Firefox

"I held off on Windows 10 for as long as I could until my job required it."

Good, users like you are the reason ransomware happens. Fucking update your shit. Windows 7 isn't secure anymore.

This is exactly why I switched from Photoshop to Affinity. It's just as good and somewhat even better than PS and it's a one time purchase forever. I will never look back.

Adobe has been a constant frustration for me. I was having issues with Acrobat DC on Windows 10 and ended up having to uninstall the 64 bit version and installing the legacy 32 bit version in its place.

I want to use something else for PDF editing but our company refuses to consider alternatives.

I was really hoping that the current AI tool revolution would finally kick Adobe off but with them buying Figma (which shouldn't have been allowed by anti trust in the first place) I don't see that happening yet. One day though.

Thank God I never had to learn any Adobe products, one of the most anti-consumer companies out there.

Looked it up and apparently its for tiktoks and AI. So, youre not missing out on much.

Although this isn't convenient. You could always file an issue on WebCompat to fix this.

Fuck Adobe

I love how on most sites it works with a user agent switcher

Nah, honestly I get this. They likely don’t let you run it in Safari either.

The problem is that each browser use different rendering and JavaScript engines. They all follow the same spec, but implement things differently, and at a different pace. Firefox tends to be really speedy with adding features.

Rendering is one thing, but for web apps the main issue is how they each implement JavaScript differently. Chromium uses the V8 engine, Safari uses JavaScriptCore, and Firefox uses SpiderMonkey.

Each one of these implementations handle certain JS features differently. Array.prototype.sort is a good example.

This means that when developing your application you need to keep track of what differences each browser has, and write/use polyfills or conditionals to ensure that your methods work as expected on all platforms.

This becomes cumbersome quickly, and easily leads to a messy code base and technical debt as the application grows.

It further complicates testing since you’ll need to test each release on each browser.

The easy cop-out solution is to just support a single platform, and direct people not on that platform to use the browser you’ve developed for.

The go-to choice there is obviously Chrome, since it has the most users. Photoshop Express is a free application developed with the hopes of hooking people onto buying a subscription. Thus they’d want as big a reach as possible. It would make no sense to develop for Firefox and push people to use that instead from a business perspective, most people wouldn’t just download a second browser just to use an app.

Edit: you can obviously spoof your user agent and bypass the check that way. Some features might be broken in Firefox though, and I wouldn’t expect a fix.

Their billing has been shady as fuck for two decades. This company is the worst.

Its a clear sign they feel threatened. Their fall is near.

I hijack this to inform that LR for Android can be revanced.

Yep, fuck em.