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[-] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 9 hours ago

I’m sorry, I call bullshit.

I’ve been using Firefox for many many years, and the only sites that haven’t worked were M$ sites explicitly coded to break on Firefox, or were using a technology that Firefox simply doesn’t implement like web serial api, which is admittedly more than one, but it’s an extreme minority.

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 6 hours ago
  1. Web Serial is available now. Recently flashed an esp32
  2. Another site not supported is business.apple.com.
  • Buuut if you switch the user-agent everything I found neccessary suddebly works ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
[-] PokerChips@programming.dev 5 points 8 hours ago

Yeah I wondering if I was just lucky because I never have problems on Firefox or librewolf (which is Firefox).

Usually when I'm asked for computer help by friends or family, I can often save us both a lot of time by just asking, "you're using chrome again aren't you?" Or edge?

But sometimes in a great while Firefox is the "culprit" because it doesn't let abusive sites spy on them and collect so much telemetry.

[-] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 hour ago

There are plenty of over-designed, heavy "Web apps" which don't work correctly in Firefox. My college's Web portal is one.

If you create a support ticket, they tell you to use a supported browser

[-] PokerChips@programming.dev 1 points 7 minutes ago

You're college Web admin sucks. I would use a jailed chromium browser in that case or have a separate cheap computer for browsing shitty websites that I "have to" use.

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