What can we do to keep the web open?

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  • worfamerryman@beehaw.org
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    2 years ago

    Twice in the past few months I came across a site that would not work with Firefox. The other time it actually did work, but said that it recommends chrome to function properly.

    The first one was a local government form that would not let me select boxes, but chrome worked without any problems.

    The second was some 3d game or something like that.

    • shrugal@lemm.ee
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      2 years ago

      This is one of the reasons to use FF. I know it can be a bit inconvenient, but these sites don’t care about optimizing for anything but Chrome because it has such a huge market share.

      And you can keep a second browser installed for the few times this happens, e.g. Chromium or Brave. Also an addon to change your user-agent string for a website works 90% of the time.

    • bingbong@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 years ago

      Look into user agent extensions for Firefox. Sometimes tricking a website into thinking you’re using chrome is enough to get the site to work.