roll20, a popular web app for playing tabletop games with others over the internet. It doesn't work in Firefox or Safari; it's the only reason I keep Chromium on my machine.
Re:In protest of the web{*} bulldozer, a response to websock... by franga2000 on Thursday May 21, 2020 @08:51AM (#23257761)
I've used Roll20 a fair amount in Firefox and the only times I've had to pull out Chromium it turned out the the bug was present there too. Which things specifically don't work for you? (gf knows one of the devs, so I might try to poke at them to fix it)
Re:In protest of the web{*} bulldozer, a response to websock... by Kalium on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @05:37PM (#23252106)
Really? That's very odd. I use in just fine with Firefox weekly.
Re:In protest of the web{*} bulldozer, a response to websock... by _bxg1 on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @05:44PM (#23252219)
It might only be the video/audio chat that's broken, but I know something about it was broken
Re:In protest of the web{*} bulldozer, a response to websock... by fenwick67 on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @06:51PM (#23252933)
About 6 months ago I remember it being totally unusable on FF, even without using the AV stuff.
Re:In protest of the web{*} bulldozer, a response to websock... by chipperyman573 on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @05:37PM (#23252108)
For every example you can find me of a website that doesn't support safari I could find 10 that make exceptions to do so. The point isn't that nobody does it, it's just that most companies who want to make money from the general population (aka most of them) have to.

Roll20 is also such a niche thing already it's not really a fair example. People who want to use roll20 will use another browser because they want to play dnd with their friends. Most stores don't have that social aspect.

Re:In protest of the web{*} bulldozer, a response to websock... by _bxg1 on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @05:47PM (#23252278)
My point is that if YouTube stopped working on Firefox because they didn't agree to a new standard Google had invented, lots of people would stop using Firefox.

It takes someone who really cares about these issues to bother switching back and forth between two different browsers because you want to use a non-Chromium for most things but have to use Chromium for a couple of things. The vast majority would just say "well, whatever" and switch completely.

Re:In protest of the web{*} bulldozer, a response to websock... by mohitk05 on Thursday May 21, 2020 @03:42AM (#23255806)
Re:In protest of the web{*} bulldozer, a response to websock... by spc476 on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @09:25PM (#23253969)
I stopped using Roll20 but switched to Zoom chat. Zoom chat has much better video chat support, also has a private chat function, and for our game, we could do without the "whiteboard" and the computerized dice rolling. It also would kill my network connection. It was a horrible experience.
Re:In protest of the web{*} bulldozer, a response to websock... by aidenn0 on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @11:31PM (#23254554)
I've been using Roll20 on Firefox for 4ish years. (I was a Kickstarter backer, but I'm not sure when I switched to Firefox from chromium).