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Tom_bishop ,

Without this fiasco, i would’ve still use chrome. Yeah, now i use firefox.

Sheeple ,
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I used to use edge. Switched to Firefox and started using duckduckgo out of protest after my pal got screwed over by Google products

FlyingSquid ,
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In my former job, I had no choice but use Chrome due to work rules. If I couldn’t have installed uBlock at the time, it would have killed me. So I hope for people like me, there’s at least an adblocker that has a small chance of working in Chrome.

Flaky ,
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Vivaldi has an adblocker built-in but has no cosmetic filtering unfortunately. I did ask and they said it’s been prioritised given the MV3 problems.

FlyingSquid ,
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If they were in my situation, installing another browser was not an option, but installing Chrome extensions was still possible.

Flaky ,
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In that case, it’s best to hope the workplace enables the enterprise policy.

FlyingSquid ,
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Well that sucks.

ParetoOptimalDev ,

I’m curious if “must use browser X” is a deal breaker for many people.

Would you quit a job for forcing a specific browser?

seasick ,

For me it was the OS. We agreed, when I started my job, that I would use Windows but that I would eventually switch to Linux, which I did a few months in. If they wouldn’t allow it, although agreed upon, I would have left - which I did anyways, but for totally different reasons

superweeniehutjrs ,

If you are concerned about things like PWAs like I was, try it out anyway. PWAs require a bit more setup, but are a lot more flexible in Firefox. For example, PWAs with http connections have a huge banner in Chrome, and just an icon in Firefox. Everything I’ve noticed is that firefox is just as snappy as Chrome

qaz ,

I thought PWA’s didn’t work on Firefox. That’s good to know, because I’ve been using chromium specifically for PWA’s.

gila ,

Same here, I tried the PWAsForFirefox extension a few years back and found the setup to be too much of a pain in the ass compared to the Chromium forks. I tried again around 9-12 months ago when Manifest V3 drama was making the rounds and found the extension had been overhauled and that’s no longer a problem. As a bonus each PWA is a self-contained browser instance, so performance is improved when only the PWA is open, and extensions are per-PWA. So I can run only Purple Adblock on my Twitch PWA, or only uBlock for Youtube, etc.

I_Miss_Daniel ,

I’m using them heavily as well. Mostly good. Painful though when moving between computers as you have to set them up on each one. If they can get it to sync eventually that’d be handy.

surewhynotlem ,

What PWA do you use? I think they’re a neat idea but I haven’t come up with an actual use case yet.

I_Miss_Daniel ,

Gmail x2. Pulse SMS. Keep. Calendar. Whatsapp, Facebook, Messenger. All as task bar icons.

I used to use Chrome for this but every now and then it’d break and they would either open in the wrong profile, or they’d add a tab to the main browser rather than opening as a window.

gila , (edited )

I just use it for any tab which I always have open, so they’re organised on my taskbar. That way I don’t end up with 40 tabs of like 5 different websites that I just pathologically open up a new tab for each time I revisit, having to scan through them all each time I want to switch to find one from before. That’s an ADHD thing though. Effectively for some websites I want the tab to always be pinned and easily accessible with a large icon for a visual cue, and this way that all happens automatically

superweeniehutjrs ,

Any idea how to get links clicked in a PWA like Google Messages to open in a normal browser tab? I’ve tried nothing.

gila ,

Go to the PWA settings and enable “Open out-of-scope URLs in a default browser” and restart your PWAs.

smileyhead ,

Why would I use a PWA on the desktop?

superweeniehutjrs ,

I mainly use them when I want something windowed but without tabs taking up space. Like monitoring my solar panels

acockworkorange ,

Aesthetic and productivity. Which are good reasons.

Let’s say you access your company ERP system through a PWA, or the HR system. You want to alt tab back and forth to it like a regular app. You’re checking supplier data on the web and entering it on the system. It’s a lot easier to do so if your ERP is an app. But if it’s not available as a native app, PWA is a good alternative.

akilou ,

Any numbers from Mozilla about increase in usage or anything?

Synthead ,

I like how they mention Internet Explorer.

Buffalox ,

Internet explorer was the shit in 1992. That’s only 30 years ago, not everybody is quick to switch. 😜
There’s also an icon for Navigator, and none for edge. LOL
Maybe they needed an image that was out of copyright?

Dasnap ,
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Its biggest selling point was that it was bundled for free with Windows 98 while Netscape Navigator was still a pay-for product.

Buffalox ,

Yes apparently I remembered 3 years wrong according to Wikipedia, I am pretty sure we got Internet Explorer for Windows 3.11, as a separate free product, but Wikipedia states it was released with Windows 95 plus pack in 1995. So 28 years old not 30. But the plus pack although moderately successful cannot compete with being included with Windows 98. The last good Windows version, where you could boot to dos, and fix everything in Windows if they were broken. NT all the way up until Windows 11 sucks IMO. Bad design.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer

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