I would so love if this causes an usage spike for Firefox, so that all websites and webapps start testing for Firefox compatibility again...

Netscape Navigator baby 😎

The majority of people just can’t fucking be bothered, don’t fucking care or are completely unaware that there are other options.

Why did people use Internet Explorer before it?

It's just "the internet button" for most people, the same as Windows is just "the computer" and Android is "the phone".

The idea that you can change out fundamental software components of a modern computing device is alien to them.

When you use Google services there's a very annoying popup "why u no use Chrome" that appears at least once every three week and you can only choose between "ok I give up, install now" and "no, ask me again for the 134th time"

I only have it installed so I can configure my Keychron keyboard.

!technology@lemmy.world

A few days ago, I had to use the Graphite image editor to refine a 3D scene I rendered in Blender. I'm a daily user of Waterfox, but for some reason, whenever I access the Graphite WebApp, it instantly grows in RAM usage, as the whole Waterfox freezes and crashes (which I found out to be a specifically a "core dump" kind of crash when I launched the browser from a terminal). Same for Librewolf. Then I had the idea of accessing Graphite through a spare Chromium (not Chrome, but still a Google thing) I unwittingly have to keep for development purposes, and suddenly it worked without a hassle, it didn't even require that much RAM.

This happens because Graphite, just like many webapps out there, was made with Chromium-based browsers in mind, likely using some esoteric features which are unavailable or badly implemented in Firefox-based browsers (an incompatibility of which indirectly affects Waterfox).

This, I guess, is part of why people still use Chromium-based browsers: because it became indistinguishable from Internet Explorer and its idiosyncratic features (ActiveX) back in 2000s, with most developers (including myself) coding webpages that used said features (think about having to deal with the filesystem: devs would either have to use Java or devs could use the cool FileSystemObject ActiveX; similar thing applies nowadays with some HTML5 APIs that can be quite useful for some webapps but are only properly implemented in Chromium). At least we used to have a "This site is better viewed in IE7 on Windows XP with a resolution of 1024 x 768 and Macromedia Flash Player installed" back then, now webpages can simply crash the whole browser when it doesn't refuse to load after an endless spinning animation.

Don't get me wrong: I would neither recommend Chromium, nor anything Google-related, for anyone, not even my worst enemies (a daily reminder for people, especially we Fediversers, to stop recommending the damn Youtube)... but this is the depressing reality of Web, and IT in general: things (some of which are sine qua non for "living in society" nowadays, such as internet banking and government platforms) that can only function in a specific platform/browser, be it Windows (when it comes to desktop platform), Android (when it comes to mobile) or Chromium (when it comes to the Web).

Fyi, you won't be able to watch videos on Zen if you're on Windows. (Yes, you use Arch btw, and wouldn't be caught dead using Microslop products, thank you random commenter from the future. :^) )

everyone’s parents methinks. i got mine on chrome 15ish years ago and now they won’t stop. “but you’re the one that told us to use chrome…”

i get that a lot. it’s as if they cannot conceive that things that were once good can become shitty. enshittified if you will.

Nope. Ublock lite was made for Manifest V2 depreciation, specifically.

It’s not as effective as full UBlock though. I notice it missing elements or bugging some pages out when I use it on others’ PCs.

I can't really research a topic for work without an adblocker. The experience is too miserable, everything is riddled with advertisements!

Yes, it will. It’s already very finicky with chrome, and it will stop working:

https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam/wiki/Install-AdNauseam-on-Chromium-browsers

This will also be an existential issue for downstream browsers that ship Ublock, like Helium (though forks with their own blocker engine like Cromite or Brave will continue to work).

Firefox for two decades, got tired of Mozilla's bloat and their "AI first company" announcement was the last straw, Waterfox has been great. :)