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Most "Chrome-only" web applications I have to use I can get around just by changing my user agent string and everything works fine. I try not to use that stuff when I can, though.
This is my experience. They are just taking your default agent and throwing up a message because they can’t be assed to do minimal testing in FF.
Some of the older stuff is indeed that way, but there are more and more features which Firefox can’t support. Web-based custom keyboard configuration tools, tools to flash phone firmware, and one niche MiniDisc tool all are chrome-only things I’ve had to open Chrome to use
we are really really better off without features that grant any website such deep access to our systems just by a single click, trust me. this is a security nightmare, especially looking at people who don't understand computers and those who instant allow permissions by reflex.
Yep. Forgot I had to use Chrome on Windows to flash GrapheneOS.
you don't have to, there's no need for that. they have a normal flashing tool too
Wait is this real? That's hilarious
https://grapheneos.org/install/web#prerequisites
Technically it works on Linux, but I didn't feel like installing a Chromium browser to do it at the time.