Most Google apps only just about "work" on Firefox. They're clearly optimised for Chromium and it shows.
I use Firefox for all my browsing needs except for Google apps, for which I keep an install of Vivaldi around. I only really fire up Chrome if some stupid internal workplace app refuses to work on anything else. It truly is the new IE.
What problems do you have? I use Firefox exclusively and I'm a heavy Google app user too (laziness...), but I can't remember ever having a significant issue
Google fucks up Firefox experience so often. For a company that large, both intentionally doing it and ignorance (eg. not testing on Firefox) is actually malice. Pretty much only company that has this problem.
Go check out GCP web UI on Firefox and tell me it's not intentional.
This is a systematic issue with many of Google's services. They have the money and manpower to test their interface on Firefox. We're talking about a modern, generally standard-compliant browser here, not IE6. Getting those websites to perform decently on Firefox shouldn't be a problem for Google.
I can believe that they don't purposefully break Firefox for the sake of it, but it's clear that they make no effort to make their websites compatible and they don't appear to consider these issues like bugs. If it works on Chrome then it's good enough. I suspect that internally compatibility issues with Firefox are not even considered bugs at all, it's just the way it is and it's up to Mozilla to fix their browsers to be compatible with Chromium (I have no insider knowledge, but it's the way it feels from the outside).
I use Firefox across Windows, Mac, OpenBSD, and Ubuntu. I've not seen any specific issues with Google sites at all. I only really use Docs, Maps, and Youtube with any regularity but I've not really seen any of these issues.
This is such an annoying approach for Google to force people to using Chrome... I get that they're not testing stuff on Firefox, so much is obvious. But there are so many times things don't work properly in Firefox (YouTube loading slower, lag in Gmail, Drive having weird UI<>backend synchronization bugs) at a first glance, but as soon as you set the user-agent to Chrome, things just magically work perfectly fine, and all issues disappear.
Someone should really be doing a deep dive into this issue, because it's been going on for a long time, and is clearly anti-competitive. My guess is that they're really good at hiding this/making it look accidental rather than on purpose.
I've almost exclusively been using Linux on Firefox as my main browser for the last 5 years. I also use pretty much every Google service under the sun, and I've never seen any of these problems.
Google’s web products have always worked with Firefox to my knowledge. Maybe they run a bit faster on Chrome but I don’t recall them ever being broken on Firefox. Perhaps I’m wrong. Can you cite incidents of Google’s stuff not working right on Firefox (or Safari even). Also which features enable developers to create sites that don’t work in Firefox and Safari? (I really don’t know. I’m not a web developer.)
Google websites work better on chrome. Not sure if it’s because google is doing something nefarious or if Firefox is just not keeping up with google website technologies.
So, I’ve trained my brain to use chrome as an app only for google websites. When I need to check gmail or YouTube or google calendar, I use chrome. Otherwise I’m on Firefox or safari.
It’s worked pretty well. I found I was only really unhappy with Firefox when using google websites. No longer a problem.
What Google app features are not available in Firefox? I use Firefox and my work uses Google's products and I never run into any issues with gmail, calendar, docs...
Some Google services I regularly depend on (like YouTube and Google Meet) don't work as well on Firefox as they do on Chrome, in ways that actually matter. Besides that I think most websites work fine.
Google has a track record of serving different experiences to Firefox users, and it has nothing to do with compatibility, changing your user agent so you appear as Chrome shows pages that work just fine.
You and me both. Have you noticed that "some" apps google has developed run like garbage when using firefox? Also, have you switched search engines as well?
At this point I keep a chromium based browser around as my google apps portal, and nothing else.
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