GemAlarmI did not consent to this
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BjörnI hate that I still have to use Chrome because it can do some streaming stuff better than Firefox (and even Chromium for some reason). I only use it to connect to one KVM.
VictorDo the streaming issues resolve themselves ✨magically✨ when faking the user agent to be Chrome for those streaming sites, e.g. using Firefox and a user agent add-on?
CyberEggMany do, yes. Any time I get an error message like “You’re not using a supported browser” that message vanishes after adjusting the user agent.
Well yes, the warning messages will disappear as those are often shown or not shown based on user agent.
But will the actual streaming issues go away is the big question.
Teams on the web for example, worked fine in Firefox even though it warned the user it didn’t work in anything but Chrome.
That’s the neat part - all always do!
ByteJunkMy issues were with h265/HEVC support, proprietary stuff like media codecs can sometimes be a pain. I no longer have that need so I’m a happy fox.
The_DecryptorPretty sure Firefox added support for HEVC a while back, but it relies on the system to provide the decoder (Which you’ll usually have to pay extra for)
Firefox also supports MKV files now, which is nice.
For when I need Chrome, is use Vivaldi. Its probably over bloated for what I need, but it works.
I also use Vivaldi, and I don’t care about the bloat.
I bought the entire computer, I’m going to use the entire computer.
Vivaldi is a great Chromium browser. I’m more of a Firefox/Librewolf on my personal machines, but my work’s software has a few features that only work with Chromium extensions so I had to use it. Was my preferred alternative to all others, while bloated it was highly controllable and didn’t focus on unnecessary features like Brave or others. My work recently banned any browser that isn’t Chrome/Edge/Firefox though, so I guess I’m back to Firefox and will ignore the features I can’t use
When I need to use Chrome, I just use the Chrome Mask extension in Firefox to change my user agent. I haven’t had a site that actually failed to work on the Gecko engine instead of Chromium. It’s just lazy devs checking your user agent to see if you’re using Chromium, and then throwing a fit if you’re not.
Chrome Mask even has a built in site reporter, because broken sites don’t actually conform to modern web interoperability requirements. If it fails to work on Gecko, there’s a good chance that it will also fail to work on other platforms (like Apple’s WebKit) as well. And the reports go to the team that develops Firefox, so they can figure out why the site is refusing to work on Gecko.
Try Brave for this use-case. I find that it works well for all kinds of streaming.
And while it’s no Firefox or Librewolf, it’s still a lot better than Chrome.
AxolotlThe problem with brave is that the CEO is a very bad person, the company also give me sketchy vibes with the crypto stuff they push
Well, sure.
But even then still better than Chrome.
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same i abandoned as soon as they said they were going to slow the browser/computer down for people using private mode. oh and it has no adblock that is good as ublock origin.
Just stop updates.
Just stop using corpo software.
But danger
For real
Everyone who still uses chrome after this insane breach of trust (if there was any before) should seriously think about why he enjoys corporate boot on his neck that much.
I keep thinking back to to the tweens when crypto miners would infect computers. IMO same strategy. Why buy the compute (Data Centers) when you can crowdsource it?
paranoid“I never thought AI would eat my face”
-Person who installed the browser from the AI Face Eater company
For some people, sure - actively choosing chrome despite knowing the kind of company Google has become is silly
But then I think about the people who have chrome pre-installed on their phones, with no ability to remove it. Despite using a different browser, they still got burned by this.
I do believe lemmings have a higher tech literacy than the average internet user, but I also believe tech literacy shouldn’t be a requirement to hide from ai.
The people who boast about using chrome and insist other browsers are trash absolutely had their faces eaten… But the people who did their best to avoid chrome did not
For some people, sure - actively choosing chrome despite knowing the kind of company Google has become is silly
Those were the people I was referring to. I was referring to the people who do know better.
But it’s true what you’re saying as well, about devices where you have no choice. Not very easy to do anything about that.
Leopards are those entities that openly boast about eating your face. It’s not the case with Google. Your average non-IT-savy person knows almost nothing about their shenanigans
Seriously. Chrome is the single worst mainstream browser on the market today, bar none.
Absolutely any choice would be better than Google Chrome.
macnielI’m gonna go on a limb here and say that Internet Explorer isn’t chromium based.
Yeah true; but Internet explorer isn’t supported ever since Edge (back when it was an actual browser and not just a skin of chromium) came out
Internet Explorer is still used by the Windows OS quite frequently. So depending on your definition of “supported” it still kind of is. Plus the internet hasn’t changed all that much, so most websites will work with any web browser.
Fun fact, if you’re a .NET developer, you can actually still use IE. The browser control on winforms is just IE. Those old .NET framework versions will never die so neither will IE.
I actually thought Edge was kinda cool when it first came out with its own engine. Another player in the game, I thought.
Now? How dull.
EdgeHTML was a genuine improvement over the old IE engine, but even MS couldn’t compete against Google in the end.
Software updates have gotten so fucked up in general these days.
It’s so rare that changelogs are published to actually educate the end user about what an update will do. Most of the time it’s just “Bug fixes and feature updates” with no further detail.
Then you update (or, more likely, you left auto-update on) because they guilt you into thinking that you’ll immediately fall victim to a zero-day vulnerability if you don’t. And suddenly everything just gets slightly worse and worse.
More software should just operate along the lines of “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” and preclude the need to install new updates unless something stops working or there is a vulnerability to patch. On my phone at least, I have auto updates turned off and will generally let audience consensus determine if it’s something I want. But it’s still a coin toss if I decide to take an update, because no one bothers to tell you what they really do anymore.
Come to the world of open source.
Where changelogs are detailed and informative, and software updates actually make the software better.
It’s so rare that changelogs are published to actually educate the end user about what an update will do.
One of the games I play did an update called “Nothing update” and it just simply said “Nothing was updated, no need to investigate”.
That update sounds very sus…
Fun fact: when releasing apps on Google Play, you are basically forced to give a proper summary about what the update contains and Google threatens your developer account if you fail to do so. If you want some sour chuckles, check the “what’s new” of YouTube or Google Play itself.
And then they give you a very short character limit in which to do so, thus leading to a lot of summarized patch notes due to those limits.
Stop using Chrome
Without asking
When has Google ever asked anybody before updating Chrome?
or notifying*.
*Except for the
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Announcement video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=56b9uHAcHYc
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Blog post: blog.google/…/ai-mode-chrome/
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Developer documentation: developer.chrome.com/docs/ai/built-in
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And product page: gemini.google/overview/gemini-in-chrome/
Gemini in Chrome: Help right where you need it
Your first mistake was voluntarily using any Google software, especially chrome.
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