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Should I use chromium based browsers or firefox? (lemm.ee)
submitted 2 years ago by wtry@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] simple@lemm.ee 145 points 2 years ago (28 children)

What better features? Firefox has pretty much everything nowadays, and is as fast as Chrome.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 87 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

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

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

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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