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    1 year ago

    Why are people spoofing their browser agent?

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      1 year ago

      Some sites that don’t work on FF will work if the site thinks you’re using a Chromium-based browser.

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        1 year ago

        Huh. I can’t remember the last time a site didn’t work in firefox, but worked with a chromium-based browser.

          • EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            I forget what specific site it was, but I recently experienced this with some website a doctor’s office uses for online appointments. The site straight up said that it didn’t work with Firefox and to open it in a different browser. I ended up having to use Edge because I uninstalled Chrome as soon as I had switched back to Firefox.

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            1 year ago

            My local power company’s site is broken in strange ways in Firefox. Bars for recent bill amounts are all the same length, usage page throws an error and won’t open, a link in the dropdown for a home energy analyzer is completely missing.