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Re:Google is already pushing WEI (web DRM) into Chromium by rkangel on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @10:14AM (#36878066)
I switched to Firefox for the idealogical reasons above and was pleasantly surprised to find that it was a net improvement.

The only site I have compatibility issues with on desktop is MS Teams and even then it's only for voice/video calls, everything else works fine.

Firefox Android is a slightly less happy place. The password manager doesn't work very well (am moving away from the built-in one) and I can't log in on Amazon (which is important because I can't buy Kindle books in the app because of the Play Store).

Re:Google is already pushing WEI (web DRM) into Chromium by PawgerZ on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @10:37AM (#36878433)
Interesting. Firefox android works great for me, but Firefox windows gets very slow on my machine. I don't use their password manager on either, though, so I can't attest to that.
Re:Google is already pushing WEI (web DRM) into Chromium by JohnFen on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @10:57AM (#36878763)
> but Firefox windows gets very slow on my machine.

This is why I don't use FF (although I'm on Linux). It's unusably slow for me. My experience is not the most common one (indicating that there's something about my ecosystem that FF hates), but I haven't been able to make FF work in any of the releases starting a couple of years back, I think.

I don't browse on my phone at all, so I won't be using FF there purely for that reason.

Re:Google is already pushing WEI (web DRM) into Chromium by teddyh on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @11:56AM (#36879866)
Is it still slow for you? Have you tested it recently?

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35458746>

Re:Google is already pushing WEI (web DRM) into Chromium by PawgerZ on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @02:22PM (#36882454)
Yes, it's still my default browser -- work and home. I put up with it because I browse far more on my phone than on my computer.
Re:Google is already pushing WEI (web DRM) into Chromium by FooBarBizBazz on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @10:51AM (#36878674)
Firefox Android OOMs whenever it sees an article from The Guardian.
Re:Google is already pushing WEI (web DRM) into Chromium by atq2119 on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @11:13AM (#36879071)
This is just more anecdata, but I'm exclusively using Firefox on Android and have never had issues with The Guardian. In fact, at this very moment there is a Guardian article linked on the front page, and I've visited it without an issue.

I don't doubt your experience, but it's clearly not universal.