Ciao, Chrome: Firefox Quantum Is the Browser Built for 2017

Post by Tomte » Sat, Nov 25, 2017, 7:39 PM UTC

Manishearth wrote: post #127

Tomte wrote: post #116

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None of the sites where I've been using U2F works. Some/many sites are sniffing the user agent. And as far as I have googled, there may be a bug in Mozilla's implementation (or maybe a different interpretation of the standard) that they are currently fixing.

It's not a bug in Mozilla's implementation. Google has a JS u2f library that relies on an implementation specific detail of Chrome's U2F impl. Lots of folks use this library.

Post by Drdrdrq » Sat, Nov 25, 2017, 7:40 PM UTC

TAForObvReasons wrote: post #72

spystath wrote: post #18

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You'd think that a technology-oriented magazine like wired would at least try to aim for cross-browser compatibility in their infrastructure. But why bother, make your CMS Chrome-only a policy and free yourself of extra testing. And it's not only wired. I've come across a lot of internal sites and intranets that are poorly tested on anything but Chrome. I know, it's not exactly the same thing as the old IE/ActiveX bu…

If Firefox had a larger market share, it would be easy to make the argument for cross-browser compatibility. But when Firefox is not even 12% of Chrome's usage globally http://gs.statcounter.com/ and likely much less for your customers it's difficult to appeal to ideals

Post by mseebach » Sat, Nov 25, 2017, 7:40 PM UTC

infogulch wrote: post #139

mseebach wrote: post #119

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What does the Condé Nast CMS have to do with Chromecast (or other bits of Chrome branding strategy)?

Nothing specifically. I was expanding the specific comment on an instance of Chrome-only compatibility into a general comment on other things Google has been doing to expand it's Chrome monopoly. Maybe the topic deserves a top level comment, sorry if it's placement offended your sensibilities.

Post by cmurf » Sat, Nov 25, 2017, 7:42 PM UTC

PrimHelios wrote: post #25

tony101 wrote: post #9

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Any recommendations for a Google Drive replacement?

It isn't for everyone, but I host my own NextCloud instance on a personal server. Works fine after a bit of tweaking, but it can be a pain to set up.

Post by cmurf » Sat, Nov 25, 2017, 7:45 PM UTC

dheera wrote: post #28

I wish they had some better UX designers. Hit the download button and I get a .bz2 file with no install scripts whatsoever. $ tar jxvf firefox-57.0.tar.bz2 $ cd firefox $ mkdir /usr/local/firefox mkdir: cannot create directory '/usr/local/firefox': Permission denied $ sudo su Password: # mkdir /usr/local/firefox # cp -rv * /usr/local/firefox/ ... # ln -s /usr/local/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox ln: failed to creat…