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Should I use chromium based browsers or firefox?

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Chromium has better features, but with google announcing its plan to ‘drm the internet’ I 'm not sure if it’d be a good idea.

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Otter@lemmy.ca
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From the comments I’m noticing a trend

  • Google Chromecast issues
  • Not allowed to do background effects in Google meet

and from personal experience:

  • issues using the store to update add-ons on Google docs
  • can’t authenticate desktop Google drive

I use a lot of Google products, but avoid Chrome because of nonsense like this. Firefox works fine for everything else EXCEPT certain Google products. Feels intentional

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Sabata11792@kbin.social
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100% intentional. If you spoof your browser signature most work just fine

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Lemminary@lemmy.world
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Same with Edge and Microsoft with their Bing bullshit. Big anticonsumer bullies and they wonder why their online share is stuck.

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redcalcium@lemmy.institute
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Google Meet background effects actually work in Firefox if you spoof Firefox user agent to Chrome, I kid you not.

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TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee
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It should work soon without it. Google is just being google and takes its time to fix the problem they created in the first place.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1703668#c66

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Aggy@kbin.social
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I have the same experience. At my last company they only used Google meet so I had chrome on my computer just for meetings and nothing else.

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pHr34kY@lemmy.world
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The only time I use chromium is to attach a debugger to GWT (yes, the “G” stands for Google). It runs like absolute trash in Firefox.

Everything else runs better in FF.

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