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cmeacham98 · 2022-08-21 19:51:05

Why not? Firefox is freely available and works on (almost) every platform Chrome does.

twodayslate | karma 1870 | avg karma 4.34 · | 2011-09-13 19:11:22+00:00

Chrome only? Why not Firefox?

2Gkashmiri | karma 2691 | avg karma 1.01 · | 2023-06-15 04:59:31

i'm pretty sure google will not allow this on chrome web store, all the more reasons to try to push for firefox

philjackson | karma 2322 | avg karma 4.79 · | 2019-11-20 07:59:35

Chrome isn't open source, so not much chance of that happening.

jackowayed | karma 6154 | avg karma 4.57 · | 2011-03-15 20:34:52+00:00

Why can't you support chrome?

tinus_hn | karma 7585 | avg karma 1.16 · | 2020-01-22 18:07:48

I strongly doubt Chrome is going to support this and Firefox seems even less likely.

nodata | karma 6208 | avg karma 2.31 · | 2015-01-22 09:00:46+00:00

Available for Chrome. Nothing else.

l1n | karma 1743 | avg karma 9.58 · | 2015-06-15 19:57:35+00:00

What features of Chrome are you utilizing that prevent you from supporting Firefox? I'm curious, as when I clicked through I got some kind of manifesto about Chrome being the future, and seeing as your code isn't open source I've no recourse but to ask you about your project.

CodingGuy | karma 85 | avg karma 2.3 · | 2016-01-31 10:28:32

Only Chrome? Firefox please!

deviate_X | karma 47 | avg karma 1.34 · | 2012-04-13 06:53:09

Why is it restricted to Chrome?

nl | karma 29762 | avg karma 2.49 · | 2011-10-05 22:08:18+00:00

I don't see why not. Firefox runs ok at the moment (with no optimization) and there is at least one Googler working on getting Chrome working.

saagarjha | karma 56017 | avg karma 2.29 · | 2020-01-08 07:02:08+00:00

Chrome isn't the default on a lot of platforms.

geocar | karma 5761 | avg karma 2.88 · | 2017-08-24 11:39:19

There exists a free browser that can be built from the Google Chrome source repository, but "Chrome" isn't it.

Mozilla has similarly and previously made their branding intentions clear.

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kelvin0 | karma 1896 | avg karma 1.63 · | 2017-09-28 19:26:16+00:00

"We test extensively on the latest versions of Chrome and Safari. For the best experience, we recommend Chrome."

Why no FF? What could possibly cause them not to support it? Any specialists out there?

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iopq | karma 3183 | avg karma 1.74 · | 2023-06-06 09:57:05

Yeah, since Chrome doesn't support it, why would anyone use it? It's a chicken and egg problem

jsheard | karma 16513 | avg karma 8.41 · | 2024-02-21 18:42:10

Three of those browsers are just Chromium reskins, how are they supporting Chrome but not them?

nextlevelwizard | karma 1688 | avg karma 1.47 · | 2022-02-12 13:17:53

I just don't support Chrome.

mcintyre1994 | karma 5178 | avg karma 1.92 · | 2018-02-04 07:37:39

I doubt it. They're built on Electron, they get Chrome support free and probably just don't want to spend any resources on making it work in other browsers because most of their users use the native apps.

moffkalast | karma 7759 | avg karma 1.88 · | 2021-12-01 08:46:26

Yeah well I don't see Firefox supporting it either, with their usual practice of not even supporting what Chrome bothers to do.

IloveHN84 | karma 454 | avg karma 1.06 · | 2018-11-15 11:55:34+00:00

Too bad someone has to use only Chrome for U2F access. I wish Firefox was able to handle it in the same.way of Chrome's way. Not even Chromium can work with it, at least not on Linux.