SO many corporate/govt websites do this. My health insurance and credit card company do it. It’s mind boggling. I always keep some variation of Chromium installed to deal with it and then go back to LibreWolf.
I’ve not used LibreWolf, but assuming that Firefox addons are generally compatible, it might be worth trying Chrome Mask. It’s made by a Mozilla employee.
Doesn’t Firefox automatically spoof your browser when it has been reported to work better?
I will give this a shot!
Holy shit, Canon convinced you to install a mobile app? Who’s holding the gun to your head? We’ll dispatch authorities as soon as possible.
Chrome is the new Internet explorer. (Literally I guess)
Revolut business is the same. Somehow you must have chrome on mobile if you want to send a bank transfer from desktop. (It opens a qr code that when scanned, only works with Google Chrome and not any other chromium browser)
Give them a one star and let them know why
Because they get more data from it.
Welcome to the browser wars. This has been going on a long time now.
Typically they have a dependency on something only one browser can do, and rather than using a polyfill or a better browser, force their bad technical decisions onto the user.
To be fair some things can’t be polyfilled, like the WebUSB API, as someone mentioned in the comments. But lots of the sites could fix their code so it works on Firefox, yeah.
Because 💲
That reminds me of PayPal. I can’t use my hardware sevurity key to log in on mobile… Unless I enable desktop mode in firefox. Then it works
Ecobee also requires chrome, but had a work around. Not sure if it’ll work here, but ecobee said to hit the 3 dot menu and choose open in app after the login failed and that logged you in.
Wait, what exactly does Ecobee require chrome for? I was looking to replace my Nest thermostat with an Ecobee.
Logging in via the app. It launches the browser. If using Firefox you have to do the extra step I mentioned.
Here’s the screen.
Oh man, that’s bogus. That’s for sharing that.
It’s really not bad. Sign in, goes to a page that just says not found. 3 dot>open in app and you’re in.
If I can’t control something 100% local, I don’t buy it. If it requires an online account in any way, it’s trash.
I don’t recall if it was mandatory during setup or not. I can control it locally when the internet is down, at least from the wall, I don’t think the app would work. But again, I wanted the remote features so I didn’t even try to set it up without an account.
Home assistant may work as well, but I don’t use it.
I just downloaded firefox focus, and etsy wont let me log in with it because it has adblocking. even to track a shipment. They even stopped putting the tracking number in the shipment email so i cant go directly to usps. Im sick of being railroaded into giving up my privacy.
Time to stop shopping on Etsy.
Yeah it just sucks because i use it to support small business :/
It’s overrun with drop shippers anyway…
I have an very long blacklist of companies for this reason.
The problem with standing up for your privacy is that it massively diminishes the resources available to you. I’m down to shopping at Costco as a single adult, because I had to say fuck you to Target recently, and my local grocery store was busy doing anti-union bullshit at the same time. So I’m driving further and probably paying more in the long run.
But they aren’t principles if you don’t have to give something up to stick by them.
They aren’t worried about adblocking, but the cookie/tracker blockers that come with adblockers. They gotta know everything about you ya know
Have you tried changing the user agent ? You need an extension for that
This is a native Android app from Canon (not a webpage) requiring to open Chrome instead of my default Firefox app.
Apps are rarely native these days. Everything is a fucking webview.
If this was a web view they wouldn’t even need this screen since it could just done in the “app” itself instead of needing to open an external browser.
If this was a web view they wouldn’t even need this screen since it could just done in the “app” itself instead of needing to open an external browser.
I understand, but if the application opens the browser you have to make it believe that it is opening Chrome
But you can’t make a native app think it is opening Chrome when it’s opening Firefox with just an extension. The extension only changes things inside the browser, but the Canon app probably checks the app ID of the browser it’s opening, which is done at the level of the Android system, and which is not affected by the extension.
… which can only be fixed after rooting the phone.
@[email protected] try making a dummy app with com.google.chrome(not sure) as package name and login again. Maybe the browser check get bypassed and it opens in the default browser.
For that you need a ROM that supports signature spoofing, but it should be possible, just not for the common user, sadly
I don’t think that app check signature or so. Its probably checking if app exist or not. Except if the app launches chrome by its indent action instead of normal link opening method
Oof.
Does it communicate via usb with the camera? If so it is probably because it uses webusb which is not implemented in Firefox https://caniuse.com/?search=webusb
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Maybe it’ll accept brave browser? Not that I’d use that browser as my daily…
always give a bad rating and if possible create a support request. let them know.
