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.
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.
Zetta@mander.xyz 1 week ago
lohky@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Sounds like Salesforce acting like Salesforce.
Flying_Hellfish@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Flashing ESPhome devices. I just had to re-flash one via serial the other day and it requires chrome AFAIK.
sunbeam60@lemmy.one 1 week 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.
Evkob@lemmy.ca 1 week 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.
suburban_hillbilly@lemmy.ml 1 week 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 week 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 week 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.
bitwolf@lemmy.one 1 week ago
Oh wow I didn’t know that. I’ll have to double check for the states that are relevant for me.
I imagine many people naively install a privacy extension and unknowingly have altered useragents
poke@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Do the sites work if you use an extension that lies to them about what browser you are using?