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[–] abfarid@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago (6 children)

There's really no reason to be mad at them in this particular instance. Their client is Chromium-based (Electron) so they will optimize their new features for that engine first. There's probably less than 5% users who Discord from browser, let alone Firefox, and I think I'm being generous with that number. Additionally, some things are harder to implement (or even impossible) in native web rather than Electron, that has all the NodeJS integrations.

[–] ehrenschwan@feddit.de -1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

File upload is not a chromium feature, it's a super old basic feature. It's just their pittiness and upcoming drm implications. I bet if you set your user-agent to chrome it woould work just fine.

[–] NotAPenguin@kbin.social -2 points 2 years ago

Firefox doesn’t implement the AudioData API, which is probably necessary for the waveform viewer and cropping tool Discord presents in the soundboard management UI.

Not everything is about Chrome DRM yall.

Edited to add screenshot of spoofing user-agent on Firefox and getting an error:

https://midwest.social/pictrs/image/4edb0d24-0c2a-4610-b7b2-eed07a3c7d24.png

Here’s what happens when you spoof a Chrome user-agent.

https://midwest.social/pictrs/image/d3b96401-956b-4eab-bc5c-64b0743feae4.png

-kibiz0r@midwest.social

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