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What about Google insisting you sign in on their own browser with 80%+ market share?

How does it insist? Chrome works without signing in just fine. You'll lose Google synchronization obviously, but that's about it.

I just see excuses to Google's dominance in the web browser space in all the responses. There are many threads on HN that discusses this in greater detail: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=chrome

I can still use Firefox to sign in to my Google account.

Google has never, ever, required that I use Chrome to access any of their sites and services.

Google Earth Studio is Chrome only

I can't use Google meet with Firefox.

I can

Google meet works with Firefox, but the filters like blur background, etc don't.

For google services I use ungoogled Chromium.

uhm, many of their services work poorly or not at all with Firefox; how is that not "requiring chrome?"

I've happily used Firefox on Windows and Linux to access all of my Google services, without issue, for years.

Can you expand on which services don't work with ff?

At Google there is a requirement to use Chrome - due to certain browser extensions - but that doesn't impact any of the services they provide.

There isn't a requirement to use Chrome at Google

Source: work at Google and used Firefox until the latest UI refresh

There was when I was there. How does BeyondCorp work with ff?

You can manually configure the browser to point it at the BeyondCorp proxy

Sheets and gmail were painful for me with FF. Moved to Brave, sadly

I use Gmail and Sheets just fine with Firefox. I haven't had any issues with it outside of the slowness of the app that I already notice in Chrome

You could use two browsers as well.

This is lie tbh. Chrome was caught with using some shadow dom api in firefox to slow it down. And Google meet transmit more data in firefox than using chrome which means google has added something in chrome. Also google drive doesn't work properly in firefox like it can't download multiple file. But if i use chrome/brave it works properly.

And Gmail wont allow you to login from different browser in name of security reason. They do many thing to shift user from firefox to chrome/chromium browser for many reason.

Same. I use ungoogled chromium for google services.

I haven't been able to use Hangouts reliably in Firefox in ages. I guess maybe it's better now but I just open Chrome every time I get a Hangout link at this point so I have no idea...which is sort of the point, if it's broken for long enough it's effectively broken forever.

Ditto, been experiencing the same. Using ungoogled chromium for now.

Ever tried to use Gmail offline? I could go on.

You can at least uninstall that and use a different one.

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