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.

  • Otter
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    1 year ago

    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

    • Sabata11792
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      831 year ago

      100% intentional. If you spoof your browser signature most work just fine

      • Lemminary
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        111 year ago

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

    • Aggy
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      51 year ago

      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.

    • @pHr34kY@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      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.