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Why Bother With uBlock Being Blocked In Chrome? Now Is The Best Time To Switch To Firefox (tuta.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Why Bother With uBlock Being Blocked In Chrome? Now Is The Best Time To Switch To Firefox::Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (4 children)

some websites don’t work on Firefox

Are you sure? Is there a list of these websites? I've been primarily using FF for a decade and haven't encountered any.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Same. Usually it's a case of "the site is broken on both", or a hard refresh is needed, so switching browsers feels like it works

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I've had a couple straight up tell me I had to use Edge/Chrome recently.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've had some map sites that just refuse to work on ff

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Have you tried spoofing your User Agent to Chrome with a user agent switcher extension? The site might actually work in Firefox.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I never had that issue, untill starting last week. Now Google Maps won't work, for some reason.

It worked for years before that, it's a recent thing, in my case at least. Makes me wonder what's going on.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Unfortunately there really are websites that don't work in Firefox. Not a nice list, but issues should be reported here: https://webcompat.com/issues?page=1&per_page=50&state=open&stage=all&sort=updated&direction=desc&q=label%3Abrowser-firefox%20usable

Personally, I have been using Firefox for years and will continue using it.

Firefox also has a builtin list of overrides at about:compat

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I've ran into a few in the last year or two. I also can't flash things like ESP32s (ESPHome) using Firefox for some security reasons, but this is fine as I'd rather be safe than sorry with my main browser.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don’t have any specific list. But I have ran into a few issues with Firefox. (mostly on my IPhone) In my experience Firefox on Mobile is just up to par with Desktop.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Last I checked all browsers on IOS are required by Apple to be basically a reskinned Safari.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Firefox on iOS is Safari under the hood.