Is Chrome the New IE?

Re:Is Chrome the New IE? by pphysch on Monday November 18, 2024 @02:45PM (#42176147)

The onus is on the app developer to make sure their app runs on a variety of platforms. It's not Chrome's fault for third party developers being lazy and not supporting Firefox.

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Re:Is Chrome the New IE? by lxgr on Monday November 18, 2024 @03:09PM (#42176356)

>It's not Chrome's fault for third party developers being lazy and not supporting Firefox.

What if it's Google themselves? From my original post:

> [...] and that often includes Google sites/apps

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Re:Is Chrome the New IE? by fellowniusmonk on Monday November 18, 2024 @03:39PM (#42176710)

[Citation Needed]

What google site or service requires Chrome?

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Re:Is Chrome the New IE? by lxgr on Monday November 18, 2024 @04:06PM (#42177036)

"AI overview" (which I happen to find really useful) was only available on Chrome and Safari for at least a few months.

Sure, it's a lab experiment or whatever, but these are just words, and the effect is that I have to use a different browser to be able to use them, for absolutely no technical reason. (The LLM is running on Google's servers and provides plaintext. I think Firefox could handle that.)

Just visit this on Firefox if you want to see for yourself, including a big "install Chrome" call to action: https://labs.google.com/search/install

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Re:Is Chrome the New IE? by Kiro on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @12:47AM (#42180389)

Doesn't really support your statement then.

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Re:Is Chrome the New IE? by nasmorn on Monday November 18, 2024 @03:50PM (#42176854)

Meet is as shitty on Safari as Google feels they can get away with

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Re:Is Chrome the New IE? by thayne on Monday November 18, 2024 @05:06PM (#42177642)

I don't know of anything that is completely broken, but some functionality requiers chrome:

On Google Docs, paste as markdown, copy and paste from menus, paste without formatting, etc. only works on chrome. This functionality could be done with standard APIs, but instead google uses a hidden, pre-installed extension to implement it.

Offline mode doesn't work on firefox for either gmail or google docs.

Google doodles don't show up on Firefox Mobile, unless you spoof a chrome user agent.

Youtube has repeatedly had serious performance problems on Firefox.

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Re:Is Chrome the New IE? by tjpnz on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @05:59AM (#42182124)

There are less options for screen sharing on Google Meet.

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Re:Is Chrome the New IE? by spoaceman7777 on Monday November 18, 2024 @03:39PM (#42176718)

Are you objecting to single sign on or something? Or some browser extension that is only published for Chrome? What are you talking about?

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Re:Is Chrome the New IE? by lxgr on Monday November 18, 2024 @04:07PM (#42177051)

Some Google sites explicitly say "install Chrome to use this", e.g. this one: https://labs.google.com/search/install

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