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    Yeah, Firefox works fine for me, problem is a good number of websites on the modern web just actually do not work correctly on Firefox because theyre designed by lazy morons.

    Sometimes this can be fixed by just spoofing it and presenting as chrome, other times not.

    In Opera’s defense, I have considered installing it for its game recommendation thingy alone and not actually using it as a browser, simply because modern online game stores basically recommend either massively marketed stuff or seemingly completely random 5 dollar trash, or stupid meme game that is extremely popular right now that is basically also trash and is forgotten about when Twitch moves on to the next thing.

    In the past I remember Opera’s game thingy actually being decent. Any current users that can attest to this?

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        It depends on what websites you frequent. The vast majority work fine (though they are still heavily optimized for Chrome and not much else), but there are some exceptions like publishers of educational material or other websites with overzealous ideas of web based DRM. I’ve seen some banners that straight up tell you “You need to upgrade to a proper browser” and then link to the Chrome installer…

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          Yeah, its not that the entire website won’t work, it’ll be some vital part of it.

          Various Federal and State and Local government websites will have a captcha that just doesn’t load, or have a search map or filter system that bugs out and doesn’t work.

          Happens with a good number of slapdash apartment websites too, and some smaller businesses.

          Theres a few things I have to regularly use that just do not actually work on Firefox so I have to keep Chrome around… =(

          Again though, sometimes you can get them to work by just using a browser spoofing addon to tell the website that you are actually Chrome. Which is insane because… basically that means theyre just intentionally making Firefox not work even though it does.

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        Only crappy websites cause problems, and unless it’s something you really need, why bother?