US cellular tells me I should switch to Chrome browser from safari

[fourthtunz]

I was trying to log into my US cellular account and could not so i logged into a chat
and the rep tells me I should switch to Chrome browser from safari.
I really like US cellular but their website has always been crap.
I told them that I would not be getting chrome.

 

[libertedepense]

It's true crappy websites are even crappier on browsers they don't support.

 

[Fishrrman]

I don't see why they would require Chrome (which is all about tracking you).

If Safari doesn't work for you, you might try:
- Brave browser
- iCab
- Epic Privacy Browser
- Vivaldi

 

[iStorm]

Chrome is pretty much the standard these days due to the large market share. (Similar to how many sites worked best in Internet Explorer when it was king back in the day.) It's unfortunate that some sites don't work well in Safari, but there are other Chromium-based browsers you could use instead for those instances. Microsoft Edge is another chromium-browser, and is the one I use since it works best with my work O365 account. But if you're more concerned about privacy, Fishrrman has a few other good Chromium-based browsers listed.

 

[Juicy Box]

You don't have to "switch" to chrome.

Many Mac users use Safari for the huge majority of web browsing, but use alternative browsers such as Chrome or Firefox for sites that do not work well on Safari.

 

[velocityg4]

No reason to switch to Chrome. Chrome and Chromium based browsers have a huge market share. So, websites give the most attention to testing their site on Chrome.

Most of the time. If a website is having an issue. It's some extension or setting you have blocking it or something is temporarily wrong with the site or the sites servers. It's rare that switching browsers fixes the issue.

 

[Apple_Robert]

Sounds like the rep was reading off cue cards.

 

[fourthtunz]

You don't have to "switch" to chrome.

Many Mac users use Safari for the huge majority of web browsing, but use alternative browsers such as Chrome or Firefox for sites that do not work well on Safari.

yeah I did get firefox years ago for some site that wouldn't load safari but I thought that was behind us!
I mean how many iPhones does US cellular sell?
Whatever I'll keep my service but buy my next iPhone somewhere else.

 

[LizKat]

It's true crappy websites are even crappier on browsers they don't support.

Reviving this thread instead of opening a new one about websites suggesting to use Chrome: today not for the first time I had difficulty trying to log into FedEx website using Firefox..

FedEx site usually balks once when I try to log into my setup using Firefox, but on the 2nd try it lets me in. Not today, or at least not after I had earlier made a profile change to add a phone number, and then happened to want later on to check the details on a tracking notice I had received. I tried a third or fourth time instead of asking for a reset and it locked up.

Fnally spoke with a tech rep on the phone who said yeah can't use Firefox for awhile now at FedEx, you need to use "either Chrome or IE4". (Seriously am I missing something here? Wasn't IE4 a browser from early Windows era?)

Anyway I did manage to recover and then reset my password at FedEx while I was on the phone with their rep. Then it did let me in on a second try using Firefox... but the rep said again "get Chrome, because this will keep happening with Firefox.

The thing is I don't want to use Chrome. So far I've managed to get by with balky websites by using Safari when a site doesn't like Firefox.

I'm thinking with this situation I could just turn off the Firefox "standard' protections for FedEx site when I want to use that site and then delete the exception when done? I did not get into that with their tech rep though. Not sure the anti-tracking is the only thing Firefox latest versions don't like about FedEx site.

What I did do was search for others' experience of not being able to log into FedEx website with Firefox browser, and there are some reddit remarks to that effect. I don't feel encouraged, after reading those posts, that there's going to be a solution anytime soon, not from Mozilla and certainly not from FedEx.

So my question here is does anyone else here have troubles with logging into FedEx with latest versions of Firefox on MacOS (Intel chip, MBA 2020, Big Sur)?

Anyone saying yes, did you try Safari? I'm reluctant to mess with my FedEx account now to find out if that's an option...