• anonfopyapper@lemmy.world
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      14 hours ago

      Unless…

      You have to use a website that is absolutely necessary for your job or government paperwork, that only works on chromium browsers (and ungoogled chromium doesn’t help)

      • Naho_Zako@piefed.zip
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        11 hours ago

        I was just about to be like, “that’s crazy, I’ve never hsd that happen” And then I remember having to do a online test on Chrome instead of Ungoolged Chromium because the anti-cheat extension refused to work…

      • Almacca@aussie.zone
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        12 hours ago

        Renewing my car’s registration in my state won’t even work in Chrome for me. Same goes for Firefox, which I my current preferred browser. I have to use Edge. :|

        Although that may be due to the extensions I had running.

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      9 hours ago

      None of the browser based COM port uploader tools work on Firefox yet. Like the WLED installer or the ESP32 flash tools.

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          I think Yucandu has (custom) hardware (like something based on an esp32 circuit board) that he wants to flash with new firmware, and you generally do that via a com-port (remnant of an old type of connector). Oversimplified: These days com-ports are simulated over usb, and (for now) only chrome-based browsers can actually send the firware over these simulated ports. An example is the flasher for Meshcore devices.

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            I… Don’t even see why you would want a browser to be able to do that. Seems like really trying to increase browser security issues on purpose.