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[-] mattreb@feddit.it 29 points 1 year ago

On desktop, I'm really wondering why people use it. I mean it's not pre-installed for windows, what makes people choose Chrome in 2023?

[-] ominouslemon@lemm.ee 27 points 1 year ago

To people who don't know any better it's become synonymous with "the internet", much like Internet Explorer in its heyday.

Also, websites saying that they only work with Chrome is a pretty big deal.

[-] odium@programming.dev 17 points 1 year ago

My apartment's website landing page shows a message that you can only access the website from chrome and safari. However, if you go to any sub url, like mainurl.com/login, it works perfectly fine on Firefox.

[-] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Same. I get an “access this site on Chrome instead” pop up every time I clock into work. I can just click through it and Firefox works just fine. But the site is hard coded to give that pop up to anyone not using chrome, even though Firefox works just fine.

I eventually got tired of it, and just used uBlock Origin’s picker tool to delete it.

[-] octobob@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

I am lol'ing at all the messages freaking out about my browser on most websites when I use Internet Explorer on the shop computer that still runs windows 7 and is slow as shit. It's one of those garbo "all-in-one" desktop screen things which is basically just laptop parts from like 2008 crammed in a monitor

[-] Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

I've seen a lot less of that recently and I'm very glad

[-] Godort@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

I use chrome for all my work-related web apps simply because it's more reliable(the app devs fault for not testing anything else)

However I'm also not super worried. My chrome browsing is entirely related to the work I do and all my personal web stuff is done in Firefox.

[-] doubletandard@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

try ungoogled-chromium

[-] xtr0n@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

There are some web apps that only support chrome on windows (or chrome and edge). An app from my doctor’s office refused to run on FF for a while. Thankfully it now has a “try running on unsupported browser “ link so I’m not blocked. (Let’s not get into why I’m running windows)

[-] aeternum@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

chances are high that it will work perfectly fine on firefox. If you come across that again, try changing your user agent string to chrome.

[-] doubletandard@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

you can use agent switcher from firefox add-on and change your agent to chrome browser or whatever you like.

[-] AnonTwo@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Google search engine

"Hey! Install Chrome!"

Even with Edge, google is synonymous with web searching for most people.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Because work approved it and edge. It may suck but it’s not edge.

[-] scurry@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I’ve never used Edge — is it really that bad?

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

It’s not what I wanted. It’s microsoft did a chromium because of course they felt the need to. It adds nothing positive, and they built bad associations by doing a massive ad campaign on it even in windows and by having me associate it with me attempting to search my computer for something only to accidentally wind up in a web search in a browser that isn’t my default firefox.

So is it really that bad? I don’t know but I can’t imagine it’s better than chrome and while I may hate google lately, they still have more of my goodwill than Microsoft does. Chrome at least feels like it has a reason to exist

[-] athaki@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I use it for most of my work browsing since it integrates with SSO with windows azure AD which is nice. It's not particularly great, and microsoft has added a lot of features that I don't find add any value, but it gets the job done.

[-] sour@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

i use for free robux

[-] fox2263@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Better than Chrome, faster and uses less resources. Has a couple of extra features that are annoying and can be turned off. Mostly fine, I prefer Arc on macOS though.

[-] brsrklf@jlai.lu 1 points 1 year ago

Edge has its annoying quirks, but it's a world better than anything IE and it's mostly OK. I wouldn't use it on anything that's mine, but for work where it's set as default browser it does the job (until I have to check something on Firefox).

Bing is still utter shite though. Bing for enterprise has that AI result crap taking a full screen and a half before the real search results start, and if you misclick anywhere it'll get right back to the AI results at the top, most of them being not even close to your query.

[-] sour@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

is "default" because everyone else uses ._.

[-] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

My job uses Google for everything - their office suite and Classroom. I’ve got Chrome on my computer just for work.

[-] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 5 points 1 year ago

Those work on Firefox.

[-] BadAdvice@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Comes on me phone. Comes on me chromebook. Simple as

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