Comment on Microsoft now pops up a poll asking why you'd want to use another browser when you download Chrome

• TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  All browsers on iPhones are skins for Safari.

  Blame Apple for that bullshit.

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  • JasSmith@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Blame Apple for that bullshit.

    This one isn’t on Apple. There’s nothing stopping Firefox from having translate on iPhone. It’s on Chrome and Edge.

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    • TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Isn’t translation feature available as an addon? Afaik iPhone version of Firefox doesn’t have addons.

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      • JasSmith@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It’s available as an add-on for Firefox on PC. Language translation is built into the application for Chrome and Edge on iPhone.

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• Steeve@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I don’t own an iPhone, but this seems like a totally fair criticism and I don’t see any replies refuting it, so what’s with all the downvotes? I swear to god this place is ridiculous sometimes, these people won’t be happy until you jump through every hoop imaginable to use the Lemmy approved software. Only positive feedback allowed!

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  • sir_reginald@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    because this is inherently Apple’s fault and not Mozilla’s.

    Apple’s the one forcing every browser on iOS to be a reskinned version of Safari. And it’s perfectly understandable that Mozilla doesn’t want to waste time developing features for a Firefox-branded Safari.

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    • Steeve@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What’s your point? The dude gave a perfectly valid reason to not using Firefox, regardless of who’s fault it is.

      But also, how on earth would building a functional browser for a phone that owns 55% of the US market share be a waste of time and resources?

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      • sir_reginald@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        it’s a perfectly valid reason for not using Firefox, my point is that they’re on the wrong platform. It’s the user’s own fault, because they chose a closed platform like iOS. Developing free software for iOS is a waste of time, since everything is under Apple’s tyrannical rule and they get to decide which web engine you use, they can disallow extensions and make it very hard (and against their ToS) to sideload apps.

        I don’t like Mozilla at all, and that’s why I use Firefox derivatives and not Firefox itself, but I’m glad they don’t waste time developing for a re-skinned Safari. Those resources are best used in their own web engine.

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  • JasSmith@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I am also confused. I didn’t know phone browsers were a team sport, but here we are.

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• Damage@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Firefox Sync doesn’t work on iPhone?

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  • JasSmith@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    No, Firefox on iPhone doesn’t translate. I don’t want to use Chrome on iPhone and Firefox on PC because they don’t sync between each other.

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    • TheFriendlyDickhead@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Doesn’t translate to what…

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      • 520@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Human languages. French to English, German to Arabic, that kind of thing.

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    • jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What are these non human languages that it translates?

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      • SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I assume machine code and programming languages, but it’s a weird way to say it regardless

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