Let's remember that you still can't make Google Hangouts calls from Firefox.
Works fine for me on FF 73 (Linux)
Google Chrome's fear of Microsoft Edge is revealing its bad side
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Re: Google Chrome's fear of Microsoft Edge is revealing its bad side
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"Never attribute to stupidity that which can be adequately explained by malice" -Hacker News
How about: "Sufficient levels of stupidity are indistinguishable from malice"
Indifference is not stupidity. "My feature is done. I don't care if or how it hurts the user."
Re: Google Chrome's fear of Microsoft Edge is revealing its bad side
#153PSA: if you are not already using it, and you care about the future of humanity, then give Firefox a(nother) go. Its actually quite good these days.
Yep, I consciously switched away from Chrome to Firefox. In benchmarks, Chrome destroys (or at least destroyed when I tried it) Firefox, but I personally have never noticed any slowness from Firefox. I still have like 20+ tabs open every day, and I can do the same things I did on Chrome.
So, Firefox it is for me.
Re: Google Chrome's fear of Microsoft Edge is revealing its bad side
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The sad thing is when Google websites refuse to work on Edge Chromium. Switch your user agent to match Chrome's, you're all set.
Out of curiosity, which sites are these? Do they also similarly break with Firefox or other non-Chrome browsers or only MS Edge?
Google Stadia was one example:
https://www.trustedreviews.com/news/why-stadia-access-blocke...
Re: Google Chrome's fear of Microsoft Edge is revealing its bad side
#155Let's remember that you still can't make Google Hangouts calls from Firefox.
Google fixed Hangouts to work now in Firefox.
Re: Google Chrome's fear of Microsoft Edge is revealing its bad side
#156Earlier quoted context omitted.
The sad thing is when Google websites refuse to work on Edge Chromium. Switch your user agent to match Chrome's, you're all set.
Out of curiosity, which sites are these? Do they also similarly break with Firefox or other non-Chrome browsers or only MS Edge?
Non-Chromium derivatives are blocked as well, yes, but neo-Edge is a Chromium derivative.
Re: Google Chrome's fear of Microsoft Edge is revealing its bad side
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The sad thing is when Google websites refuse to work on Edge Chromium. Switch your user agent to match Chrome's, you're all set.
Same with Firefox.
They shouldn't be blocking Firefox either, but let's be clear-- Chromium Edge makes even less sense given it's a "cousin" of Google Chrome.
Re: Google Chrome's fear of Microsoft Edge is revealing its bad side
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I reckon Microsoft can be even worse considering how much data they gather about you through telemetry built in Windows. Imagine if you're web dev using windows and edge along with vscode. Oof.
> along with vscode For those who don't know about it, VSCodium is a community-delivered build of Visual Studio Code with telemetry removed. https://vscodium.com/
Very helpful links, thanks.
Re: Google Chrome's fear of Microsoft Edge is revealing its bad side
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>The "oops" have begun... Try running gmail in firefox. It's abysmal. A single click takes a few seconds to open email. This is malice, not incompetence. And I'm not even going to get into the whole endless captcha on firefox 'feature'.
I have been using gmail for quite long time. It is getting ridiculously terrible these days (in the past couple of years I guess!) My old laptop fans go crazy when I launch chrome. It’s too much heavy for a mail client. It’s remarkable how we suck at writing software in the past years.
I will have one browser window open, but in my task manager will have like 17 concurrent chrome processes running, slowing things down so much. I understand there are certain things running in the background but it is extremely hard to close out of certain tasks and stop plugins without terminating my entire browsing session.
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I'm on the latest version of Firefox and G Suite mail is quite performant indeed. I don't see where you're getting this.
I don't use Gmail anymore as a primary address, but when I do check my old address, Gmail takes up to 30 seconds to load on Firefox. Emails often take several seconds to delete, and if I close the tab a few seconds after deleting the emails, they don't actually get deleted, even if they appear to. I am not sure what exactly Gmail does on Firefox, but it makes using AOL.com in 2020 feel like a better email experience.
Interesting. Are you exaggerating a bit here or being accurate with those timelines? Cos Gmail is really slow on Firefox for me too, but it doesn't take half a minute to load. More like 10-15 seconds, which in this day and age is a nonsensical amount of time. Similarly operations have a 2-3 second lag. Noticeable to normal users but people like my parents wouldn't be able to see it.