• Squizzy@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I have found a lot of websites over the last few months acting up if I’m using Firefox.

    I have chrome for work and if I switch they work flawlessly. It’s small things like menus not expanding or elements not loading.

    There’s a push on unifying browsers.

    I’ve been Firefox and duckduckgo for years and it’s getting a bit annoying. Obviously the trade off is worth it I do not want the big tech products but finding good alternatives is getting hard.

    DDG has gone downhill in recent years.

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        9 months ago

        I couldn’t submit a support ticket for id.me (the IRS’ stupid commercial partner for Identity verification) when using Firefox, the submit button literally did not work. Worked fine when switching to edge (blegh).

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        9 months ago

        I use Firefox on Linux and FreeBSD for my daily driver.

        I was not able to book flights on Thai airways website 6 months ago until I loaded it in chrome/chromium instead.

        It’s really really rare imo but that’s one example in recent history.

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          9 months ago

          That sounds more like an issue with them using some proprietary browser bullshit than a problem with Firefox.

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            9 months ago

            But what, practically, is the difference? If more and more websites use shit that only works in Chrome or Chromium based browsers, the effect is the same. The web doesn’t work as well for Firefox users.

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              9 months ago

              One is a browser following web standards and the other is a shitty company adding non-standards based development features intended to lock users into there browsers.

              It was shitty when Microsoft did the non-standard features to lock in with Internet Exporer and it is shitty that Chrome does it now.