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Adobe Express doesn't work in Firefox (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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When going to use Adobe express on Firefox it comes up with the following message, saying that this browser doesn't play well with others and that I should use Safari, Google Chrome, or Microsoft Edge instead.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Windows is such a shitty platform, with each update they force you to use their browser it's insane, the ammount of popups and shit they push onto you it's just crazy. If you browse in windows they sometimes give you web results that you can only see inside of Bing where you get 10 popups to get Edge, now they are introducing some AI Copilot assistant built in into windows that also forces you to use Bing and install Edge in every step you take.

If you want to use Firefox I highly recommend using Linux since Windows is spying to you anway so it's not even worth bothering with not using Edge on there.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I have no idea what Windows does since I use Linux exclusively at home and macOS exclusively at work, but this sounds... unlikely.

Could you clarify a few things?

browse inside windows

Do you mean using the system search thing that's usually used for launching programs? Or so you mean something built in to apps? Or Cortana search assistant (or whatever they call it now)?

Bing

Can you change the default search engine? I use Firefox w/ DuckDuckGo, and I've never used any kind of OS search (I disable it when possible).

Firefox... highly recommend using Linux

Does Windows reach inside Firefox somehow?

And yeah, I get that Microsoft is spying on its users, that's a given, but I don't see how that translates to switching OSes just to use a browser. There are plenty of other reasons to use Firefox aside from some privacy protections (and Firefox really isn't all that private by default, it just blocks some cookies), such as:

extensions - there are a ton that just work better on Firefox, especially ad blockers
resource usage - I use a ton of tabs, and that just doesn't work well on Chrome
container tabs - maybe Chrome has something similar, but it works pretty well in Firefox
Firefox sync - I use Firefox for Android (mostly for the ad blocker), and Firefox sync is really nice
rendering engine diversity - right now it's basically just Chromium-based browsers (Edge, Brave, Chrome, etc), Firefox, and Safari; if you care about web standards and aren't on macOS, Firefox is pretty much your best bet (I guess Linux has some options, but they're pretty light on features imo)

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

What. I'm no Windows fanboy but this is FUD.