I only knew about this via that website which got the news from twitter. I hope this gains huge enough traction for Ubisoft to change the policy from the backlash.
Although tbh, I am not expecting much, considering Ubisoft is trying to be the next EA these days.
The only thing I find Firefox inferior over Chrome is Webgl support. Specifically browser-based games.
Although they are playable on Firefox, they play much more smoother on Webkit and it's sister, Chromium.
Like let us say you get 90fps on Webkit or Chromium, in Firefox you get around 50-60fps. That kind of difference which to gamers, may find off putting.
Well what do you expect when all of a sudden they started making their own browser over contributing to Firefox.
The entire reason why Chrome was created was for Google to push the web forward at their own pace. Away from the previous iteration that heavily relied on browser helper objects (plugins).
Here we are though, Google having a huge influence over the spec. Mainly because the competition weeded out to only Firefox remaining.
Sure, Edge might be considered competition for Google, but at the end of the day, Edge, Opera (unfortunately), Vivaldi, Brave, and similar browsers are essentially Chrome reskins.
PS: I am considering Edge as a competition for Google as Microsoft is well known for being EEE (Extend, embrace, extinguish). But more importantly, they have the man power to maintain their own fork if things do get out of hand.
Just this week or was it last week, I made a comment on some post that putting privacy aside, we should still be encouraging people to use Firefox instead of any chromium browsers to break control. It is good to see that right now I am just given a very good example why Chromium being a monopoly allows Google to control the spec (even if other companies are on board)
I was originally an Opera user (back when it was using Presto) back in the day, but I switched to Firefox during the last moments of the Presto engine. When Presto died, I worried a bit about the state of other browser engines, but I didn't worry about it too much because I never thought Microsoft would use Chromium with their Edge browser. Yet, here we are.
Putting privacy concerns aside, we should encourage the use of Firefox because it helps promote browser engine diversity. The more diverse browser engines we have, the better it is for us, especially when it comes to innovation. I mean, it may be a bit different than the era of Internet Explorer, but since Google is leading the Chromium project, who knows what could happen.
They might remove a particular feature that was once very useful for whatever reason, and we could end up just accepting it because we can't do anything about it.
If you are using Firefox, there is an addon that allows you to install websites as apps with isolated settings, cache, cookies and everything with the default Firefox profile (So even if you decide to clear browsing history, your apps will not get affected)
I can relate! Apart from the pic above, I also have the Pro wired (my go-to controller for playing games on Steam), Ultimate (my choice for Xbox gaming), Pro 2 (wireless, perfect for my Surface/tablet), and their arcade stick.
What amazes me even more is that they offer firmware updates, which is pretty rare in the controllers category. Haha, I guess I sound like a true 8bitdo fanboy now, lmao!
That's sweet. Aside from the turbo and clear buttons, that one seems to be closer to the original Famicom more than what I have (which have diagonal layout for the buttons)
There is a possibility!