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Comment by Larrikin | Hacker News Reader

Which specific websites?

I hit a few in the past. But, I'm failing to find any of them at the moment... Maybe I should give Firefox mobile another try.

It could be that my baseline was the Chrome rendering, so any discrepancy was classified as "it's broken".

Adblock on a mobile browser is a gamechanger. I wouldn't go back even if a quarter of sites were broken on FF mobile (and they aren't, I've been using it for 2 full years desktop and mobile, and only found a single compatibility issue - a restaurant's take-out ordering page)

Honestly, in this day and age, any discrepancy from Chromium/WebKit is probably broken. But if we're talking about a few pixels' difference here and there, plenty of sites are more broken than that on every browser.

I have encountered a couple of (financial, natch) sites that insist on a Chromium-based browser in order to do vital operations like download statements. Switching browsers for those few exceptions is annoying, but not a deal-breaker (for me).

Have you tried a user-agent switcher? I think you can even set them up to always have a specific agent depending on the domain. Chances are, they don’t need chromium, they are just written by (even more than you’d think) incompetent people.

Found one! Google.com ... Try googling "vti stock" (or any similar rich ui query) on chrome mobile and Firefox mobile.

Works for me. What do you see different?

Chrome gives me the graph, and rich stock data. Firefox gives a minimum amount of data (vanilla install, no addons). See:

- https://ibb.co/gJQhTbK

- https://ibb.co/bJZ7JVR

I get the same behavior for the people queries like "Barack Obama". (Android 14, Pixel 4a)

Because Google intentionally breaks it on non Chrome browsers so that you get a worse experience.

Install the Google Search Fixer from the Firefox add on store and it looks exactly the same.

I see the graph exactly like that in Firefox on Android.

edit: turns out I have the search fixer add-on that is mentioned in a sibling comment installed.

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