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        4 months ago

        Discord, slack, bitwarden, steam, Microsoft teams, visual studio code, balena etcher . Anyone else know of any electron apps or heavily modified version of chrome?😄

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          Teams has switched to Microsoft’s own edition of the same concept, “Edge WebView2”. Now that Edge is just being Chrome wearing a rubber Scooby Doo mask, I don’t expect the differences are vast.

          Another fun iteration is Plex’s desktop client, which uses QtWebEngine… however surprise! still the Chromium engine underneath.

          Signal’s desktop app is plain old Electron though.

          Of the ones on your list, worth noting that Discord and Slack work fine with FirefoxPWA.

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              I use the shit out of Firefox PWA. I just wish Mozilla would get off their asses and make it work out of the box vs having to install a third party app.

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            I do wish there were more native apps but alternatives to electron is always a good thing in my book.

            Except for Microsoft, Microsoft can stop pretending their solution is demonstrably different from electron and chromium.

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      Unfortunately for work I may have no choice:-(. Several of our daily work products I’ve tried on Firefox without success. Those also don’t have ads.

      I wish there were better alternatives. I may try out LibreWolf but I could not imagine it somehow being easier, though with enough effort put in the end result may be all that matters. Until the first update (possibly forced on the server end even if I don’t on mine) that breaks everything and I cannot do my work for the day, in which case I will absolutely go crawling back to Chrome, bc they have us by the short hairs there.:-(

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        4 months ago

        My company just plain old won’t install Firefox without a good reason.

        I’m stuck using chrome or edge. Once the ad block stops working on chrome, I move over.

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          I really hate the corporate IT.

          I was at a job that was slowly transitioning from a medium sized company to a larger one, initially we were allowed just install and use whatever on our machines, but gradually IT started implementing policies where if we wanted to add something it had to go through a request system and usually it would be denied.

          As a software developer this was just infuriating, it would hold up work, force us to use shitty software (like Chrome and Edge) and there would often be fuck ups where installing a new version of software would require removal of the old one and installation of a new one - which would trigger the approval process again.

          Like - I get it - some people can’t be trusted, but we were some of the key devs for the companies product, we know what we’re doing.

          I was rather happy to leave that part of the company behind when I left.

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          4 months ago

          On my work computer I don’t have admin rights but still I could install Firefox with no problems. It installed itself for local user only.

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          Yeesh… I would reconsider working there if possible, but being able to (checks notes) pay rent and afford food and medical care may just make up for it.:-| Hopefully you don’t need to surf the web much at work.