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    [–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago

    A Linux user wouldn't use chrome.

    [–] [email protected] 161 points 3 days ago (4 children)

    "Do you want to import your settings from your previous browser?"

    "Do you want to make Chrome your default browser?"

    "Are you sure?"

    FUCK OFF, I'M ONLY USING THIS STUPID PROGRAM BECAUSE MY ASSHOLE UTILITY COMPANY'S WEBSITE DOESN'T WORK WITH FIREFOX

    [–] [email protected] 98 points 3 days ago (5 children)

    Try user agent switcher. More often than not, websites work just fine with firefox but refuse to load when the browser identifies as not-fascist-google-trash.

    [–] [email protected] 66 points 3 days ago (1 children)

    Had to do that to do my fucking MATH HOMEWORK because Pearson "doesn't work with Linux". Switched my user agent to windows and all of a sudden it works just fine

    [–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    I wish Microsoft and Google homies would just get beamed into a parallel universe to ruin with their bullshit...

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

    They already did. We are the other universe.

    [–] klu9 23 points 3 days ago (1 children)

    I wish Mozilla would use some of their millions to bring a class action lawsuit against sites that pointlessly lock people out just because they're not using Chrome/Safari/Edge.

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

    You and me both, but as long as we allow accumulation of capital, that's not gonna happen, I'm afraid.

    [–] amphy 9 points 2 days ago

    And for when switching user agents doesn't work: ungoogled chromium saves the day

    [–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

    Report the error to the company and to Mozilla.

    [–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago (4 children)

    That's basically never an error, but malice. But I admire your naivity :)

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    Reporting it to Mozilla can still help. Firefox has a built-in list of sites to fake the user agent header for, reporting it could land this site on that list as well.

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    [–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

    Oh, I agree with you. But the more we publicize this, the more pressure we can apply to site devs to support multiple browsers.

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    [–] [email protected] 35 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)
    flatpak install ungoogled-chromium
    
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    [–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (3 children)

    I cannot wait for Firefox to finally support WebUSB.

    ^(I literally cannot wait, it'll never happen...)

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

    It will happen when webUSB is an actual web standard with a proper RFC

    I don't see that happening

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    [–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

    Librewolf here

    [–] [email protected] 113 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

    A windows user downloading a random executable and unchecking all of the boxes that install malware (it is easier than pressing one β€œInstall” button in an app store):

    [–] [email protected] 54 points 3 days ago (3 children)

    I switched my main to linux about a year ago and install everything through terminal at this point.

    I had to download something on a windows system once recently and i was not prepared with how backwards this entire process felt.

    I cant understand how i had stuck with such bullshit for so long.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

    I use chocolatey with win...If I had to use win...

    [–] [email protected] 25 points 3 days ago (1 children)

    These days if I can't install it with winget I'm not installing it

    [–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    Scoop/Chocolatey/WinGet. In that order.

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    [–] [email protected] 29 points 3 days ago

    Windows users removing spyware and telemetry while bragging about not having to touch a terminal.

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    [–] klu9 54 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

    Is this a Firefox reference?

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

    That looks badass and the perfect advert for Firefox (the browser)

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    Somehow I think people here aren't into Soviet propaganda movies

    [–] klu9 3 points 2 days ago

    I see now, this is linuxmemes@lemmy.world, not @lemmy.ml. My bad, comrade.

    [–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago

    Lies, linux user would use firefox or something more libre over chrome

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    Reminder that Edge for Linux exists.

    [–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

    Posting to Linux forum: "How do I enable Copilot in Word using WINE on Linux?"

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

    Edgelord for Linux

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

    A NOD soldier calibrates his mammoth tank in preparation for an attack on GDI forces

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

    #Zenbrowser on #linux

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

    If you're using any of the myriad of apps based on Electron I have some bad news.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

    What is this photo? What’s he wearing on his chest? Looks like some weird PCB with buttons?

    Looks neat, I hope it’s real, but I suspect it’s AIGI.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

    Look at the perspective near his hands, either it's the most crooked console ever or it's AI

    [–] [email protected] 25 points 3 days ago

    Missed opportunity to say β€œinstalling NVIDIA drivers” instead 🀣

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

    If I had a setup like that, I'd start a streaming or video career just to show it off

    [–] [email protected] 27 points 3 days ago

    Shoveling in RAM like coal into a furnace

    [–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago (6 children)

    If anything, I only use ungoogled chromium if a website refuses to work in Firefox. Had a financial fraud and identity theft scam the other day hosted on a Singaporean form service thing that I had to report using that browser because the send report button wasn't working on FF.

    As much as I don't like it, it's probably a good idea to have a backup chromium based browser like ungoogled chromium just in case. Just be sure to not be like me and actually have it in some sort of sandbox rather than running the flatpak on its own.

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    [–] hellfire103 22 points 3 days ago (19 children)

    I wrote my own browser using WebKit. Chrome is bloat.

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    [–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)
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