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"Warning: You are using an outdated browser, which adversely affects your file transfer performance. Please upgrade to Google Chrome."

is this a joke? I'm on FF19

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If you been using both browsers for a while, you could (at least IMHO) feel the increasing slowness of FF comparing to Chrome, at lest within last 2 years.

Further, the site looks very much polished in Chrome and its hard to find anything to blame for. If they did benchmark testing and realized Chrome works the best for decryption/encrypting/etc, I don't blame them for giving up on other browsers.

> If you been using both browsers for a while, you could (at least IMHO) feel the increasing slowness of FF comparing to Chrome, at lest within last 2 years.

Chrome starts a lot slower for me. It seems to really hit the disk a lot more than Firefox.

Mega uses features from a draft W3C spec called "file-system-api": http://www.w3.org/TR/file-system-api/

Chrome supports this, Firefox does not. See my comments in the Mozilla bugzilla bug about this:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=704128#c22

Here's what they have to say regarding browsers: https://mega.co.nz/#blog_1

Basically, only Chrome seems to be supported because it is "the most advanced browser currently in existence"

[built for IE6]

Really? I'm on FF3 and I didn't get a notice, which was quite surprising.

File upload didn't work though....

wow, that's even weirder.

btw thanks for the downvote, whoever that was.

Resist complaining about being downmodded. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.