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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?

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

Re:Is Chrome the New IE? by Kiro on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @12:47AM (#42180389)
Doesn't really support your statement then.
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
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.

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.