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[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 29 points 3 months ago (7 children)

I honestly can't wait to see how this plays out. Only Chrome, chromium and edge in their pure forms have dedicated to doing this. Most of the Chrome forks have said they're going to fork and keep it running. It's certainly going to give Firefox a shot in the arm, but there's no lack of other competition either.

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[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 28 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (24 children)

What I'm scared is publishers taking this as a reason to simply start banning Firefox and other browsers.

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[–] Oneironaut21@ani.social 28 points 3 months ago

Glad I've finally migrated to firefox...

[–] Beaver@lemmy.ca 27 points 3 months ago

There it is. Firefox and Librewolf will guide us out of this mess.

[–] Lightsong@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I use Firefox but when I watch twitch or wherever, I need Google chrome's live caption to see what streamers say.

Firefox please get this feature asap. So I can delete Google chrome for good.

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[–] Phegan@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago

Please just us in using Firefox.

[–] GoogleSellsAds@sh.itjust.works 21 points 3 months ago (5 children)

If you use anything Google, you are the product. This has been pretty obvious since the early 2000's, yet people dive right into all the crap they release.

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[–] time_fo_that@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Firefox ftw.

I've actually been using Waterfox lately though because for some reason there's a video codec issue on Firefox that makes YouTube videos not play correctly.

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[–] x00z@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago

Laughs in Librewolf

[–] masquenox@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)
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[–] ArugulaZ@lemmy.zip 18 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Gee, what a shame. Good think I switched to FireFox. Hey, does anyone know how to make chat work on FireFox?

[–] spiderman@ani.social 25 points 3 months ago
[–] praise_idleness@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

80% of the websites saying we only support Chromium can be used without any problem by chaning Useragent header

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[–] stevegiblets@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago

Then it's goodbye Chrome.

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Proprietary software sucks, use an open source browser like Librewolf.

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago (5 children)

I know everyone is doing the "use Firefox" thing, but please remember that Acer alone sold almost a million Chromebooks globally in 2023.

Sure, many of those people probably weren't going to use it anyway, but plenty were. I installed it on my daughter's Chromebook that she was forced to use for school.

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[–] suction@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"This destroys the Chrome"

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[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

I use chromium for one thing, and it's casting live sports to my Chromecast. My plans to implement a HTPC have just been expedited.

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