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"This visualization doesn't work right on Firefox+Linux, sorry! You could try Chrome/Chromium instead."

No Thanks.

The visualisation works fine in newest Firefox on Linux, though only in Chromium do I get the sound effects (like a high pitched fan noise)

Just so that it's clear to other people: The message is in the text of the page, but it does seem to work on a recent version of Firefox.

I'm on Firefox 68.0.1 on Arch and it's not working.

I'm also on 68.0.1 on Arch and it's working for me, so possibly a plugin is interfering.

Now working for me on Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0. Sats are spinning around a globe, but scanned area does not appear. Works fine on Edge but it's screen reader can't handle the companion article.

This is what it usually means when something is "Chrome-only" - developers like me usually try to stick to standards, but don't have the time or resources to do thorough testing of more than one browser. If it works on Firefox, that's gravy (and my current project does, from a cursory check), but I can't guarantee it in the same way that I can for Chrome.

i.e. this particular dev probably tried it on Firefox/Linux, or got bug reports, and just decided to put up a disclaimer.

> No Thanks.

Right you are.

Do note that it works fine on my Ubuntu 18.04 machine with Intel graphics on the motherboard, in Firefox 68.

Seems to work fine here (Firefox 68.0, Radeon R370, Fedora 5.2.7-100.fc29.x86_64, KDE/X-Window). That is, I can see the satellites and the rotating globe with strips of land gradually revealed.

I'm on Ubuntu, Firefox and it's working flawlessly

Works fine for me in Firefox 69 (beta)

Chromium doesn't have all that tracking stuff right. What's wrong with it?

Not true. Chromium talks a lot to Googles servers.

Additionally, "websites" that are made for chrome drive even more people into this monoculture which is bad for the web.

What does it send? Any proof of shady behavior?

Monoculture was bad when it was IE6, it's good when it's google. At least that's the SV Groupthink.

Did not know that.

When Microsoft took the Chromium browser as a base for the new Edge version, they replaced over 50 Google services.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/8/18300772/microsoft-google-...

And they replace them with their stuff? You imply foul play but there is nothing in the list.

I think the GP is pointing out that Chromium had G services, period.

So some amorphous and fuzzy evilness by association with zero proof.

It drives the people towards having one browser controlled by a mega corporation. We, at the very least, as developers need to support multiple browsers to prevent the monopolization that could one-day threaten the current style and freedom of the internet that we admire and like (generally).

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