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Why Bother With uBlock Being Blocked In Chrome? Now Is The Best Time To Switch To Firefox::Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs.

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[-] indigomirage@lemmy.ca 140 points 11 months ago

I love Firefox. Love it.

But I keep coming across sites that don't function properly with it. Is this Firefox's fault? No - Firefox follows standards nicely. But growing numbers of sites don't, and this is a big problem at a micro and macro level.

Chrome seems to have such a foothold that it is getting away with embrace/extend/extinguish and I think it's a very sad thing.

[-] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 78 points 11 months ago

That was Internet Explorer 20 years ago and look where we are now.

I personally can't remember the last time I had issues with a site on Firefox in the last few years since I switched.

[-] rambaroo@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The teams web app was borked for me on Firefox at one point. Idk if it's still like that. Also Google Chat or whatever tf it's called now disables a bunch of features on Firefox.

Still worth it to switch. 99% of websites work just fine. They basically have to intentionally design sites to not work with FF.

[-] Veticia@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

When I was using Firefox I felt like spoofing user agent was essential to make websites work the way they were supposed to. I could loose some rounded corners here and there but it was still better that some features completely missing

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