310 points

If your website only works with Chrome, it’s not a website. It’s a Chrome site.

You didn’t design for the web. You designed for Chrome.

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Fuck chrome. Such a dogshit unoptimized spyware browser that now disables ad-blocking plugins

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I agree that Chrome fucking sucks, but it’s disingenuous to call it unoptimized. Chrome and chromium-based browsers are as fast as or faster than Firefox. Although I agree that manifest V3 is horrible to the web as a whole and shouldn’t have been created.

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6 points

It also eats up like 99% of your CPU

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7 points

Their plugins were fucked from the beginning. You never had control of your extensions.

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The problem for me is that the built-in translator is too convenient

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54 points

Pretty sure Firefox have that too

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Firefox has translation now, too, on both mobile and desktop.

And you can optionally add the Google Translate extension to desktop Firefox if you want. (It really is convenient, isn’t it?)

And you can always just plug in the URL of whatever page you’re trying to translate directly into https://translate.google.com/.

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0 points

Real. Only thing i pop microsoft edge open for. Firefox’s one is too slow.

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31 points

Chrome is awful in nearly every way one can measure a browser. Anyone still using this as they’re main driver in 2025 is technologically challenged.

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32 points

It’s wild to see Chrome going from the browser to use if you had any tech sense whatsoever to being universally derided.

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4 points

Universally derided

lol try looking outside lemmy. 90% of people still just use it and don’t care

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21 points

I just design for IE6

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7 points

An Antiquarian I see. Carry on my good fellow!

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4 points

I do this, but unironically.

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1 point

I code raw html in notepad as god intended

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That’s not necessarily true. Circa 2016–17 I frequented a website that worked in Chrome but not Firefox. This was due to Firefox at the time not implementing web standards that Chrome did. Firefox only got around to it in 2019. So naturally, the developer of the site was telling people to use Chrome.

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I don’t know the history of column span but the reason Firefox was “behind” on standards was because Google was pushing new standards through committee faster than competing browsers could keep up. Google would implement a new feature, offer it as a free standard, then get it through the committee. Because Google already had it in their browser, they were already compliant while Firefox had to scramble.

It was Google doing their variation of “embrace, extend, extinguish”

It got so bad that not even Microsoft had the resources to keep up. They said as much when they said they were adopting Chromium as their engine.

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8 points

Google was actually later to implement this particular standard than Edge and Safari, at least according to MDN. And I believe this was before Chredge.

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I’m gonna be honest, if they used a feature that wasn’t ready for prime time, it’s still on them.

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Totally agree. It’s not the fault of Firefox at all. This is just being trigger-happy on new standards before they are ready and unwillingness to fix a problem in a different way.

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It got added because it worked extremely well on browsers that implemented it, and it solved a problem that was needed on the site in question, which was very difficult to solve otherwise. I can’t blame a site for using an open standard that works for a majority of its users and which makes the development effort significantly less.

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This was due to Firefox at the time not implementing web standards that Chrome did.

Uhm, yeah, that’s what browsers do. There are somewhere about 150 web standards and some are hard requirement while others are soft. Blink has some implemented that Webkit hasn’t but Gecko has and that’s true for all three. Same for browsers.

Btw, the one with the most implemented standards is QtWebkit by far. It’s still slower tho.

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Yeah? I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with that. I’m saying it’s bullshit to say a developer has done a crap job when one browser doesn’t implement a web standard that is perfect tailor-made for their site’s use case.

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If only one browser runs it, it’s not a standard

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81 points

I like this template so much better than the Spider-Man one that people constantly use backwards.

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But this one’s also backwards? I haven’t seen the movie, talking purely about the two photos.

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95 points

In the movie the glasses let the wearer see the truth. This template is often used backwards but it’s correct in this case.

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15 points

What’s the movie?

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75 points

My website only works with Chrome, but it has to be a specific old version of it. And you also need to install some extensions. Very specific versions of these extensions. Few of them already removed from the store due to security backdoors.

I have a Docker image you can use to run Chrome though.

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35 points

What version of Docker do I need to run your container?

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45 points

You’ll need my fork of docker, and you’ll need to apply a patch.

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21 points

Can I run your patched version of docker on docker?

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13 points

At that point, just release your website as an electron app.

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36 points

When developing photon I always end up with more issues on chrome browsers than firefox. and half of those are because of its god awful scrollbar. Please use an overlay scrollbar instead of shifting the stupid page around, chrome.

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10 points

ugh yeah classic chrome am I right? (I forgot how to center a div)

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28 points

Or… The client wanted a WordPress site and that’s just the result of it.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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