When going to use Adobe express on Firefox it comes up with the following message, saying that this browser doesn’t play well with others and that I should use Safari, Google Chrome, or Microsoft Edge instead.
When going to use Adobe express on Firefox it comes up with the following message, saying that this browser doesn’t play well with others and that I should use Safari, Google Chrome, or Microsoft Edge instead.
So tired of all the asshat sites that only test in Chrome and call it a day. Did none of them live through the IE-only era of the web??
Firefox and Safari are the sole exception to the monoculture that is the Blink engine. Most developers just use whatever comes in the latest Chromium and call it a day - for them accommodating for less than 20% of the market when they can simply join the 80% is wasting time in the long tail of the Pareto rule. Which is why I loathe Google having so much de facto power on the W3C.
Windows is such a shitty platform, with each update they force you to use their browser it’s insane, the ammount of popups and shit they push onto you it’s just crazy. If you browse in windows they sometimes give you web results that you can only see inside of Bing where you get 10 popups to get Edge, now they are introducing some AI Copilot assistant built in into windows that also forces you to use Bing and install Edge in every step you take.
If you want to use Firefox I highly recommend using Linux since Windows is spying to you anway so it’s not even worth bothering with not using Edge on there.
What. I’m no Windows fanboy but this is FUD.
I try to do my part to resist the monoculture by using Firefox everywhere I can, from mobile to my work computers. It’s true that I do run into sites that just break because everybody uses Chrome. Well, I’m somebody who isn’t using it. I will be the change I want to see in the world, even if in the grand scheme of things, it doesn’t matter.
I love Firefox and have used it for years, but lately it’s development seems troubled. Features aren’t working like they used to, and increasingly they are throwing more bloat at the whole thing.
I worry it’s not long for this world at this rate.
Oh yeah, and if the desktop Firefox could just fucking sync my passwords to mobile, that would be great.
My desktop Firefox syncs my passwords to Firefox for Android quite well.
However, yeah, I do think that Firefox’s development over the years has gone a bit awry with the attempt to out-Chrome Chrome. It’s still the best browser out there, though.
Switch to Librewolf and Mull
Librewolf is great but the fact they make it so ridiculously difficult to make google the default search engine is soo dumb.
They are definitely sending a message
Yes, I am sadly well aware of the prevailing situation.
But on the other hand, by and large complete cross-browser HTML compliance is not that hard though. A couple extra couple hours to verify your code works everywhere instead of just the one engine isn’t all that huge a sacrifice. I really feel like probably 9 out of 10 companies are putting up barriers to Firefox just because they are lazy not because it doesn’t work (or couldn’t work with a couple tweaks.)
I mean if we are being realistic vast majority of users use Chromium based browsers and they don’t even see it as worth bothering with, that doesn’t justify anything but just pointing out the mindset of these companies.