• henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    If your website only works with Chrome, it’s not a website. It’s a Chrome site.

    You didn’t design for the web. You designed for Chrome.

    • Zagorath@aussie.zone
      0·
      2 years ago

      That’s not necessarily true. Circa 2016–17 I frequented a website that worked in Chrome but not Firefox. This was due to Firefox at the time not implementing web standards that Chrome did. Firefox only got around to it in 2019. So naturally, the developer of the site was telling people to use Chrome.

      • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago

        I don’t know the history of column span but the reason Firefox was “behind” on standards was because Google was pushing new standards through committee faster than competing browsers could keep up. Google would implement a new feature, offer it as a free standard, then get it through the committee. Because Google already had it in their browser, they were already compliant while Firefox had to scramble.

        It was Google doing their variation of “embrace, extend, extinguish”

        It got so bad that not even Microsoft had the resources to keep up. They said as much when they said they were adopting Chromium as their engine.

      • Lena@gregtech.euEnglish
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        2 years ago

        I agree that Chrome fucking sucks, but it’s disingenuous to call it unoptimized. Chrome and chromium-based browsers are as fast as or faster than Firefox. Although I agree that manifest V3 is horrible to the web as a whole and shouldn’t have been created.

    • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
      0·
      2 years ago

      Chrome is awful in nearly every way one can measure a browser. Anyone still using this as they’re main driver in 2025 is technologically challenged.

      • borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        2 years ago

        It’s wild to see Chrome going from the browser to use if you had any tech sense whatsoever to being universally derided.

        • morrowind@lemmy.ml
          1·
          2 years ago

          Universally derided

          lol try looking outside lemmy. 90% of people still just use it and don’t care

  • BroBot9000@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I’m going to have to go down the rabbit hole of making my own website soon. Just curious but would there be an easy way to show a pop up just to people using chrome?

    No reason in particular… 😏

        • Rose@lemmy.world
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          2 years ago

          Well, some browsers have made User-Agent strings useless. Technically, it’s like this:

          Firefox: “Mozilla based browser, Gecko engine, Firefox.”

          Chromium: “We’re totally a Mozilla based browser we swear. Also KHTML, which is like Gecko basically. I guess also a bit like WebKit. Has anyone ever heard of those? No? OK. Fine, here’s some actual information then…”