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We actually dont use chrome (lemm.ee)

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[–] DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world 165 points 1 month ago (4 children)

"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

[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 101 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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.

[–] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 67 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 24 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

I wish Microsoft and Google homies would just get beamed into a parallel universe to ruin with their bullshit...

[–] klu9@lemmy.ca 24 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 9 points 4 weeks ago

You and me both, but as long as we allow accumulation of capital, that's not gonna happen, I'm afraid.

[–] Alk@sh.itjust.works 14 points 4 weeks ago

They already did. We are the other universe.

[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Report the error to the company and to Mozilla.

[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (6 children)

That's basically never an error, but malice. But I admire your naivity :)

[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh, I agree with you. But the more we publicize this, the more pressure we can apply to site devs to support multiple browsers.

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[–] DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thanks! I'll have to give that a try.

[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

You are welcome. Worked fine last time I tried it with e.g. the Teams web client (forced to use it for work still)

[–] amphy@lemmy.ca 10 points 4 weeks ago

And for when switching user agents doesn't work: ungoogled chromium saves the day

[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 35 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

flatpak install ungoogled-chromium

[–] loomy@lemy.lol 12 points 1 month ago

or appimage, arch or deb

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[–] missphant@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I cannot wait for Firefox to finally support WebUSB.

^(I literally cannot wait, it'll never happen...)

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[–] azha@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago

That's why its called "Bloatware"

[–] jia_tan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 114 points 1 month ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (4 children)

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):

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 54 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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.

[–] mvirts@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

These days if I can't install it with winget I'm not installing it

[–] tordenflesk@lemmy.world 15 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Scoop/Chocolatey/WinGet. In that order.

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[–] Monstrosity@lemm.ee 29 points 1 month ago

Windows users removing spyware and telemetry while bragging about not having to touch a terminal.

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[–] klu9@lemmy.ca 54 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (3 children)

Is this a Firefox reference?

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[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago

Shoveling in RAM like coal into a furnace

[–] BaronRivendare@sopuli.xyz 25 points 1 month ago

Missed opportunity to say “installing NVIDIA drivers” instead 🤣

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 22 points 4 weeks ago

Lies, linux user would use firefox or something more libre over chrome

[–] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I wrote my own browser using WebKit. Chrome is bloat.

[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Used to work on WebKit, built my own browser for a while, but damn if they kept breaking qt/WebKit all the damn time.

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 5 points 1 month ago

I miss Galeon ..

[–] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago (11 children)

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.

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[–] digitalnuisance@infosec.pub 10 points 4 weeks ago

I mined and smelted my own silicon. Fuckin' amateur hour out here.

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[–] the_q@lemm.ee 17 points 4 weeks ago

A Linux user wouldn't use chrome.

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 17 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] klu9@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatpak

I also keep Ungoogled Chromium around as a last resort (AppImage in my case).

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[–] Mensh123@lemmy.world 12 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Reminder that Edge for Linux exists.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 15 points 4 weeks ago

Posting to Linux forum: "How do I enable Copilot in Word using WINE on Linux?"

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[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Where is this from and how can I watch it?

[–] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Flight of the NetScape Navigator

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[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Based on the nonsensical chest computer/armour and other garbled elements of the image I'm going to assume it's AI-generated.

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Look at the red buttons by the guy's right hand. They look like a bunch of skittles of different sizes. It is definitely AI

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Because it's cheap greebling. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GbK_98uXAAAaD0I.jpg

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Even cheaply you can still easily find something to make buttons that are of a consistent size and shape. And not put one of them on top of the edge panel of the console like one of them is on the picture. This is a typical telltale sign of AI: things that aren't uniform when they should be and are located in nonsensical places.

There is also asymmetry and sewing lines that make no sense between the left and right gloves and what looks like is supposed to be a pair of pens on his upper right arm is just two nonsensical blobs of crome texture.

No one seems to know about what movie or show this is supposed to be from either...

[–] pitiable_sandwich540@feddit.org 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean, have you ever looked at Start Trek costumes closely? Shit's wild...

Also it's quite grainy and the handle-thingy in the front (bottom right) is out of focus. Not sure AI can be this imperfect yet, though it's just a matter of time.

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[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Looks more like a late 80s movie to me. I assure you, we did not need AI to generate our nonsense for us.

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[–] auginator@lemmy.world 10 points 4 weeks ago

Librewolf here

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 9 points 4 weeks ago

A NOD soldier calibrates his mammoth tank in preparation for an attack on GDI forces

[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 6 points 4 weeks ago

I thought we hated AI here on Lemmy?

[–] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago

Alt-D, "chr", Enter

Who am I kidding, I use Firefox.

[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Well that is because i would have to install it first because i dont have chrome. Librewolf(firefox fork) for the win! Also i have a shorcut for the browser so its literally faster than most people on other systems. I just press super+w

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