• rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1145·
      3 months ago

      Yes, but only begrudgingly.

      (edit) oh no, I’ve said something bad about the lesser evil, and the people who have made it their identity to violently cum all over the first thing that isn’t owned by Google are after me. I hope the pipe bomb hitman is at least polite.

        • atocci@lemmy.world
          11·
          3 months ago

          I just wish Firefox updates weren’t so intrusive. Having it hit me with “Firefox updated in the background, restart to continue using Firefox” while I’m trying to use QuickBooks for my job is so disruptive when QuickBooks doesn’t save automatically and never opens back up to where I left it off. I won’t go back to Chrome, but I never had it pull that sort of forced restart on me.

          • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
            7·
            3 months ago

            Ah. I guess I don’t notice that since I’m on Linux and just update Firefox whenever I want.

            If you go to Hamburger menu > Settings > General > Check for updates but let you choose to install them, you won’t auto update anymore. I agree that would be annoying.

            • atocci@lemmy.world
              3·
              3 months ago

              Thanks! I had no idea this setting existed and it will make Firefox so much more practical for me to use.

            • asexualchangeling@lemmy.ml
              2·
              3 months ago

              I legitimately forgot this used to happen to me on Windows, it’s so convenient being able to update all the software on my system with the click of a button

          • Ephera@lemmy.ml
            6·
            3 months ago

            From what I understand, Chrome doesn’t need to do this, because when you close it, it keeps running in the background and does its upgrades then, which is also pretty intrusive.

            If you’re updating Firefox via the built-in auto-updater, you can tell it in the settings that it should only install updates when you tell it to do so.

        • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
          81·
          3 months ago

          Back in the day, Firefox was literally not as good as Chrome. I personally think that has reversed and it’s now much better than Chrome. Leagues better, now that Chrome is banning UBlock Origin. I do wish we had more competition than just Chrome, Safari, and Firefox though…

  • Faresh@lemmy.mlEnglish
    21·
    3 months ago

    It’s a shame the web got so complex that it has become unfeasible to make a browser engine anywhere near full compliance for anyone that isn’t a large company.

    • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
      6·
      3 months ago

      And I’ve literally heard people say they view Chromium as a reference implementation of the living standard. 😭

      • MrMcGasion@lemmy.world
        11·
        3 months ago

        Chromium is to the modern internet what Internet Explorer was in the mid 2000s. It’s not as stagnant (thankfully), but as far as market share and giving one oversized tech giant arguably too much power over the internet, we’ve basically come full circle.

    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml
      2·
      3 months ago

      There’s no “full compliance”. There’s a set of a hundred or so features and everey major browser supports the most important +/- a few dotzend.