Comment by ofrzeta

Comment by ofrzeta a day ago

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Still currently Firefox is the best option we have, don't we? In terms of compatability and features anyway. For years working as a full-stack developer I stubbornly sticked to Firefox and it has served me well.

dlcarrier 13 hours ago

Yeah, outside of Chromium forks the only other option is Gecko-based browsers. I use Seamonkey and Palemoon, to avoid the Mozilla Foundation's shenanigans. The performance isn't great, and I have to occasionally restart anything running on the Gecko engine, althogh the latter is also true for Chromium forks.

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squircle 21 hours ago

I work across the stack but necessarily use the browsers end users are working with. Also, I can't pay my fecking credit card on Linux or any browser other than Edge. Whatever tho. A hammer is a hammer.

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  • dv_dt 18 hours ago

    Not being able to use Firefox for banking or finance is something that hasn't happened to me in years. When it did happen, it was usually fixed with a simple workaround of sending a custom user agent string.

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    • guenthert 17 hours ago

      I think e.g. Capital One is using Wasm, yuck. That needs to be enabled (it is by default in Firefox).

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  • CrankyBear 19 hours ago

    Ah... I use Chrome on Linux, and it works just fine for banks and credit cards.

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    • fortyseven 18 hours ago

      Same. It's exceptionally rare for Firefox to fail me and force me to use a different browser. I'm when it does happen, it's either a Chrome specific feature, or a failure of the developer.

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      • freedomben 18 hours ago

        It's not (just) Firefox to blame. It's ramp.com, mailgun, and these other big apps that don't bother testing on Firefox. You can't even login on these

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