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Re: Chrome browser for businesses

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post #18

Is this about replacing one monopoly with another? It is slowly starting too look like in the early 00's, most developers are starting to support only chrome, with no testing in Firefox or latest IE. On Android it is even worse, no one is testing with Firefox Mobile (Fennec) - this is WinXP-IE6 all over again.

Even though it is mostly under the radar, UC Browser is an extremely popular browser for Android in India

Re: Chrome browser for businesses

#42
post #18

Is this about replacing one monopoly with another? It is slowly starting too look like in the early 00's, most developers are starting to support only chrome, with no testing in Firefox or latest IE. On Android it is even worse, no one is testing with Firefox Mobile (Fennec) - this is WinXP-IE6 all over again.

I, For One, Welcome Our New Google Overlords

Re: Chrome browser for businesses

#43
post #19
post #18

Is this about replacing one monopoly with another? It is slowly starting too look like in the early 00's, most developers are starting to support only chrome, with no testing in Firefox or latest IE. On Android it is even worse, no one is testing with Firefox Mobile (Fennec) - this is WinXP-IE6 all over again.

Bingo. One might say the economic system in whole really pushes monopolies or oligopolies.

One might say that if one were completely ignorant of economics and economic history. There are no examples of long running monopolies unsupported by state power.

Re: Chrome browser for businesses

#44
> automatically sign you into all your favorite Google services

I'm dying to do that. "Give me convenience or give me death", as Jello Biafra so well put it.

(Now, if they could make apps not automatically sniff out each other's use of a Google account ... like, keep blogger and maps out of gmail's knickers ...)

Re: Chrome browser for businesses

#45
post #21
post #18

Is this about replacing one monopoly with another? It is slowly starting too look like in the early 00's, most developers are starting to support only chrome, with no testing in Firefox or latest IE. On Android it is even worse, no one is testing with Firefox Mobile (Fennec) - this is WinXP-IE6 all over again.

Yeah, no; most times when you test in Firefox it works just fine with no changes; specially when you already tried on mobile, because if it works in mobile it works on desktop Firefox. The other thing is that major libraries (CSS, JS: jQuery, bootstrap, React) make sure they work on all browsers so you don't have to worry about that part. The winXP-IE6 was hell because that never happened, you always had to changes t…

I use Firefox on Android and often run into web sites that don't work right because they are dependent on some Chrome or Webkit behaviour, and I need to switch the browser to desktop mode to resolve the problem.

Re: Chrome browser for businesses

#46
post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>On Android it is even worse, no one is testing with Firefox Mobile (Fennec) - this is WinXP-IE6 all over again. I'm always surprised why this is the case. Firefox Mobile + UBlock Origin works really well and is only very slightly slower than Chrome, while also blocking ads

Chrome is more convenient in that it syncs everything once you sign in and Firefox sync system just doesn't feel as refined. Probably doesn't help that google plaster "get google chrome" over all of their services.

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Re: Chrome browser for businesses

#48
It's good to see that Chrome's auto-updates can be turned off and updates pushed manually to users at a time of the IT administration team's choosing (I had to dig down into a few links to find this information). But it seems like there's nothing equivalent to Firefox ESR [1] in place, and Chrome would continue to update with the same frequency as the general public release (of the consumer focused version). Does anyone know if a longer term security-only-updates model is available with this like Firefox ESR (just for the sake of curiosity)? When I searched online I found a two year old reddit thread that indicated there wasn't one.

[1]: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/

Re: Chrome browser for businesses

#49
post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>On Android it is even worse, no one is testing with Firefox Mobile (Fennec) - this is WinXP-IE6 all over again. I'm always surprised why this is the case. Firefox Mobile + UBlock Origin works really well and is only very slightly slower than Chrome, while also blocking ads

Chrome is more convenient in that it syncs everything once you sign in and Firefox sync system just doesn't feel as refined. Probably doesn't help that google plaster "get google chrome" over all of their services.

What is Firefox's sync lacking?

Re: Chrome browser for businesses

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post #41
post #18

Is this about replacing one monopoly with another? It is slowly starting too look like in the early 00's, most developers are starting to support only chrome, with no testing in Firefox or latest IE. On Android it is even worse, no one is testing with Firefox Mobile (Fennec) - this is WinXP-IE6 all over again.

Even though it is mostly under the radar, UC Browser is an extremely popular browser for Android in India

Indeed. It's highly customizable.
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