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    [–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

    ~$ chrome or click the chrome icon in your app menu. You're welcome.

    [–] [email protected] 164 points 1 week 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

    [–] [email protected] 98 points 1 week 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.

    [–] [email protected] 66 points 1 week 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

    [–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

    [–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week 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.

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

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

    [–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

    They already did. We are the other universe.

    [–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Report the error to the company and to Mozilla.

    [–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (6 children)

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

    [–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week 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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    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week 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)

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

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

    [–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)
    flatpak install ungoogled-chromium
    
    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

    or appimage, arch or deb

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    [–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    I cannot wait for Firefox to finally support WebUSB.

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

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    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

    That's why its called "Bloatware"

    [–] [email protected] 114 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 β€œInstall” button in an app store):

    [–] [email protected] 54 points 1 week 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.

    [–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

    [–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Scoop/Chocolatey/WinGet. In that order.

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    [–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago

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

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    [–] [email protected] 54 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

    Is this a Firefox reference?

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    [–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago

    Shoveling in RAM like coal into a furnace

    [–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago

    Missed opportunity to say β€œinstalling NVIDIA drivers” instead 🀣

    [–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago

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

    [–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (5 children)

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

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week 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.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week 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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    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

    I miss Galeon ..

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    [–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

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

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    [–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

    A Linux user wouldn't use chrome.

    [–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week 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.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week 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.

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

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    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Reminder that Edge for Linux exists.

    [–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

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

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    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

    Where is this from and how can I watch it?

    [–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Flight of the NetScape Navigator

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    [–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week 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.

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week 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

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week 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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    [–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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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    [–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

    Librewolf here

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

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

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

    I thought we hated AI here on Lemmy?

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