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Someone in Google really has jumped the shark at this point. How we (geeks) knashed our teeth in the 90's when sites were IE only - it's been over a decade since I've seen this - and now GOOGLE is pushing their browser to the exclusion of others. Seriously do I have to start playing with my browser string again!

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> it's been over a decade since I've seen this

Apple does this every year in order to stream WWDC. It’s the one time a year I open up safari :)

Edge can also understand the video format.

It is a different situation, because FF and Chrome would also able to show the stream if their developers used the macOS and Windows media APIs.

It's not checking your user agent - the banner is a warning, it's not blocking anything. And for good reason, WebComponents support is not stable in Firefox or Edge yet. The page won't work properly, but you can at least view it if you enable WebComponents support in about:config.

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