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Websites I use regularly for banking don't work outside of chrome. I've done the pure firefox forray recently but after 6 months it gets tiresome to have 2 browsers and 3 weeks ago Ive admitted defeat for the second time and went full chrome. Who am I lying to -- market cornered, ggwp. It's like trying to eat food without paying a cent to cargill.

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Treat it as isolating banking from the rest of your browsing, there are enough CVEs coming out for Chromium in spite of (or maybe because of) Google pouring billions into it.

This is what I do. Chromium for Facebook, banking, and Google (photos and map). Firefox for everything else. It's a very tiny inconvenience to switch between browsers for these tasks.

Really? I've been FF only for years and everything works reliably, including banking sites (Australia & New Zealand).

E.g. the Qantas business rewards website was broken in Firefox, along with Qantas hotels

> Websites I use regularly for banking don't work outside of chrome.

What countries banks?

I am in New Zealand and have not had that problem in years.

15 years ago I had to edit my user agent string to look like IE (IIRC) for the University of Otago's website (PricewaterhouseCoopers getting lots of money for doing a really bad job)

Makes me wonder have you tried that trick? Less tiresome than switching browsers....

Why not switch banks or move to a credit union?

This is not a reasonable suggestion.

Why not? Credit unions are great.

Really? Which ones are broken? Every banking website I use works in Firefox.

I can’t imagine voluntarily using a browser without working ad blocking.

ABNAMRO in nl, for starters. Their transaction form breaks somewhere halfway if you are not using Chrome. I've found a workaround (the transaction gets archived, so you just click on the list of transactions once more and then you can continue). It's annoying though and they do not respond to reports of it breaking. They also change the site more and more to work better on chrome so now you can no longer cut-and-paste a number of transactions in Firefox (handy during tax season) but you have to download a badly formatted CSV with way too much information in it, strip that and then you may be able to import it.

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