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1034 points deryilz | 2 comments | 12 Jul 25 19:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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RockstarSprain ◴[13 Jul 25 00:29 UTC] No.44546421[source]▶
Would love to give Firefox a chance but one thing that stops me (apart from occasional website loading bugs) is inability to install PWAs. Not sure why it’s not implemented like it has been for a long time in Chrome and all its forks.

I have found a 3rd party extension that claims to facilitate this (0) but still feel uncomfortable to use this for privacy reasons.

(0) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/pwas-for-fire...

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rs186 ◴[13 Jul 25 00:51 UTC] No.44546529[source]▶
If you really care, it's ok to just Firefox for the majority of your web browsing activities but use Chrome or a fork for PWA.

Although using Firefox increasingly means a worse experience, including:

* infinite loop of Cloudflare verification * inferior performance compared to Chrome (page loading, large page scrolling) * subtle bugs (e.g. audio handling) * WebUSB support

I have personally run into all of them. Some are under Firefox's control but others are not. I do still use Firefox for most websites unless it's technically not possible, but unfortunately the exception is happening more and more.

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1. paulryanrogers ◴[13 Jul 25 04:09 UTC] No.44547415[source]▶
I don't run into CAPTCHA loops with Firefox. Have you tried changing your user agent to pretend to be Firefox on Windows or Mac? I've heard Linux users are more likely to be interpreted as bots.
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2. rs186 ◴[13 Jul 25 12:45 UTC] No.44550031[source]▶
The machine is on a corporate network, that's the issue. I don't have issues when

1) using Chrome/Edge on that same machine on corporate network 2) using Firefox on Linux on corporate network 3) using Firefox on Windows on my own machine at home

Unfortunately.