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Re:I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome by PossiblyKyle on Sunday July 17, 2022 @02:04PM (#32129332)
Its only killer feature to me is that websites are designed and tested with a Chromium-first attitude. As a regular FF user I might stumble upon a website that’s quite buggy or straight up doesn’t work, which forces me to use Chrome for that specific website. Other than that I don’t really feel like there’s anything, and Edge is currently a better Chrome than Chrome anyway.

EDIT: and for the record, I’m still upset Microsoft didn’t choose FF and willingly increased Google’s grasp

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Re:I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome by noman-land on Sunday July 17, 2022 @05:05PM (#32131273)
I've been an FF user and developer of many frontends for years and the amount of times I run into serious differences between browsers is somewhere near zero.
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Re:I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome by worik on Monday July 18, 2022 @01:07AM (#32134891)
...in the past decade, for me.

It once was a serious problem. No more

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Re:I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome by CactusOnFire on Sunday July 17, 2022 @03:52PM (#32130542)
I've been on team FF since the switch from IE like 20 years ago- I agree sometimes there is additional jank, but I also want to add that it is rare enough that it's been a non-issue 99.9% of the time.

Even then, I expect some of it is the fact I use an obscene number of plug-ins to break most social media sites (to prevent overuse).

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Re:I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome by g3rv4 on Sunday July 17, 2022 @03:37PM (#32130404)
I built an extension[1] so that I could choose which sites are opened in Chrome... so that whenever I need to use Google Meet, it automatically opens it on Chrome.

[1]: https://onchrome.gervas.io

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Re:I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome by coded on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @09:22AM (#32151059)
Thanks this sounds exactly what I need! Pretty much only use Chrome for Google Meet.
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Re:I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome by abirch on Sunday July 17, 2022 @04:12PM (#32130756)
Microsoft had a huge hit with VSCode. They like Blink/chromium.
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Re:I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome by amelius on Sunday July 17, 2022 @06:07PM (#32131895)
Can you explain that for those not familiar with VSCode?
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Re:I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome by abirch on Sunday July 17, 2022 @07:35PM (#32132662)
Visual Studio Code is built on Electionjs like Microsoft Teams. Electionjs is built on the chromium rendering engine.
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Re:I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome by Ericson2314 on Sunday July 17, 2022 @03:54PM (#32130571)
Yeah I'm still surprised MS did that too.
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