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Netflix doesn't serve maximum res for Linux and Firefox due to DRM related reasons. Chrome on Linux usually resolves or at least amends the issue.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/netflix-1080p...
Why are people on HN still using Chrome? (or Edge, or Opera…)
Since it underpins so much of the modern browser ecosystem it becomes a primary target for webapps to work. As such, if you want to be sure a website will work you use chrome. Since chrome has such a market share, developers feel justified testing primarily for chrome. Self-fulfilling cycle.
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For me it's speed. I used FireFox for the same reasons, for years. Every time I started Chrome, it was a breath of fresh air. Everything was just slightly faster to react, to switch tabs, to scroll, to interact. I kept reading posts about how the FireFox team was increasing performance, yet it never seemed to really impact it. Maybe because I often have several windows with a dozen tabs each (yes, one of those people…
> Every time I started Chrome, it was a breath of fresh air. Everything was just slightly faster to react, to switch tabs, to scroll, to interact. Well, with unblockable ads coming to Chrome, that will no longer be true. There is no world in which browsing on Chrome with ads is faster than browsing on Firefox without ads. > Is it any better? Does anyone know, for real, not a marketing blog post? Well, since moving fr…
You've been arguing strongly (condescendingly, really) against people making (what you see as) uneducated claims about Firefox. Yet there you are, doing the same with Chrome.
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Some pages do not work in Firefox, so I keep a copy of Chrome around. It’s a bit like with Internet Explorer which back in its day was also needed for some stubborn sites.
Name and shame?
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> No, you don't support Linux Here you go, official beta flatpak: https://orionbrowser.com/download/oriongtk-early-beta
Any idea if that browser will ever go open source? I don't mind flatpaks but would rather just have some of my tools installed on my distro (which can be monumental to maintain).
Why are people on HN still using Chrome? (or Edge, or Opera…)
I'm a Firefox user for about 20yrs (since Firefox 3); but too often I have to use Chrome, as so many sites only work properly on it; Firefox is really buggy or laggy on those websites; For a time, all those AI chat web pages were just very slow on Firefox even with very little context, whereas Chrome only gets laggy when there is a lot of context.
Why are people on HN still using Chrome? (or Edge, or Opera…)
Edge user here. For one, chromium is faster than firefox, any given page will load about 20% faster, another reason is edge workspaces feature, I've grown to like it, which seems to be some sort of chromium feature that everyone bakes in weird ways if at all, and I'm still running ublock origin on edge without any funky bypasses. Then there's a fact that a bunch of sites/webapps straight up refuse to work on firefox…
> Then there's a fact that a bunch of sites/webapps straight up refuse to work on firefox and they ask you to install chrome or something.
This is rare in my experience. And most were fixed with an extension to change the user agent string. Or were for amusement and used a new Chrome feature. Or used a feature Mozilla rejected for security and there were alternatives.
[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/features/workspaces?for...
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