~$ chromeor click the chrome icon in your app menu. You’re welcome.“Do you want to import your settings from your previous browser?”
“Do you want to make Chrome your default browser?”
“Are you sure?”
FUCK OFF, I’M ONLY USING THIS STUPID PROGRAM BECAUSE MY ASSHOLE UTILITY COMPANY’S WEBSITE DOESN’T WORK WITH FIREFOX
Try user agent switcher. More often than not, websites work just fine with firefox but refuse to load when the browser identifies as not-fascist-google-trash.
Had to do that to do my fucking MATH HOMEWORK because Pearson “doesn’t work with Linux”. Switched my user agent to windows and all of a sudden it works just fine
I wish Microsoft and Google homies would just get beamed into a parallel universe to ruin with their bullshit…
They already did. We are the other universe.
I wish Mozilla would use some of their millions to bring a class action lawsuit against sites that pointlessly lock people out just because they’re not using Chrome/Safari/Edge.
You and me both, but as long as we allow accumulation of capital, that’s not gonna happen, I’m afraid.
And for when switching user agents doesn’t work: ungoogled chromium saves the day
Report the error to the company and to Mozilla.
That’s basically never an error, but malice. But I admire your naivity :)
Oh, I agree with you. But the more we publicize this, the more pressure we can apply to site devs to support multiple browsers.
These companies typically have management take the IT advice from their IT managers, and if those intentionally block non Windows/Google/fascist software, you don’t find anyone in the organization willing to listen to you. The only way to fight this is by not doing business with them whenever avoidable.
Reporting it to Mozilla can still help. Firefox has a built-in list of sites to fake the user agent header for, reporting it could land this site on that list as well.
Mozilla fakes the user agent for sites without a plugin? oO - that is news to me, but fair point in that case…
Oh yeah, not just UA overrides but other fixes as well. You can see them at about:compat
I doubt it’s malice as often as a cost saving measure presented in a scummy/lazy way.
The simple fact is that all browsers load pages differently.
If you want to minimise cost, you’ll optimise the site to the most popular browsers.
Firefox, unfortunately, is at the very bottom of the popular browser list.There’s absolutely nothing else that most sites gain by promoting Google.
Except, as of recent, a lower likelihood of user having an ad blocker.In the case of Pearson, malice is a safe assumption.
Thanks! I’ll have to give that a try.
You are welcome. Worked fine last time I tried it with e.g. the Teams web client (forced to use it for work still)
flatpak install ungoogled-chromiumor appimage, arch or deb
Yup, I like using a combo of ungoogled chromium and librewolf depending on which works better for certain websites or web apps . To me, Linux is about using the right tool for the job.
I cannot wait for Firefox to finally support WebUSB.
^(I literally cannot wait, it’ll never happen…)
It will happen when webUSB is an actual web standard with a proper RFC
I don’t see that happening
YES. I have to keep chrome installed on at least one desktop or laptop if I want to flash firmware on ESP devices.
It sure would be nice to have WebSerial as well. For some reason Mozilla seems to think users can’t be trusted with it. They could at least add a compile time option to enable it. If someone knows how to compile a browser, they are probably smart enough not to give random websites access to their devices.
That’s why its called “Bloatware”
A Linux user wouldn’t use chrome.
A windows user downloading a random executable and unchecking all of the boxes that install malware (it is easier than pressing one “Install” button in an app store):
I switched my main to linux about a year ago and install everything through terminal at this point.
I had to download something on a windows system once recently and i was not prepared with how backwards this entire process felt.
I cant understand how i had stuck with such bullshit for so long.
I use chocolatey with win…If I had to use win…
These days if I can’t install it with winget I’m not installing it
Scoop/Chocolatey/WinGet. In that order.
Some info on each for the uninitiated: https://daftdev.blog/2024/04/01/chocolatey-vs-scoop-vs-winget---which-windows-package-manager-to-use/
Based
I can’t believe to update on windows I have to navigate to a webpage, download the newest installer, and go through the process…
FOR EACH PROGRAM
Windows users removing spyware and telemetry while bragging about not having to touch a terminal.
