• SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Google keeps taking L’s and firefox keeps taking W’s. If they keep going maybe firefox will be most used browser again

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      I hate that I have to keep chrome on my machine because some sites I visit don’t work well, or at all, on Firefox.

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        I’ve heard a lot of people mention this recently and I must live a charmed life because I’ve never had this happen. There was I think maybe, once where I was having a problem with a site and it said that I needed to use a browser like chrome so I begrudgingly did and it still didn’t work so I don’t count that as an example and other than that, I’ve just never seen it. In fact I’m pretty sure it’s not since about 2001 that I’ve seen any website give me shit with only working on certain browsers and that was sites designed to work on IE6 or something.

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          Just had it happen yesterday with the the students loan simulator. It wouldn’t work on Firefox and kept getting hung and freezing. Opened it in chrome and it worked perfectly first time.

          It’s not common, but enough that I keep chrome installed for now.

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          I’ve used several sites that just won’t scroll in Firefox. Coursera is awful for this and a lot of job sites seem to use the same library because they have the exact same issue

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          When someone sends me links to instagram on my phone, firefox mobile can’t play the thing, I’m forced to open the link in chrome to watch the video. There are lots and lots of websites and webapps that don’t work or barely open on firefox. I’m forced to regularly open every week a few links on chrome/chromium on my computer as well. Although the amount as reduced a lot, some years ago it was worse.

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        The most annoying thing is the website that insist on displaying a banner everytime you visit to tell you that it won’t work on Firefox. And then it works perfectly fine

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          both are still just chromium and as such still subject to google’s bullshittery like amp, manifest v3 and web integrity

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      and here i am stuck using chrome, firefox doesn’t install properly. i’ve tried a bunch of times. i have a chromebook.

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          This was suspicious back when IE became incorporated to File Explorer circa Windows 98.

          Now it’s just business.

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          i tried installing linux but i don’t have enough memory for it. my storage is small (32 gigs).

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                4 gigs should be enough for a distro. depending on how far you are willing to go you can even end up with 1 GB or less ram usage at idle. and storage shloudnt be a problem either. i had some distros that take up like 4 gig (storage, not memory)

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                  the linux that i downloaded was over 10 gigs storage. how were you able to find something for 4 gigs?

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                    Well that’s the thing, i gave up on convenience. Basically you have to use a distro with less stuff included and add only the stuff you need.

                    You can google/bing/[whatever search engine you use] something like “lightweight/small distro”.

                    I for example am running arch. In arch you only have a terminal and have to install almost everything yourself. Like your desktop, apps, etc.

                    Now this can be a hassle but also a great learning opportunity.

                    If you want to go this route i recommend you use arch with the archinstall script at first (search youtube for arch install with script or something like that) and learn try the system. Now if you want you can try to install it the “arch way” (without script) using the arch wiki as reference (even i struggle with that even tho i’ve already done so)