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.

  • ZenbyBosatsu@lemmy.today
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    11 months ago

    I’d largely like to agree. My main issue is as others have said, some websites don’t work on Firefox due to Chrome basically being the standard. It’s annoying. And I do think people should still switch and try their best to stop using Chrome. Because IF we could get to a point where Firefox has a larger audience than it already has, the problem may end up stopping due to developers having more of a need to make sure their stuff is cross compatible with other browsers.

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      11 months ago

      I’ve been using Firefox as my main browser for a long time. Sites that don’t work in FF are very rare. If it’s something I really need to access, I just use chrome/edge for that particular site. But as I said, it happens rarely, and there’s an easy way to work around it.

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            11 months ago

            Decades old Firefox user here.

            In the last week or two both Discord as well as Google Maps started not to work, they basically freeze up during/after they load, almost freezing up the whole browser as well (struggle to close the tabs they are on).

            The weird thing is they both always used to work great up to just very recently, and nothing else has changed on my desktop, except for the normal OS updates semi daily.

            (Speaking of the desktop version, on Fedora Linux.)

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      11 months ago

      some websites don’t work on Firefox

      Are you sure? Is there a list of these websites? I’ve been primarily using FF for a decade and haven’t encountered any.

    • oce 🐆@jlai.lu
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      11 months ago

      Can you list the websites? I feel like this issue is sufficiently rare to be inexistent for the vast majority of users.

    • blueson@feddit.nu
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      11 months ago

      I agree, run Firefox as your main and then a privacy focused fork of Chromium as your second if you need it for specific website.

      Personally I barely ever encounter issues with websites running FF.

    • vinhill@feddit.de
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      11 months ago

      You can file web compatibility bugs on bugzilla.mozilla.org or webcompat.com

      There are different ways how bugs are fixed. But someone might reach out to the page itself, find and fix a bug in Firefox or change the web specification if the incompatibility arises from ambiguity around the feature definition.

      Firefox can also ship an intervention, basically injecting code into certain websites to fix broken ones.

      Some incompatibilities can arise from missing features in Firefox, the web constantly evolves and the Devs sometimes don’t catch up. But bugs might still help, as high compatibility-risk features might be implemented more quickly.