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minus-squaredata1701d (He/Him)linkfedilinkEnglish31•2 days agoThe no restart is kind of awesome. WebGPU progress is also great, even if not on Linux yet.
minus-square☂️-linkfedilink6•edit-22 days agowebgpu makes me apprehensive. more precise fingerprinting and worse exploits could potentially be a thing.
minus-squareChewylinkfedilink10•2 days agoThe problem is that if Firefox does not support features like WebGPU, people will switch to Chrome once they notice web sites don’t work correctly.
minus-squareSayCyberOnceMorelinkfedilinkEnglish1•16 hours agoOr, complain to the website not to use browser specific features (just like the old Internet Explorer days)
minus-square☂️-linkfedilink8•1 day agoyeah that’s part of the issue of letting google unilaterally control the most popular browser by far.
The no restart is kind of awesome. WebGPU progress is also great, even if not on Linux yet.
webgpu makes me apprehensive. more precise fingerprinting and worse exploits could potentially be a thing.
The problem is that if Firefox does not support features like WebGPU, people will switch to Chrome once they notice web sites don’t work correctly.
Or, complain to the website not to use browser specific features (just like the old Internet Explorer days)
yeah that’s part of the issue of letting google unilaterally control the most popular browser by far.