Browser of choice if Firefox on Linux. For the overwhelming majority of websites, Firefox works just fine. Once in a while though, I run into a problem. So far, when that does happen, I go back in with a Chromium based browser and it will work. Up until now, I’ve been assuming that it’s because the chromium engine is just taking over.
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…I haven’t really tested that, however. It should be a simple as restarting Firefox in troubleshoot mode and see if the problem persist. Yea, I could just give ungoogled-chromium a look but, before taking a step like that, I’d like to verify there’s no way I can just get Firefox to work everywhere.
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Most recent issue I had was booking a hotel through my Hilton Honors account. Ran into problems on Firefox on repeated attempts, worked without issue on Chromium.
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Are others running into issues like this? Is it worth trying to adjust Firefox settings or do I just need to live with a chromium browser as a backup?
Most of the time when I have a site that won’t work properly on Firefox it is because of all my add-ons.
If I use a Firefox-based browser without all those, it works fine.
I occasionally hit a site that blocks Firefox but usually adjusting the user agent will fix that.
whenever I run into problems in 99% it’s an add-on like a “scriptblocker” or a “cookie consent clickaway” - sometimes it helps to load a page in private mode.
Do you use an addon for this?
If you feel the need of a chromium-based browser, I would recommend UGC.
You get the “benefits” of such a browser with all the Google innards taken out.
I did a “non scientific” comparison between between UGC and Chromium some time ago to see what connections they make on a “clean” launch with out of the box settings.
UGC seems to have taken the Wow of Silence.
I already use three different browsers. My experience is that many web pages do not appear completely well in one, then they will be fine in the other or the third. One is Chrome, another is Chrome-based, and the third is Firefox. In the past, I used even more browsers than this, because I also tested them back then.
I did some light HTML coding in the past, and I remember that I used to have to test sites in each browser to check for errors. Sometimes, I’d see minor differences, like a different font or longer site loading times. But there were times when some elements just wouldn’t render, and I would have to adjust the code for that.
This was a long time ago, over 10 years, so I don’t know if HTML5 (or whatever is the standard now) has fixed these issues. But in the past, sometimes the problem was simply that the web developer tested only one browser and gave no thought to check how a site may look in others.
Yes. I need it rarely enough though that I usually install one, do what I need to do and then remove it.
I haven’t been looking at them for quite a while.
Would you mind recommending one/some that you prefer using?
I am not at all confident I use the same one everytime 
I think last time I used this one.
Same one I have tested and it seems to do the job well.
Thanks!
That one I recognize as well from before. It has a “badge of honor” so it must be good.
Hi,
So the simple fact (as I’ve worked in QA for various Financial and Software companies) is projects mainly want to only test in Chrome \ MS Edge (Chromium). So if there is a problem with the website code then it is unlikely to get caught. When my team re-built a banking platform there were several instances where we changed our code to work for both Chrome and Firefox.
Here in Canada there are various TV Websites (e.g. ctv.ca) where firefox regularly breaks with the streaming service. It appears it tends to be related to when they switch between a video stream and a commercial.
Some of you also might have noticed that last month Microsoft moved to its own special Edge\Chromium runtime for Microsoft Teams. So now I can attend voice\video meetings in MS Teams in Firefox. But I cannot call my colleagues directly (unless I switch to a Chromium browser (Vivaldi).
People in the technical realm have been seeing this for a while. Unfortunately we need governments to step in and mandate practices to not create monopolies like what we are seeing with Google.
So “HTML5” are really specifications. So each rendering engine ‘Blink’ (Chromium Browsers) and ‘Gecko’ (Firefox) may take different approaches to implementing the spec.
Typical example might be how defaults might be set in a drop down field or date picker object. I’ve even seen issues where the field did not read correctly in a screen reader.
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Oh I bet you are trying to get youtube video to show faster 
I laughed when I read this story. Google is so petty.
There is also this on Google Chrome regarding Ublock Origin and other Add-ons:
https://www.pcmag.com/news/rip-ublock-origin-google-proceeds-with-plan-to-shake-up-chrome-extensions
That’s what monopoly does, this will draw people to Firefox.