Steve GrunwellAug 2, 2023

Regular reminder: if your site or app doesn’t work in Firefox, it’s broken.

I lived through the “this site requires and/or is best in IE” era, and I’d rather burn it all down than return to that.

Pro-tip: Firefox does most things better anyway. Give it a spin and enjoy a less-tracked web.

Show threadthomkennonAug 2, 2023
@stevegrunwell or: Firefox is soft tech fascism, blocking shit by authoritarian default that i want to open. I wish Brave was better or some light non surveillance capitalist alternative. Any recos?
Show threadAngle🖇
@thomkennon @stevegrunwell ...What does it block that you want to open? Only thing I ever have that with is stuff that's not properly encrypted. :/
Aug 3, 2023 at 1:18amWeb
Show threadthomkennonAug 3, 2023
@Angle @stevegrunwell Yeah I prolly should take the time to customize it. A bunch of sites I use frequently (lots of older academic sites) it just breaks and hangs. It's a nanny app and I guess I'm too old and anarchic.
Show threadTopaz, fluffy yip Aug 3, 2023

@thomkennon @Angle @stevegrunwell hmm maybe flipping off the "tracking protection" switch (it's per-site; if the shield icon next to the HTTPS lock isn't (IIRC) purple then it's not involved) could help?

there's HTTPS-only mode but if that was your problem it would throw up a big "page is not HTTPS!!!!", not just hang. Same if it was an older version of HTTPS. Things on the page not loading sounds like a content blocker issue.

Also, of course, if you have any extensions those could be doing it (we have uBlock Origin set to block third-party frames which gets rid of 90% of crap but sometimes breaks things), but you'd know if you have any.

Show threadthomkennonAug 3, 2023
@topaz @Angle @stevegrunwell awesome tips. Thank you!
Show threadTopaz, fluffy yip Aug 3, 2023

@thomkennon @Angle @stevegrunwell Yeah, course! *wag*

Safari has stuff like this as well, now. It's basically a necessity these days.

(If you want better filtering and WAY more control, try the uBlock Origin extension. You can use it with public filter lists, or you can decide /exactly/ what to block on a given site! (Which stacks with the filter lists, you get both.))

Show threadjec&Aug 3, 2023
@thomkennon lol... maybe it's the sites that need fixing, ever thought about that.... ? you have old, broke, probably badly developed and unmaintained sites, but you choose to blame the gold standard for modern browsers instead.

yet you claim to be an academic. I hope this is not the way in which you normally reason and work...