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I'm relatively new to Linux. What is the preferred solution when a website demands a chrome-based browser? I installed Chromium for these cases, but is that frowned upon? My daily driver is tor-based and it's rare but not unheard of for a website to complain.
Lie to the website
For those not aware, parent means a UA changer. there are addons for firefox or your chosen browser that allow you to change your user agent to something that chrome uses. In almost all cases, this will be enough to use the site with firefox.
Chromium. Ungoogled Chromium if you really hate Google. Or Firefox with a user agent switcher.
I don't know what websites y'all are going to where this is such a commonly reported problem, but I've been using Firefox for over 10 years and I've literally never once seen this problem.
Trying to configure my keyboard through the VIA site. It needs HID and mozilla wont do it because unsafe. I get that it is not so smart to expose your usb devices to your browser but being able to enable it for a session would also be fine...so i had to install chrome.
Yeah only chrome has the webusb support, I use ungoogled chromium whenever I need to use webusb.
Use an extension that spoofs the user agent, usually works fine (for what I came across at least).
There was a period Netflix drm refused to run on Firefox
That has an altogether different kind of solution !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
I was merely providing an example, you don't need to convince me :)
but yeah its mostly drm of different kind
I've had a few that will work on Firefox if not on tor. I know one website (my mortgage company) that specifically asks for "Chrome-based" and lists several such browsers as options.
Teams forces you to use chrome or their god awful desktop app
Mobilepay app requires you to have chrome installed to login to it
Recommended actions include boycotting the organisation and/or turning your internet off for 2 weeks to recover.
I use Vivaldi on the rare occurrence I need to flash an ESP board, since Firefox doesn't support WebSerial. It's the most privacy-centric chromium-based browser I've heard of.