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.
Chrome browser for businesses
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Re: Chrome browser for businesses
#42Is 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.
Re: Chrome browser for businesses
#43Is 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.
Re: Chrome browser for businesses
#44I'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
#45Is 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…
Re: Chrome browser for businesses
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>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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>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.
Re: Chrome browser for businesses
#50Is 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