• Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz
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    11 months ago

    I run into compatibility issues and weird bugs with firefox a lot. I’m still using it as my primary browser, but I have to keep a chromium based browser ready for times when a website won’t work in firefox. I can put up with that personally, but I wouldn’t want to set up firefox on family/friend computers because I don’t want to get a call whenever something doesn’t work and they don’t know why.

    Chrome based browsers also have some super useful features (like tab groups) that firefox doesn’t have a good alternative for.

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      11 months ago

      Interesting. I’ve heard this many times from people here on Lemmy. I’ve been running Firefox for ~6 months now (previously Brave) and haven’t seen these issues yet. I don’t even have a chromium based browser available on any of my devices.

      Regardless, I hear you about not wanting to be personal support for friends and family. That’s annoying

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        11 months ago

        People inevitably bring up compatibility issues in Firefox when this subject comes up, and nobody ever has specific examples.

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          11 months ago

          Proxmox virtual machine server, v8.x the UI is funky and the console doesn’t display properly.

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      11 months ago

      This was the case back when Chrome was starting out too. Everything was made for IE and you’d have to keep it around for the odd time you needed it.

      Eventually those old sites were replaced and now Chrome is the new de facto standard.