When going to use Adobe express on Firefox it comes up with the following message, saying that this browser doesn’t play well with others and that I should use Safari, Google Chrome, or Microsoft Edge instead.
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Sounds like it’s Adobe that doesn’t play well with others.
Yeah, Adobe sucks.
I’d assume Adobe was a bad actor sooner than Mozilla. Adobe is a big-time fan of DRM and dark patterns.
“Firefox gives the user too much control, so we decided to introduce incompatibility and then blame it on Firefox. Since we’re a huge software company, we could easily fix this… but we won’t. That’s okay, though, because we wrote a cute error message. Enjoy!”
So tired of all the asshat sites that only test in Chrome and call it a day. Did none of them live through the IE-only era of the web??
Thanks Firefox. Adobe is literally a malware. Check with the sysadmin community
Pretty much this TBH. Like, complaining that Adobe doesn’t want to support Firefox is like complaining because your Norton Antivirus doesn’t like your VPN. It’s kinda to be expected.
Combining that with all the anti-Microsoft talk in the thread just makes it funnier to me, as a combination Linux and Windows user who uses almost an entire program suite of free or cheap alternatives to the big names (Krita/Blender/etc. instead of Adobe, Firefox, LibreOffice, etc.)
Am I the weirdo?
In that you aren’t simply pirating the stuff because Adobe’s cracked to hell and back? Makes you an outlier I’d bet, but it’s not weird.
Pirating the stuff wouldn’t counter a lot of my ethical reasons for not using Adobe (and would arguably undermine them too.)
I don’t like the idea of a single-sourced software solution becoming the basis for entire creative and professional industries. Hardware either, for that matter, but that’s a different issue.
So I don’t use Adobe. I avoid using MS Office.
Probably a silly hill to die on if it comes down to it, but I turned down a 1700 dollar free Macbook on principle.
And because I know it will come up:
No, I don’t like relying on Windows for things either, hence as much of my suite of software being cross-platform as possible.
I’m willing to go Windows more than Apple simply because, while Windows has a bit of a stranglehold, it’s one of apathy rather than malice (like I feel much of Apple’s exclusivity and control is.) Windows’ hold on gaming and productivity markets is dying as Linux gains a stronger foothold, as it should.
Report to webcompat, and try using a user agent switcher like this one to fool the site into thinking you’re using chrome and see how it works
It is pretty much impossible to completely spoof a gecko engine for something else.
The vast majority of sites just check the user agent string, so this is not really an issue.
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It’s one of their open tabs, actually.
What happens when the maintainer decides they don’t care?
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That’s not quite accurate. If the site is popular enough Mozilla may ship a webcompat intervention in Firefox.
I’m skeptical if it really doesn’t. Maybe it works if you switch the browser’s user agent, maybe.
Switched my browse agent like and it seemed to work fine. Adobe just sucks.
Is that even legal?
Edit: to clarify, is it even legal for a company to block access to a website based on the browser the user chooses, even if there are no apparent technical reasons.
As someone that is the manager of a web app for a FANG company, it’s not easy to support everything. Right now we don’t support Firefox because the APIs we use (and don’t own) don’t support it. To enable support is then dependent on those other companies/teams to add support which can sometimes be years to develop. Chrome is easier to support because it’s based on Safari and so many other browsers use it as well.
How is Chrome based on Safari?
Google used Apples WebKit and is still closely aligned to it.
Edit: So while technically Chrome is not a fork of Safari, they used enough of Apples tech that personally I don’t think it can be considered a uniquely independent product.
