Friend gave me access to his Adobe account (I’m never giving Adobe money again), and it looks like they don’t even support Firefox. That means I’m not using even the one remaining browser-based Adobe service that’s left.
It’s because they’re using a chrome only API to interact with USB devices. This used to be a dedicated piece of software. I guess they don’t even want to provide an electron app.
Is this an app for recording and editing podcasts? Why do they need usb access for that? On its website it doesn’t says anything about usb.
Microphones, webcams, capture cards, etc
those do not require access to the underlying devices to get tho
What do they need that for? Every bowser has a file picker/dragndop.
I see it as them interacting directly with microphones, webcams, and other peripherals.
Every browser manages that too, though.
It is really frustrating that Firefox doesn’t support webusb. However, it looks like they are implementing it. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebUSB_API
Edit: they’re probably not. See the replies.
Honestly, I kinda hate the idea of a browser being able to access hardware devices.
That’s why no one outside Google wants it. Apple said no. Firefox said no. There’s a reason. WebRTC is shit. It leaks too much just for a small convenience.
And yeah, browsers don’t need my USB ports thanks.
This move was what hurt VIA as they moved to the API exclusively. So the only native apps are just electron wrappers 🤷♂️
At the end we have Flash + ActiveX alltogether again.
That’s their web dev documentation. The
is no.
There’s hope. They do say while in beta. Maybe they’re working out issues on one before adapting to the other.
Have you tried spoofing your User Agent string?
Can you do a screen recording of the process of what it looks like to spoof a user agent string?
You can use an extension or add an override in Firefox’s about:config screen.
I mean it’s pretty straightforward but here you go
That really shouldn’t be a shock
Mildly infuriating = I have been parroting Firefox evangelism mindlessly.
This sub was complete shit on reddit too, why did I think it’ll be any better here?
Definitely this. I am kind of tired of people. Mindlessly worshiping Firefox as if Mozilla doesn’t have a bad financial track on It’s CEOs giving themselves raises and also being relatively heavily funded by Google
I want to enjoy Firefox and use it as my main browser, but it just simply isn’t as polished as some of the chromium browsers out there. Which is saying a lot because Firefox used to be the number one browser 20 years ago.
They have absolutely no audience in mind when developing Firefox aside from “everyone”, and his other browsers continue implementing of a variety of different functions out of the box, Mozilla either:
A. Implemented as a browser extension that gets abandoned (split screen tabs) B. Never gets implemented at all. So a third party steps in and makes an inferior version (tab groups)
And then in some cases, removing functionality from the browser under some lame excuse like “nobody was using this”, when in fact, someone was using that feature.
All of that coupled with a lack of any transparency from the development team with something like a fleshed out road map or anything like that. Instead just a string of promises. Which would be fine and expected out of an open source project, if Mozilla wasn’t a multi-million dollar corporation.
Of course, on Lemmy, the open source federated network, everyone here will glorify and put Mozilla on a pedestal as The Lord and Savior of FOSS and the internet as a whole. When there is absolutely nothing that makes them special
Honestly, as a Firefox user, I agree. The Firefox evangelism gets too much for me that I’m genuinely concerned it’s going cult-like. There’s over-enthusiasm (in which I’ve fell victim to) and then there’s hounding people for bothering to choose a Chromium-based browser.
I use Firefox because it works best for most of my web-browsing workflows, but it has its issues - split screen tabs is one, it helps with my workflow for submitting database entries to MusicBrainz or RateYourMusic. Vivaldi has it, Firefox doesn’t, so I’ll use Vivaldi when I need to, even if I think Firefox has a bit more polish than Vivaldi. That being said, Vivaldi is more willing to add features that power users coming from Firefox or old, Presto-era Opera want.
I do feel like the evangelism is actually toned down in the Firefox-specific Lemmy community, oddly enough (at least on lemmy.ml). In fact, the top post as of this comment is complaining about the privacy issues with Firefox’s upcoming Fakespot integration, and the comments are in agreement.
Mindlessly worshipping and understanding the advantage of a truly FOSS browser over one owned by the biggest data harvesting organization the world has ever seen are two pretty different things.
Honestly it feels to me like there are some people here paid to be trolls by Google, because their arguments are so incredibly lame that I can’t see any other reason they’d exist.
As if Mozilla isn’t paid millions by Google
It is, but it got to this because of people like some in this comment thread.
“Why have variety, why try anything different, competition? No idea what that is, I’ma just keep using my google chrome, to search things on my google search engine, that comes up with google youtube results, while serving me google ads and google trackers on my already google owned web browser. Oh, and at the end of the day, let me check my google gmail to see if I’ve missed anything from the day.”
It’s OK if you don’t wanna use firefox, but it needs to exist, not just symbolically and bullshit like this needs to be talked about more. People need to complain about it, instead of blaming mozilla for “not having feature parity” (which is complete bullshit).
Only somewhat related - I “joined” gnu/linux 10 days ago or so, actually moving my main pc to Ubuntu last week (PopOS). Anyway - being as green as I am, I did search for “beginner tips” or “things to do” when installing Ubuntu/Linux.
I was very surprised that publication websites listed “install Chrome”… and it pretty much made me ignore those guides. Linux forums, reddit, etc were fine and what I opted to follow.
