Submitted 5 months ago by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
I needed to reinstall Firefox on this computer, so I started up Chrome to download the latest version and it blocked the download as unsafe! I had to manually tell it to download anyway.
Fuck Chrome. I’m glad I only used it to download one file and went back to Firefox.
Are you using a company laptop? Chance that it’s a rule configured by your company’s sysadmin.
I just tried to reproduce this and couldn’t either. I’m also using a mac. Had to download a fresh copy of chrome since I didn’t already have it on my machine and it let me download 121.0 without hiccup. I’m curious what blocked it on yours.
You sure have a lot of tabs for something that you use only once.
You sure have a lot of tabs for something that you use only once.
So, have you filed a complaint yet? www.ftc.gov/…/report-antitrust-violation
I will now, thanks!
Remember when the meme was about Internet Explorer?
IE: What is my purpose?
Me: You download Chrome!
IE: Oh…my god!
Now Chrome isn’t trusted. Even duck duck go is getting dubious. It seems there’s almost nowhere to turn. Your data is their data, and if you dont like it, you can lump it.
What’s up with ducky?
Nothing. Just a misunderstanding that blew up.
Eyy! You took the words out of my mouth! I don’t mind paying for a search engine if it’s good lol
Firefox thinks Chrome is unsafe as well.
Well thats true though…
Enshittification is everywhere.
*knows
At work, we subscribe to Microsoft Defender so that we get a centralised view of potential security issues on people’s computers.
It’s always saying that there’s something wrong with Chrome and it never alerts about the same issues that are almost certainly a problem with Edge.
That’s mildly infuriating too.
Of course! With it’s ad-blocking features, Firefox threatens the Chrome/Alphabet profits! This cannot be legal in a free (to make profits) country! /s
Didn’t happen to me on windows! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I don’t know why you’re getting downvoted; out of curiosity I just now tried it on Windows myself (Google Chrome 120.0.6099.130 Official Build 64-bit) by typing mozilla.org, clicking “Firefox downloads” at the top, and selecting the one for Windows. It sailed through almost instantly.
BUT - just because it worked for me personally on a completely different machine, OS, and installer doesn’t mean OP is misrepresenting what happened to him; competitive app blocking has certainly happened with Edge. For all we know it’s some Google A/B trial bullshit, no telling at this point.
While this could be malice it just as likely could be a complete error. I recently had to download a tool related to x11 on Firefox on windows and it also blocked the download as unsafe. Weirder still, it did this every time I started Firefox until I ended up ditching windows. No idea why.
The irony. I use Vivaldi Browser now and may consider switching to Fennec if Firefox ever implements tab stacks.
What are tab atacks?
Safari and Firefox are good enough for me, especially since I started using the SSD 3 years ago.
And duckduckgo is good enough too instead of google.
my ass
Did you download it over http instead of https? I know firefox blocks http downloads by default now so I could see chrome doing the same
I’d be very surprised if mozilla.org didn’t redirect http to https.
I honestly wasn’t paying attention. I just went to the download page.
iirc there’s a mac setting in systems prefs where you can allow apps to be downloaded from the app store or the app store and unverified developers. by default i believe they have it set to app store only. (system prefs > security & privacy > general)
Yeah Gatekeeper
I’ve noticed YouTube acting funny in Firefox, too. Full-screen no longer works on our Galaxy Tab A using Firefox with ublock. On my PC, YouTube seems to randomly switch audio devices to output to. Neither of those problems exist in Chrome or the YouTube app. They didn’t exist in Firefox either until recently. Almost like it’s intentional…
It doesn’t actually. It’s just an asshole.
sniff sniff is that a class action lawsuit alleging monopolistic business practices?!
This is a bit of an aside, but google releases a lot of security updates for Chrome. Sometimes 2-3 a month. Not sure if Firefox does the same since I only see the notices about Chrome. Not sure if it is a good thing that they fix problems quickly or a bad thing that there are so many problems.
Does it show up when you download other .dmg packages?
Nope. Downloaded GIMP and no problem.
What happens if you download a different executable file?
Started it up and downloaded Gimp. No issue.
People who use chrome instead of Firefox with “betterfox” profile have no idea what they are missing out. It’s so smooth, and privacy friendly
what exactly does it change?
It’s on GitHub, anyone can check for themselves
Well, one way to upgrade Firefox to Betterfox is to upgrade it to a wolf instead and call it Libre.
Haven’t tried the Librewolf, because I’m satisfied with Firefox profile, but looks looks like a great alternative.
Librewolf ftw
Ublock also works better on firefox was using somebody else’s computer who had ubo on chrome and a popup showed up on Kelley Blue Book but the same pop up didn’t show up on ubo+firefox
Don’t download programs off the internet. Use scoop.sh
Does scoop.sh just magically make it appear? Does it use pigeon transport?
It all uses the internet, using a browser to download things that are only available using HTTP anyways is and has always been harmless and completely fine.
Scoop is a proper package manager so it installs the binaries and adds shortcuts to them.
As for where it gets the binaries it comes from a manifest that gives a source URL and a checksum.
Dont download, use apt or winget.
Don’t use winget as its controlled by Microsoft so it is likely to start pushing edge.
apt only works on Debian bases
or brew.sh since this is about a mac
Or flatpak.org if you use Linux
I’m usually all aboard the fuck chrome train, but if I remember correctly it does that with all executable files.
crsu@lemmy.world 5 months ago
My favorite is Edge trying to plead with you not to switch browsers
immarcbtw@iusearchlinux.fyi 5 months ago
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