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Re:Mozilla's midlife crisis: from web pioneer to Google's we... by skepticATX on Sunday October 01, 2023 @09:54AM (#37725977)
It's still worth it because you really don't even have to think about it.

I don't use any Google products/services except when I need to at work. Firefox is perfectly fine for now; I agree that Mozilla's future is concerning but there is absolutely no downside to sticking with Firefox for now.

It's too bad that Mozilla doesn't push for more adoption; the vast majority of users would never know the difference between Firefox and Chrome once they're browsing. It's not like it's an inferior product.

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Re:Mozilla's midlife crisis: from web pioneer to Google's we... by dylan604 on Sunday October 01, 2023 @10:56AM (#37726478)
Except for all of those sites that use chrome specific features so the site puts up an alert saying best viewed in chrome
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Re:Mozilla's midlife crisis: from web pioneer to Google's we... by chaosite on Sunday October 01, 2023 @11:20AM (#37726749)
I have never seen a "best viewed in Chrome" alert. Maybe in a tech demo or something like that. Even Google products work fine in Firefox.
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Re:Mozilla's midlife crisis: from web pioneer to Google's we... by irrational on Sunday October 01, 2023 @12:30PM (#37727609)
I’ve never seen an alert either, but I’ve seen plenty of sites and pages that only work in Chrome. Just yesterday I was trying to pay a credit card bill and the page kept breaking in Firefox. Out of desperation I tried it in Chrome and it worked.
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Re:Mozilla's midlife crisis: from web pioneer to Google's we... by corobo on Sunday October 01, 2023 @01:07PM (#37728025)
Do Slack huddles still require Chrome? That was the most recent one I recall bumping into
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Re:Mozilla's midlife crisis: from web pioneer to Google's we... by waveBidder on Sunday October 01, 2023 @01:48PM (#37728467)
I've almost exclusively seen them on "luxury" apartment websites, where they're completely ignorable . oh, and tidepool, a diabetes data visualization website, where it is actually required.
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Re:Mozilla's midlife crisis: from web pioneer to Google's we... by dorfsmay on Sunday October 01, 2023 @01:49PM (#37728476)
A bank I use rewrote all their sites, bigger fonts, much slower and blocks firefox, and it's not just user-agent.

There are a few government website where I live that block Firefox, although those are just checking the user-agent so easy to work around.

And yes I complain all the time about it.

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Re:Mozilla's midlife crisis: from web pioneer to Google's we... by satellite2 on Sunday October 01, 2023 @11:24AM (#37726775)
It's exceedingly rare and you can almost always discard the warning with no adverse outcome.
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