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> At this point, is there still any good reasons to use Chrome?

I use Firefox for everything... except work.

At work we have Google Suite, Google Meet, etm and these do not work as well, as consistently, or with the same features in Firefox.

A specific example, if you have a 1080p webcam you can use this in Firefox and https://webcamtests.com/ will reveal that I have a 1920x1080 FHD webcam @ 50fps ... all good, but Google Meet will only allow 1080p webcams in Chrome.

That's a rich feature example, but even things like Docs behaves subtly differently and a little more rich and fluidly in Chrome.

What this means is that I segment my life by browser, Firefox is my personal life, and I treat Chrome as my work sandbox.




Just use the slightly lower resolution.

Btw, in 2020 Google was caught red handed shipping broken code to firefox to make it look like broken/slow. Everytime that happens, just open support tickets with your IT dept. That is the only wining move. Otherwise you are just a fool being pushed around :(


I've come to see this as a feature, not an issue (I accept this as my "punishment" for refusing to install Zoom's app, and instead use it through my browser). Frankly I don't care all that much about what people see on the other side of my webcam. They're universally crap quality anyway. If I really needed decent camera quality for a video call, I'd use my phone, and a dedicated video conferencing app.

(Sure, if you've specifically bought an external webcam so you can have high-quality video chats, that's another story. But I don't think all that many people do that.)

Outside of the webcam issue, I've never had any problems using any of the GSuite webapss with Firefox.


We use Google Suite too, and I have no problems with 100% Firefox usage there too. I can't say anything about things like the resolution of your webcam, but I don't know, it all just works here.




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