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Firefox is a great alternative to Google Chrome

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

what i want to understand beyond just "did you know chrome bad" is why laymen are so insistent on it.

so we can break it.

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

Because my bank only works on chromium. Please break it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

oh fuck, this one always hurt. simulating chrome through a user agent swap works?

what stops you from using firefox for everything else?

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

No. Its the fingerprinting that breaks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

(primarily firefox user here) the Google account being able to be used as a universal login is sorta convenient (at the expense of privacy) Snapchat web (at least previously) requiring it to work (or at least it's user agent) and an all in all slightly cleaner (more samey) experience.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

i mean if you login with google on any google site on firefox, it will also log you in to everything....

and being cleaner is a matter of habit tbh, they look very similar