Comment on Anon doesn't like any web browsers
sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 1 month agoYeah, Firefox works fine for me, problem is a good number of websites on the modern web just actually do not work correctly on Firefox because theyre designed by lazy morons.
Sometimes this can be fixed by just spoofing it and presenting as chrome, other times not.
TheFriendlyDickhead@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I have been using firefox for close to ten years and somehow I never encountered a website that didn’t work at all.
lorty@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Only crappy websites cause problems, and unless it’s something you really need, why bother?
anyhow2503@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It depends on what websites you frequent. The vast majority work fine (though they are still heavily optimized for Chrome and not much else), but there are some exceptions like publishers of educational material or other websites with overzealous ideas of web based DRM. I’ve seen some banners that straight up tell you “You need to upgrade to a proper browser” and then link to the Chrome installer…
sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Yeah, its not that the entire website won’t work, it’ll be some vital part of it.
Various Federal and State and Local government websites will have a captcha that just doesn’t load, or have a search map or filter system that bugs out and doesn’t work.
Happens with a good number of slapdash apartment websites too, and some smaller businesses.
Theres a few things I have to regularly use that just do not actually work on Firefox so I have to keep Chrome around… =(
Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Government websites also seem to like locking into either Chrome or Edge