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Comment by jedberg | Hacker News Reader

It would be great for consumers. Google would be forced to make their products work just as well with other browsers as it does with their own.

I only use Chrome to interact with Google properties. I'd love to use Firefox for everything.

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I see a lot of people saying Google services don't work well on other browsers. Can someone give an example? I've been using Firefox desktop and mobile for a year and haven't had any issues with Google stuff. At least YouTube, drive, docs, sheets, etc. seem to work just fine

I have random loading issues when I try to play something on the YouTube shorts page. The audio would play but not the video. Refreshing the page sometimes fixed this

In google docs if you highlight some text and right click there are options for copy and paste. If you click them in chrome it works fine, if you click them in Firefox it says:

"These actions are unavailable using the Edit menus, but you can still use: Ctrl+C - for copy, Ctrl+X - for cut, Ctrl+V - for paste"

So for some reason some functions are just not present in other browsers. I can guarantee they could implement these functions if they wanted to.

Oh I didn't even clock that that was a Firefox thing.

Could it be due to Firefox not supporting the clipboard APIs until quite recently?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Clipboard_A...

Have you tried using Google Meet on Safari? You can’t use filters, blur the background, and basically all other features besides basic video and audio.

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