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It is essential to stop using Chrome. Under the pretense of saving users from third-party spyware, Google is creating an ecosystem in which Chrome itself is the spyware. (mastodon.world)

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[+] [email protected] -9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

So my gut instinct is to go to Firefox (again), but how can it compete? It’s down to like 2% market share, there’s a serious portion of the web that Firefox just can’t render anymore, and there’s all this press about the CEO getting this monsterous golden parachute.

So realistically what can anyone do but continue to use the only browser people ever really test sites for anymore, or swear allegiance to either Microsoft or Apple?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I've been using Firefox exclusively for close to twenty years now and non-compatible websites are extremely rare. I'm sure there are industry-specific shortcomings but for general usage it's always been acceptable at worst. And its market share is close to 7%.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I've only encountered 2 websites that didn't work properly in Firefox and it was only intermittently

Those 2 were Google Play Music and YouTube Music, and both were fixed within a few days. Basically it worked fine, then something broke, then Firefox patched and it worked again.

It was also right around the time Google Play Music was set to die.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Firefox can always compete, because if it ever stopped existing Google would have an antitrust case on their hands. For the same reason, Google cannot violate web standards, like what has happened in previous browser wars.

I don't agree that Firefox is unable to render a portion of the web, I've been using it for years and have never once run into a website that had a problem with my browser. I thought once that studentaid.gov did, but that turned out to be a problem with extensions. I've seen more websites that have issues with me using Linux than with Firefox.