The Endless Browser Wars

Re:The Endless Browser Wars by dijit on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @09:22AM (#25916024)

> 3) Firefox is there, it's being maintained, and you can use it. Many people do. Blanket stating that that is not an option is kind of weird. It's a fine browser. It doesn't have this problem. Chromium is also still a fine browser; and it supports extensions as mentioned before.

Seriously large caveat: YMMV.

I'm increasingly hitting weird bugs on sites with Firefox, some sufficiently complicated web "apps" just throw up "Use Chrome" overlays.

The situation is similar on Safari, although, oddly, not quite as bad.

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Re:The Endless Browser Wars by armoredkitten on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @10:11AM (#25916580)

Could you give some examples where you run into these issues with Firefox? I've seen these comments made before and, as someone who's used FF for years, I just....don't recall ever having particular issues with websites not loading correctly. So I'm legitimately curious.

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Re:The Endless Browser Wars by dijit on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @10:16AM (#25929185)

I can give 1 good example and one "superfluous" example, off the top of my head.

Good example) My bank (Nordea.se) has a nice internet banking portal, it works rather well in Firefox until you need to do a video meeting with your adviser. (which I'm doing for a mortgage). Then, in Firefox, nothing happens, no dialog, no pop-up/under, just... nothing, when I click join meeting.

If I do it in Edge/Chrome- it works. Frustrating.

Superfluous example: Microsoft Teams _always_ has issues and sometimes even throws up warnings about using an unsupported browser. Though this is on Firefox ESR.

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