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Apple Maps launches on the web to challenge Google Maps (techcrunch.com)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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https://beta.maps.apple.com/

It doesn’t seem to support Firefox, or not yet at least.
Maps on the web is compatible with these web browsers

On your Mac or iPad

  • Safari
  • Edge
  • Chrome

On your Windows PC

  • Edge
  • Chrome
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[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Not available on Firefox. Nope!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I tried, User agent switcher works miracles. Just sayin'

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That awkward moment when it doesn’t support iPhone Safari…

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Kinda makes sense. Why support safari on iOS when it’s already installed (by default)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Many people have had easy success with Firefox by spoofing a “Chrome on Windows” user agent; you can use an extension like this one to do so.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Seems easier to just not use Apple Maps tbh

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

true. Also: not commenting is easier than commenting

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago

Ironic

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago (1 children)
  • go to about:config
  • type general.useragent.override
  • if the key doesn't exist yet, select the String option and click + button
  • enter the useragent, eg. Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/127.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 for Chrome/Windows
[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Don't do this. It will override the user agent for every site you visit which will cause a lot of problems, like failing most captchas and breaking a lot of websites.

You should use an extension (like this one) to change UA on a per site basis instead.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Or do the sane thing: close tab on any site that refuses to support Fx

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

How timely of them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

My browser isn’t supported (DDG). But I’m on an iPhone, and every browser is required to use WebKit—so every browser is literally safari. Lame.

Edit: oh, maybe it’s no phones.