The Question of the Day is a way to facilitate community discussion to help members ponder the unanswered questions of the world that are somehow relating to the hobby. Questionsj are many times open ended and up to interpretation. Feel free to post your thoughts in as much or as little detail as you’d like.
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As it feels like everyone and their grandma has their own browser these days could this qotd be a starting point of E4’s own browser to optimise the forum experience?
I don’t really have an opinion of ‘what’s the best browser for E4’ tbh. I’ve personally been using Google Chrome for years, on both my PC and Android mobile, but other browsers are likely fine as well.
I’ve thought about changing to Opera once or twice, which the coworker that sits next to me at the office uses, but apart from the extreme CPU usage sometimes, I’m honestly completely fine with Chrome.
Work-related, since I’m a software engineer working on a standalone application that’s runs in the browser, I barely deal with browser-related issues these days. In the past, work-arounds had to be made for Internet Explorer on an almost monthly basis, but since IE support has been dropped and it has been replaced with MS Edge, all the mainstream modern browsers (Chrome; FireFox; Edge; Opera; Safari; Brave; etc.) barely have any differences for their core functionalities. In the rare occasion we do still have a browser-related issue (on average maybe once or twice a year perhaps), these days it’s almost always FireFox that’s the odd one out.
Yes, but. I can really feel in Firefox when Google is rolling out another very specific feature/alteration to a web standard which works perfectly fine in Chromium but conflicts heavily when used in another browser. Also on any platform Google has created you can really feel that their stuff only wants to work on their stuff. YouTube and Firefox are not the best friends, especially not when running privacy focused extensions.
Google really has a very big influence on development of web standards, and with their market share they can do whatever, which feels like it is always more focused on keeping and growing their market share than actually optimising the web standard.
When doing a bit of CSS here and there I really get flash backs to IE5 era. Where it looks good on your version, but it looks like crap in any other version of IE and even worse in any other browser.
Tbf, the same applies to Chrome extensions. I’ve had to adjust some settings or update the version of my uBlock Origin extension more than once in the past year, because it didn’t block YouTube ads anymore after some recent updates Google rolled out. Luckily, the developers of that extension are usually pretty fast with a new work-around for Google’s fwckary..
But you’re indeed correct that Chromium has kinda become the standard in web developments lately, so I certainly hope FireFox and other non-Chromium browsers will remain relevant for a long time to counteract Google’s influence tbh.
And yeah, IE5 was a menace, haha. I’m glad those days are long gone tbh. We’ve dropped IE7 support 3-4 years ago. Our development team even went to dinner to celebrate it at the time.
Edge is objectively bad tho, since it was revealed recently that it stores your passwords on the system in clear text while running… ALL of them at once.
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I’ve had to adjust some settings or update the version of my uBlock Origin extension more than once in the past year, because it didn’t block YouTube ads anymore after some recent updates Google rolled out. Luckily, the developers of that extension are usually pretty fast with a new work-around for Google’s fwckary.. 