A Linux user running random commands to add a new repo that points to malware (their package manager does not have the program they want by default)
Note: I just did this to install Librewolf, Mullvad, and VS Codium
No flatpak?
Is this a Firefox reference?
That looks badass and the perfect advert for Firefox (the browser)
Somehow I think people here aren’t into Soviet propaganda movies
I see now, this is linuxmemes@lemmy.world, not @lemmy.ml. My bad, comrade.
Librewolf here
Lies, linux user would use firefox or something more libre over chrome
Reminder that Edge for Linux exists.
Posting to Linux forum: “How do I enable Copilot in Word using WINE on Linux?”
Edgelord for Linux
A NOD soldier calibrates his mammoth tank in preparation for an attack on GDI forces
Missed opportunity to say “installing NVIDIA drivers” instead 🤣
Shoveling in RAM like coal into a furnace
I wrote my own browser using WebKit. Chrome is bloat.
Used to work on WebKit, built my own browser for a while, but damn if they kept breaking qt/WebKit all the damn time.
Ah, I am using WebKitGTK.
Currently version 4.1, though, as 6.0 is not supported on GTK3, and upgrading the project to GTK4 would possibly require a complete rewrite.
How do you do security patches?
Recompile with updated libraries. There’s probably a better way, but it’s further down the list. This thing doesn’t even support downloads yet.
I hate, hate, HATE GTK.
Sorry, it’s visceral, can’t stand using GTK apps, but really hate the framework, it is just so badly hacked together, and QT spoiled me forever.
Need to build one again, this time with a python wrapper, wrote one for VLC and it’s spoiled me too.
Is it a “traditional” web browser or yet another Gnome header bar app?
i3 and homemade web browser - this guy is legit
Looks good
Thanks!
Probably too bare bones for what I would look in a web browser, though. Still refreshing to see someone with a WebKitGTK browser not mimic Gnome Web.
I miss Galeon …
That’s a great username
I mined and smelted my own silicon. Fuckin’ amateur hour out here.
i just memorized the entire web so i dont need to browse anymore. browsers are bloat
Did you publish it? What’s it called?
I call it Magellan. It’s nowhere near ready for production use, though.
If anything, I only use ungoogled chromium if a website refuses to work in Firefox. Had a financial fraud and identity theft scam the other day hosted on a Singaporean form service thing that I had to report using that browser because the send report button wasn’t working on FF.
As much as I don’t like it, it’s probably a good idea to have a backup chromium based browser like ungoogled chromium just in case. Just be sure to not be like me and actually have it in some sort of sandbox rather than running the flatpak on its own.
I was under the impression Flatpaks are sandboxed. (I am not an expert.)
Flatpak is a utility for software deployment and package management for Linux. It provides a sandbox environment in which users can run application software in (partial) isolation from the rest of the system.
I also keep Ungoogled Chromium around as a last resort (AppImage in my case).
Flatpaks are as sandboxed as the sandbox settings you give them, check out if the defaults are satisfactory on Flatseal before running it.
Flatpak is not a sandbox
Thanks for the info.
Personally, I’ve been avoiding Flatpaks anyway on my main machine, but not out of security concerns. Mainly to do with size and the update frequency.
Even the author says Flatpak is a sandbox.
The most simple but also least effective sandbox type is the container or wrapper sandbox that builds an isolated process environment and then executes the target application inside.
Flatpak provides an isolated runtime environment using a container type sandbox to execute the target application inside.
… there are two issues that prevent flatpak from providing a real sandbox environment…
Just that it’s no true scotsman, I mean sandbox.
Flatpak does provide the sandbox. It’s up to the developer to use it properly.
If you’re using any of the myriad of apps based on Electron I have some bad news.
What is this photo? What’s he wearing on his chest? Looks like some weird PCB with buttons?
Looks neat, I hope it’s real, but I suspect it’s AIGI.
Look at the perspective near his hands, either it’s the most crooked console ever or it’s AI
