Why Chrome only?
Why Chrome only?
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Holy shit, Canon convinced you to install a mobile app? Who's holding the gun to your head? We'll dispatch authorities as soon as possible.
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If it's trying to talk to a device over Bluetooth or USB, it's not supported in Firefox. Mozilla refuses to implement WebUSB because they think the danger of letting people accidentally flash malware onto a physical device outweighs the benefits.
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Welcome to the browser wars. This has been going on a long time now.
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always give a bad rating and if possible create a support request. let them know.
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I just downloaded firefox focus, and etsy wont let me log in with it because it has adblocking. even to track a shipment. They even stopped putting the tracking number in the shipment email so i cant go directly to usps. Im sick of being railroaded into giving up my privacy.
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Time to stop shopping on Etsy.
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Yeah it just sucks because i use it to support small business :/
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It's overrun with drop shippers anyway...
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I have an very long blacklist of companies for this reason.
The problem with standing up for your privacy is that it massively diminishes the resources available to you. I'm down to shopping at Costco as a single adult, because I had to say fuck you to Target recently, and my local grocery store was busy doing anti-union bullshit at the same time. So I'm driving further and probably paying more in the long run.
But they aren't principles if you don't have to give something up to stick by them.
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SO many corporate/govt websites do this. My health insurance and credit card company do it. It's mind boggling. I always keep some variation of Chromium installed to deal with it and then go back to LibreWolf.
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I've not used LibreWolf, but assuming that Firefox addons are generally compatible, it might be worth trying Chrome Mask. It's made by a Mozilla employee.
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I will give this a shot!
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Doesn't Firefox automatically spoof your browser when it has been reported to work better?
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Give them a one star and let them know why
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That reminds me of PayPal. I can't use my hardware sevurity key to log in on mobile... Unless I enable desktop mode in firefox. Then it works
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Chrome is the new Internet explorer. (Literally I guess)
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Because they get more data from it.
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Have you tried changing the user agent ? You need an extension for that
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This is a native Android app from Canon (not a webpage) requiring to open Chrome instead of my default Firefox app.
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Oof.
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Apps are rarely native these days. Everything is a fucking webview.
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Does it communicate via usb with the camera? If so it is probably because it uses webusb which is not implemented in Firefox https://caniuse.com/?search=webusb
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I understand, but if the application opens the browser you have to make it believe that it is opening Chrome
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Because 💲
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Typically they have a dependency on something only one browser can do, and rather than using a polyfill or a better browser, force their bad technical decisions onto the user.
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To be fair some things can't be polyfilled, like the WebUSB API, as someone mentioned in the comments. But lots of the sites could fix their code so it works on Firefox, yeah.
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Revolut business is the same. Somehow you must have chrome on mobile if you want to send a bank transfer from desktop. (It opens a qr code that when scanned, only works with Google Chrome and not any other chromium browser)
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Ecobee also requires chrome, but had a work around. Not sure if it'll work here, but ecobee said to hit the 3 dot menu and choose open in app after the login failed and that logged you in.
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Maybe it'll accept brave browser? Not that I'd use that browser as my daily...
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