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[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Your information is probably no longer accurate then. Firefox has undergone many significant updates even within the past year, and it's very likely those tools are now fully functional, as I'd suspect at some point they'd have been reported on Bugzilla.

I have to access many US government web sites regularly, including the US IRS web site, and I never have a problem.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

Back when I was studying computer engineering I was also an avid fan of firefox and I also kept hearing and parroting those lines. Eventually I gave up and stuck with chromium based browsers. (Also because of other reasons, like some extensions only being available for chrome, html games support, etc)

US and portuguese governments are in different leagues. I would assume that yours has better funding and spends more on their virtual infrastructure. I doubt they are comparable, but it is possible that they fixed those issues that I had meanwhile

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

That used to be true, and I keep Chrome and Edge installed just in case, but honestly I haven’t had to use a different browser in years.

Any web page problems that I found turned out not to be Firefox related.

But if you like Chrome, there’s nothing wrong with that either.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

To be clear, I don’t like Chrome itself, I use Edge and sometimes Brave.

Depending on how the whole DRM and adblock thing goes, I might come back to firefox.

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