What can we do to keep the web open?

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  • worfamerryman@beehaw.org
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    1 year 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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      1 year 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.

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      1 year ago

      If it’s a random site, then fuck it, I’ll just not visit it again. That’s their issue, not mine. If it is something important, I’d try changing the user agent. That works most of the time.