"Do you want to import your settings from your previous browser?"
"Do you want to make Chrome your default browser?"
"Are you sure?"
FUCK OFF, I'M ONLY USING THIS STUPID PROGRAM BECAUSE MY ASSHOLE UTILITY COMPANY'S WEBSITE DOESN'T WORK WITH FIREFOX
Try user agent switcher. More often than not, websites work just fine with firefox but refuse to load when the browser identifies as not-fascist-google-trash.
Had to do that to do my fucking MATH HOMEWORK because Pearson "doesn't work with Linux". Switched my user agent to windows and all of a sudden it works just fine
I wish Microsoft and Google homies would just get beamed into a parallel universe to ruin with their bullshit...
They already did. We are the other universe.
I wish Mozilla would use some of their millions to bring a class action lawsuit against sites that pointlessly lock people out just because they're not using Chrome/Safari/Edge.
You and me both, but as long as we allow accumulation of capital, that's not gonna happen, I'm afraid.
Report the error to the company and to Mozilla.
That's basically never an error, but malice. But I admire your naivity :)
Oh, I agree with you. But the more we publicize this, the more pressure we can apply to site devs to support multiple browsers.
I doubt it's malice as often as a cost saving measure presented in a scummy/lazy way.
The simple fact is that all browsers load pages differently.
If you want to minimise cost, you'll optimise the site to the most popular browsers.
Firefox, unfortunately, is at the very bottom of the popular browser list.
There's absolutely nothing else that most sites gain by promoting Google.
Except, as of recent, a lower likelihood of user having an ad blocker.
In the case of Pearson, malice is a safe assumption.
Reporting it to Mozilla can still help. Firefox has a built-in list of sites to fake the user agent header for, reporting it could land this site on that list as well.
Is this a Firefox reference?
That looks badass and the perfect advert for Firefox (the browser)
Lies, linux user would use firefox or something more libre over chrome
A windows user downloading a random executable and unchecking all of the boxes that install malware (it is easier than pressing one “Install” button in an app store):
I switched my main to linux about a year ago and install everything through terminal at this point.
I had to download something on a windows system once recently and i was not prepared with how backwards this entire process felt.
I cant understand how i had stuck with such bullshit for so long.
These days if I can't install it with winget I'm not installing it
Scoop/Chocolatey/WinGet. In that order.
Some info on each for the uninitiated: https://daftdev.blog/2024/04/01/chocolatey-vs-scoop-vs-winget---which-windows-package-manager-to-use/
Windows users removing spyware and telemetry while bragging about not having to touch a terminal.
A Linux user wouldn't use chrome.
Reminder that Edge for Linux exists.
Posting to Linux forum: "How do I enable Copilot in Word using WINE on Linux?"
Edgelord for Linux
Librewolf here
A NOD soldier calibrates his mammoth tank in preparation for an attack on GDI forces
If anything, I only use ungoogled chromium if a website refuses to work in Firefox. Had a financial fraud and identity theft scam the other day hosted on a Singaporean form service thing that I had to report using that browser because the send report button wasn't working on FF.
As much as I don't like it, it's probably a good idea to have a backup chromium based browser like ungoogled chromium just in case. Just be sure to not be like me and actually have it in some sort of sandbox rather than running the flatpak on its own.
I thought we hated AI here on Lemmy?
Missed opportunity to say “installing NVIDIA drivers” instead 🤣
Well that is because i would have to install it first because i dont have chrome. Librewolf(firefox fork) for the win! Also i have a shorcut for the browser so its literally faster than most people on other systems. I just press super+w
If you're using any of the myriad of apps based on Electron I have some bad news.
Shoveling in RAM like coal into a furnace
I wrote my own browser using WebKit. Chrome is bloat.
I mined and smelted my own silicon. Fuckin' amateur hour out here.
Used to work on WebKit, built my own browser for a while, but damn if they kept breaking qt/WebKit all the damn time.
Ah, I am using WebKitGTK.
Currently version 4.1, though, as 6.0 is not supported on GTK3, and upgrading the project to GTK4 would possibly require a complete rewrite.
What is this photo? What’s he wearing on his chest? Looks like some weird PCB with buttons?
Looks neat, I hope it’s real, but I suspect it’s AIGI.
Look at the perspective near his hands, either it's the most crooked console ever or it's AI
If I had a setup like that, I'd start a streaming or video career just to show it off
Hint: :q!
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