The Hotdog web browser and browser engine

Re:The Hotdog web browser and browser engine by Cthulhu_ on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @05:33AM (#26872515)

They break them on purpose so people will switch to Chrome. And the worst part is, there's no evidence (yet?) that there's malice behind it. Maybe we'll get a whistleblower at some point, but that'll only happen when their income no longer covers buying off their conscience.

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Re:The Hotdog web browser and browser engine by michalstanko on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @08:02AM (#26873433)

What exactly is broken in Firefox on YouTube or Gmail? I'm not a heavy Firefox user, but when I try it every once in a while, I've never noticed anything broken on any of the Google's sites, even Maps and Docs worked just fine - but then, maybe I wasn't trying out some advanced features.

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Re:The Hotdog web browser and browser engine by bmn__ on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @10:28AM (#26875133)

> What exactly is broken in Firefox on YouTube or Gmail?

Performance. That makes the sabotage so insidious!

https://tech.co/news/google-slowed-youtube-firefox-edge-2019...

https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/disable-polymer-youtube

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Re:The Hotdog web browser and browser engine by visiblink on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @09:29AM (#26874348)

My wife and I have had a fanless PC hooked up to our TV since 2011.

Firefox is the only browser we use and we watch Youtube every day. If it broke, I'd know about it or hear about it.

It never breaks.

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Re:The Hotdog web browser and browser engine by scaladev on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @06:14AM (#26872761)

Do they only break for users in the United States? I've been using Firefox exclusively since about 2.0, and I've never had any of the Google projects break for me. Not once. Yet this seems to be a pretty common problem around here.

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Re:The Hotdog web browser and browser engine by Ygg2 on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @06:45AM (#26872918)

I'm from Europe and on one occasion Youtube was broken on Firefox but not on Chrome. It was fixed in the day or two.

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Re:The Hotdog web browser and browser engine by yakubin on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @08:10AM (#26873496)

In my experience, YouTube in-video links (those that e.g. show thumbnails of videos and are pointed at by vloggers with their fingers) have been broken in Firefox for years. Not that I complain, I've always been annoyed by those. I think it took me 2 years to realize that after seeing vloggers point at invisible things. I had to double-check in Chrome. (I just assumed that they forgot to add the links when editing.)

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Re:The Hotdog web browser and browser engine by cardiffspaceman on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @03:44PM (#26880404)

Those links don't appear on my Android-based Youtube clients that come with my cable box and Sony TV. The vlogger's hand points to nothing. It's amazing how second-class Youtube on Android TV is, maybe someone at Google hates testing it. I still manage to use it for about 75% of my Youtube usage. My wife and I are definitely going through a Youtube phase, which will probably end when the ads reach a tipping point.

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Re:The Hotdog web browser and browser engine by jojohohanon on Saturday April 24, 2021 @11:09AM (#26925406)

Incompetent vs malice...

If they are close to the edge cases of the spec, just not testing on Firefox will break it. By negligence, rather than malice.

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