Microsoft Edge is misbehaving.
  • Holzkohlen@feddit.deEnglish
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    8 months ago

    I’d be shocked if Edge installed itself and take over Firefox data in my linux install. Impressed, but also very shocked.

    • Squizzy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      8 months ago

      I have found a lot of websites over the last few months acting up if I’m using Firefox.

      I have chrome for work and if I switch they work flawlessly. It’s small things like menus not expanding or elements not loading.

      There’s a push on unifying browsers.

      I’ve been Firefox and duckduckgo for years and it’s getting a bit annoying. Obviously the trade off is worth it I do not want the big tech products but finding good alternatives is getting hard.

      DDG has gone downhill in recent years.

        • flying_gel@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          8 months ago

          I use Firefox on Linux and FreeBSD for my daily driver.

          I was not able to book flights on Thai airways website 6 months ago until I loaded it in chrome/chromium instead.

          It’s really really rare imo but that’s one example in recent history.

          • snooggums@kbin.social
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            8 months ago

            That sounds more like an issue with them using some proprietary browser bullshit than a problem with Firefox.

            • Skyhighatrist@lemmy.caEnglish
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              8 months ago

              But what, practically, is the difference? If more and more websites use shit that only works in Chrome or Chromium based browsers, the effect is the same. The web doesn’t work as well for Firefox users.

              • snooggums@kbin.social
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                8 months ago

                One is a browser following web standards and the other is a shitty company adding non-standards based development features intended to lock users into there browsers.

                It was shitty when Microsoft did the non-standard features to lock in with Internet Exporer and it is shitty that Chrome does it now.

  • bigFab@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    From the article: ‘So I went to install the same Windows update on a laptop, which actually resulted in it failing and me having to do a system restore. Once the system restore…’

    Who needs to continue reading the article before realizing the malware is Windows itself?

    • stockRot@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      8 months ago

      So either Linux has effortless, painless updates that never break, or Linux is malware.

      Which one is it?

      • bigFab@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        8 months ago

        The difference may be Windows forces to update, while i.e. Ubuntu has several older versions still working.