There’s still Vivali which is Chromium based and still supporting V2 extension (like uBlock) until June 2025. Its not a full fix, but its a stay of execution. That said, I’m a FF primary user.
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Kbobabob@lemmy.world 1 year agoUntil you actually need a chromium based browser. I get so annoyed when this happens.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Mossheart@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I see Vivaldi, I upvote.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I have no idea why people are downvoting it.
datavoid@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
I’m already mad about having to potentially abandon my highly customized Vivaldi should ublock lite not work up to my standards
funkajunk@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Vivaldi isn’t entirely open source, if that matters to you.
Brave would be my recommendation, I just disable the crypto stuff.
XTL@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Brave is a series scam company.
theorangeninja@lemmy.today 1 year ago
Roughly 92% of the browser’s code is open source coming from Chromium, 3% is open source coming from us, which leaves only 5% for our UI closed-source code.
vivaldi.com/…/why-isnt-vivaldi-browser-open-sourc…
Only the UI part is not open source.
Wiz@midwest.social 1 year ago
Brave’s CEO is so anti-gay, he dished out 4-figure checks to fight gayness.
I’m not a fan of that, and Brave has issues with being Chromium-based, like Vivaldi.
RedStrider@lemmy.world 1 year ago
this reads like a yo mama joke
funkajunk@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I’m sorry, but that is an instance of separating the art from the artist, I really don’t care.
skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
In what situation do you need one?
I’ve been using Firefox for over a decade and have literally never once needed to open a different web browser. For anything, ever. This is a very common complaint that tons of people seem to have that I have never seen happen even once out in the wild.
Evkob@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I use Librewolf on desktop and Mull on mobile. I have a few extensions on both, which could definitely contribute to issues. When I have issues (usually government sites or financial stuff, sometimes DRM-related stuff for media) it’s easier to just use a Chromium-based browser with no extensions than try to troubleshoot specifically what’s causing the issues. I keep Falkon (desktop) and Vanadium (mobile) installed for this purpose.
I get the feeling a lot of issues people are having in Firefox might be due to extensions or settings, which gets “fixed” by using another browser (which happens to be Chromium-based because most browsers are) and they blame the issue on Firefox itself.
Flying_Hellfish@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Flashing ESPhome devices. I just had to re-flash one via serial the other day and it requires chrome AFAIK.
Zetta@mander.xyz 1 year ago
I also use Firefox on my work computer, I need to quickly authorize a login in the browser before the local “app” opens (“app” because it’s just a webpage pretending to be an app) and I just recently got a notification that slack won’t support Firefox anymore so please switch to chrome. The fucking animals.
lohky@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Sounds like Salesforce acting like Salesforce.
sunbeam60@lemmy.one 1 year ago
Firefox is getting so small it’s starting to disappear out of the testing matrix. Confluence has issues with it, you can’t always log into Vanguard on Firefox, many news website layouts have overlapping elements on Firefox, quite a few shopping websites too (H&M in Europe has a long-standing but with putting stuff in the shopping basket until they revamped their website a couple of months ago). Etc etc. I see it ALL the time.
suburban_hillbilly@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
Several government websites for the state of Pennsylvania complain and refuse to work if they detect you aren’t using chrome/edge/safari.
bitwolf@lemmy.one 1 year ago
You can spoof your useragent to appear as chrome. And you should as it makes your browser less “unique”
suburban_hillbilly@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
While you can do this, it’s not clear to me that you should. There are a number of additional laws having to do with perjury and misusing goverment sites and while I would undoubtedly agree with you if were you to assert the application of those laws to the utilization of a user agent switcher is a ridiculous overreach, I am just as certain I have no desire to be on the hot-seat the day we all find out.
poke@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Do the sites work if you use an extension that lies to them about what browser you are using?
kent_eh@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Chromium isn’t as problematic as Chrome.
Supervisor194@lemmy.world 1 year ago
As if installing and using something else means you can’t have Chrome lying around for that one stupid website.
Kbobabob@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And I do. Sometimes I’ll just fire up Edge if Chrome isn’t installed since it’s chromium based.
nutsack@lemmy.world 1 year ago
constantly, to be honest
LucidNightmare@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Almost 20 years and I’ve never needed a Chromium browser for anything. I’m sorry you were forced to use such garbage ass software.
BassTurd@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I have chromium installed for the sole reason to cast some streams to my remote TVs. Otherwise it stays closed. I tried some work around with FF, but I couldn’t get it to work. It’s only once or twice a week for live sporting events, so I can stomach it.
LucidNightmare@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I understand where you’re coming from. It’s never happened to me, but if a website didn’t work with Firefox, I would just assume it’s a shit site ran by rookies who know nothing, and move on to a different site. I understand most people don’t have that kind of principle though.
BassTurd@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s not that the site doesn’t work in FF, it’s that casting the stream from that site to a remote TV in the house is only possible in chromium, at least with my current device setup. If I just watch on my computer, I watch in FF.