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[–] gunpachi@lemmings.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

IMHO, people in corporations should acknowledge that there is a growing user base for Firefox and give it as much priority as chrome. That way people in an organization can at least explore a different browser than chrome (especially the non-tech folks).

The reality is that companies test all their websites in Chrome. Any automation testing will also be focused on Chrome and Safari. Also majority of the developers use Chrome dev tools for debugging. I don't see that changing anytime soon. I feel that Firefox is like a second class citizen in their book.

But hey, that might be a good thing too. All the tracking B.S will be developed for chrome and We can continue to enjoy privacy with good old firefox.

[–] pathief@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Our automation tests run on Firefox on odd days and on Chrome on even days. I don't think it ever made a difference, tho. It's getting harder to create bugs that are specific to Firefox or Chrome. Safari, on the other hand, is a fucking mess.

[–] EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 months ago

Chrome has always been spyware. Ever since the first pre alpha from 15 years ago

[–] HolyDiver@aussie.zone 1 points 10 months ago

i just switched to firefox with ublock origin, it took a bit of getting used to but no real issue. Also started using thunderbird because microsoft pushing outlook (pay or have ads at the top of your inbox) and getting rid of their free mail app pisses me off, seems like big software companies are just getting bolder with their anti consumer practices.

[–] PersonalDevKit@aussie.zone 1 points 10 months ago

Hoping someone can help explain this to me.

I understand Google is making some fairly sweeping changes to chrome that negatively affect the free internet. To what extent does that filter down into.the chromium based browsers? I have been struggling to find any relevant information on this, everyone just talks about it like they are all unique browsers

I have been using Vivaldi and really enjoying it, but it is chromium based, so of course it could be helping to support these changes, indirectly.

Thanks in advance

[–] ipsirc@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is a post from a user who runs Google Android spyware 24/7…

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