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[-] DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world 55 points 1 week ago

"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

[-] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 43 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 38 points 1 week ago

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

[-] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

I wish Microsoft and Google homies would just get beamed into a parallel universe to ruin with their bullshit...

[-] Alk@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago

They already did. We are the other universe.

[-] klu9@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

You and me both, but as long as we allow accumulation of capital, that's not gonna happen, I'm afraid.

[-] amphy@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago

And for when switching user agents doesn't work: ungoogled chromium saves the day

Report the error to the company and to Mozilla.

[-] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

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.

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[-] filcuk@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

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.

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[-] Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

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.

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[-] Zwiebel@feddit.org 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
flatpak install ungoogled-chromium
[-] loomy@lemy.lol 3 points 1 week ago

or appimage, arch or deb

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[-] klu9@lemmy.ca 28 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Is this a Firefox reference?

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago

That looks badass and the perfect advert for Firefox (the browser)

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[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 20 points 1 week ago

Lies, linux user would use firefox or something more libre over chrome

[-] jia_tan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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):

[-] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] mvirts@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

These days if I can't install it with winget I'm not installing it

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[-] Monstrosity@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago

Windows users removing spyware and telemetry while bragging about not having to touch a terminal.

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[-] the_q@lemm.ee 15 points 1 week ago

A Linux user wouldn't use chrome.

[-] Mensh123@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Reminder that Edge for Linux exists.

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

Posting to Linux forum: "How do I enable Copilot in Word using WINE on Linux?"

[-] fluxion@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Edgelord for Linux

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 9 points 1 week ago

A NOD soldier calibrates his mammoth tank in preparation for an attack on GDI forces

[-] auginator@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Librewolf here

[-] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago

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.

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[-] Psythik@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago

I thought we hated AI here on Lemmy?

[-] BaronRivendare@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 week ago

Missed opportunity to say “installing NVIDIA drivers” instead 🤣

[-] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[-] Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

If you're using any of the myriad of apps based on Electron I have some bad news.

[-] easily3667@lemmus.org 4 points 1 week ago
[-] yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

And, as we all know, those two buttons are...

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 5 points 1 week ago
  • Eat all the ram
  • Freeze the whole computer
[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Shoveling in RAM like coal into a furnace

[-] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

I wrote my own browser using WebKit. Chrome is bloat.

[-] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Used to work on WebKit, built my own browser for a while, but damn if they kept breaking qt/WebKit all the damn time.

[-] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

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.

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[-] digitalnuisance@infosec.pub 3 points 1 week ago

I mined and smelted my own silicon. Fuckin' amateur hour out here.

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[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago

If I had a setup like that, I'd start a streaming or video career just to show it off

[-] Krompus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[-] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago

Look at the perspective near his hands, either it's the most crooked console ever or it's AI

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