Greetings! I have recently ditched google and went with privacy focused alternatives. Such as SearXNG, Invidious, Lemmy etc.
However, while i was using degoogled chromium, i cant install extensions.
Is there any way i can install extensions on Degoogled Chromium? (ik this isnt the right place to ask but eh)
Thanks a lot!
Wait… You have encountered a website that doesn’t work on Firefox? :/ Like finding a needle in a haystack.
This is more common than you think. It’s usually not broken entirely, but firefox constantly breaks styling/css stuff on websites I use and build. I’ve had a few sites ask me to switch browsers because firefox doesn’t support x y or z feature too
edit: for example, WebGPU support is currently lacking in FF https://github.com/gpuweb/gpuweb/wiki/Implementation-Status
I use firefox, but I’m not blind to its few problems
Never noticed an issue and if websites using only chrome supported features, it’s an issue with the website, not the browser.
That’s one way to look at it. If a website works perfectly on chromium, but not firefox, why is this the website’s fault?
Because in web development there are compatibility tables of what features work with which browser. If a developer has used a feature poorly supported, they either haven’t done their homework, or intentionally made that call.
In web development, most reputable Front End Devs would not choose bleeding edge, barely supported features even if the temptation was there because the user comes first. Generally, you wait until it has been adopted by the main browsers (chrome, safari, ff).
Frankly, if something doesn’t work in Firefox, thats like <5% market share. Probably lower for a lot of segments. I am familiar with webdev :) Let’s not pretend most devs are checking caniuse for everything. Some sites leverage bleeding edge stuff that necessarily requires chrome, which is also fine. IRL people don’t optimize for Firefox and that’s usually okay, but sometimes there are quirks. That’s all I’m saying
Not perfectly optimised is fine, but non-functional isn’t acceptable. I’ve never seen a quirk personally, and quirks aren’t a good reason to help maintain Google’s monopoly on web standards.
You may say less than 5% is fine, but it could be the margins in a low margin industry. 2% could be 40% of the profit.
I haven’t seen a team operate where a senior isn’t checking it.
Usually the bleeding edge stuff is used by small companies trying to establish themselves because they have nothing to lose and no reputation to protect.
Plus, when you got Browser Stack, you catch a lot of problems like this.
This must be very specific and probably heavly bloated with unecessary stuff? (With probably alot of telemetry and other strange things…)
I have never encountered any breaking of styling/css, except with some specific addons (no-script, heavy dns blocking, ublock in hard mode…)
Not that I doub your claims, but if you have any example on hand I would be very open to give it a try and maybe learn something new in the web realm.
I remember trying to style a range input slider a few years ago and it worked everywhere except firefox. I also had problems with the style of the <select> recently (inverted colors, wrong font). Not a big deal, I still drive firefox daily, but there are idiosyncrasies
Discrepancies between the two systems doesn’t mean there necessarily is a certain number of websites that the average user wouldnt be able to use in Firefox.
You are talking from the creator viewpoint not the end user, thats way different.
All true! I suppose I replied to a comment saying sites were nonfunctional, but that’s more extreme than what I mean. The only nonfunctional sites Ive read about are from hackernews threads talking about WebGPU.
It’s not uncommon to see certain sites to only work on chromium because the dev used the filesystem APIs that don’t exist on FF