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I am still using Firefox as my main browser, but some sites are broken with Firefox and working fine with Chrome. So unless you are particularly motivated to st

by seren 3y ago

I am still using Firefox as my main browser, but some sites are broken with Firefox and working fine with Chrome. So unless you are particularly motivated to stay on a given platform, practically it does not really makes sense as a user to stay committed.

juujian 3y ago
Interesting, I have not come across any broken websites in a while. Or well, there was a booking website recently where I switched to Chrome to have my booking go through. But it would need to be a lot of those instances before I would even consider switching to Chrome. You have any (anecdotal) stats on how many websites are broken? What kind of sites are those?
- barbazoo 3y ago
  Same, it's mostly Google sites that work better with Chrome, like the GCP console.
  - rozap 3y ago
    Google meet works fine on firefox. The GCP console is an affront to the web on any browser, though.
    - barbazoo 3y ago
      Google Meet doesn't support visual effects in Firefox, e.g. background blurring
      - JohnFen 3y ago
        All the better, in my opinion.
        barbazoo 3y ago
        Some of us need it unfortunately
      - juujian 3y ago
        Interesting, zoom doesn't support that in Linux, either. So I decided that I don't need that feature.
  - tiltowait 3y ago
    I know this at least used to be the case, but is it still? Using Safari, it seems like the GCP console has gotten far better in recent weeks, to the point that I no longer feel the need to reach for a Chromium browser.
    - barbazoo 3y ago
      I spend a lot of time in the GCP log explorer and the UI is very "jumpy" in Firefox. Much better in Chrome.
- seti0Cha 3y ago
  I'm not a heavy Firefox user, but I've seen it as well. I don't remember the specifics, but on a couple of occasions a site would fail to function properly, I'd pop the developer tools open and see a Javascript error, usually about a null object. I'm assuming some sites are relying on Chrome-specific extensions because they don't see enough Firefox traffic to care. I haven't really seen much in the way of broken layout though, which is a big difference from the old "only tested in IE" days.
cebert 3y ago
I use Firefox as my daily driver and have not encountered any sites that work in Chrome but not Firefox.
- SoftTalker 3y ago
  OWA (Outlook Web Access) shows me the antiquated "lite HTML" interface with Firefox on my OS. If I change the user agent to claim to be Chrome on Windows, it shows me the modern UI (which works fine, however it gets the time zone wrong). Accessing Google Docs, Sheets, etc. works OK with Firefox, but if I claim to be Chrome some things don't work. So they are defintely serving up something different to Chrome vs Firefox browsers.
  - ipaddr 3y ago
    That's feature. The light version only takes 3 cores
- _Wintermute 3y ago
  Google slides didn't work properly for me on Firefox a few days ago, all fonts displayed as some ugly serif font. Though I assume this is Google being underhand and malicious rather than Firefox not working properly.
  - drewg123 3y ago
    Google is especially malicious, as they disable the mouse based past options in docs on firefox. This is a pain for users that don't know the paste shortcuts, or who are more comfortable with just using the menus. Sadly, the "dontfuckwithpaste" extension doesn't seem to fix it.
- drewg123 3y ago
  I do too, and I have had great success... until recently, when I noticed multiple sites that don't display all form fields / checkboxes under firefox. Most recently, I was checking into an international flight on aa.com, and there was some checkbox that Firefox was not displaying. I kept hitting submit, and AA kept telling me there was a problem, and it appeared that I'd filled out the entire form. I disabled Ublock, etc, and I could never get it to work. I eventually tried Chrome, and noticed the extra field.

by seren 3y ago

juujian 3y ago

Interesting, I have not come across any broken websites in a while. Or well, there was a booking website recently where I switched to Chrome to have my booking go through. But it would need to be a lot of those instances before I would even consider switching to Chrome. You have any (anecdotal) stats on how many websites are broken? What kind of sites are those?

barbazoo 3y ago
Same, it's mostly Google sites that work better with Chrome, like the GCP console.
- rozap 3y ago
  Google meet works fine on firefox. The GCP console is an affront to the web on any browser, though.
  - barbazoo 3y ago
    Google Meet doesn't support visual effects in Firefox, e.g. background blurring
    - JohnFen 3y ago
      All the better, in my opinion.
      - barbazoo 3y ago
        Some of us need it unfortunately
    - juujian 3y ago
      Interesting, zoom doesn't support that in Linux, either. So I decided that I don't need that feature.
- tiltowait 3y ago
  I know this at least used to be the case, but is it still? Using Safari, it seems like the GCP console has gotten far better in recent weeks, to the point that I no longer feel the need to reach for a Chromium browser.
  - barbazoo 3y ago
    I spend a lot of time in the GCP log explorer and the UI is very "jumpy" in Firefox. Much better in Chrome.
seti0Cha 3y ago
I'm not a heavy Firefox user, but I've seen it as well. I don't remember the specifics, but on a couple of occasions a site would fail to function properly, I'd pop the developer tools open and see a Javascript error, usually about a null object. I'm assuming some sites are relying on Chrome-specific extensions because they don't see enough Firefox traffic to care. I haven't really seen much in the way of broken layout though, which is a big difference from the old "only tested in IE" days.

cebert 3y ago

I use Firefox as my daily driver and have not encountered any sites that work in Chrome but not Firefox.

SoftTalker 3y ago
OWA (Outlook Web Access) shows me the antiquated "lite HTML" interface with Firefox on my OS. If I change the user agent to claim to be Chrome on Windows, it shows me the modern UI (which works fine, however it gets the time zone wrong). Accessing Google Docs, Sheets, etc. works OK with Firefox, but if I claim to be Chrome some things don't work. So they are defintely serving up something different to Chrome vs Firefox browsers.
- ipaddr 3y ago
  That's feature. The light version only takes 3 cores
_Wintermute 3y ago
Google slides didn't work properly for me on Firefox a few days ago, all fonts displayed as some ugly serif font. Though I assume this is Google being underhand and malicious rather than Firefox not working properly.
- drewg123 3y ago
  Google is especially malicious, as they disable the mouse based past options in docs on firefox. This is a pain for users that don't know the paste shortcuts, or who are more comfortable with just using the menus. Sadly, the "dontfuckwithpaste" extension doesn't seem to fix it.
drewg123 3y ago
I do too, and I have had great success... until recently, when I noticed multiple sites that don't display all form fields / checkboxes under firefox. Most recently, I was checking into an international flight on aa.com, and there was some checkbox that Firefox was not displaying. I kept hitting submit, and AA kept telling me there was a problem, and it appeared that I'd filled out the entire form. I disabled Ublock, etc, and I could never get it to work. I eventually tried Chrome, and noticed the extra field.