Google Chrome ships a default, hidden extension that allows code on *.google.com access to private APIs, including your current CPU usage

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there's a portion of the internet that just doesn't work in Firefox because the company pays only $2 million a year for developers and they can't do it

I mean web developers not the Firefox developers stop down voting me

I use Firefox and Linux and I don't drive a car how about that

please give me $40

As part of our company's security policy, our IT admin disallows firefox to be installed in dev machine.

our engineers cannot test their work in firefox.

LOL

That's wack.

I think our company does something similar (Chrome by default, need to ask IT for anything else), but our department just said, "we need Macs to do our work, you have no power here..." I hate macOS, but I hate stupid IT policies more.

This nonsense is part of why I prefer to work for smaller companies.

Whenever I face an issue in our company portal and I ask the IT team, their response is "Can you please try on Google Chrome?"

🀦🏽🀦🏽

there's no quality control with a test suite of browsers and versions running in virtual machines?

Due to security policy, we cannot run vm. Oh, btw, we do android development too. I guess they didn't know android studio runs a vm. So that is ok

I've yet to find more than a handful of pages that have had issues, and most were fairly poorly coded to begin with

I found one the other day but I don't even recall what it was. I almost never have any problems.