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Post by SouthernComputerGeek » 2024-04-13, 00:33

I was trying to download a file from Google Drive with Pale Moon and a new tab opened up but wouldn't load. I tried Firefox. No dice. I tried Safari. Nada. I tried Chrome and it magically worked. GRRRRRRRRRRR! Screw you Google, screw you!
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Re: Google being Google

Post by athenian200 » 2024-04-13, 03:04

It looks like more and more, the sites that don't work in Pale Moon also don't work in Firefox. For a while Mozilla was keeping up with Chrome a bit better than we were, but it seems like we're catching up to where they were, and they're falling behind...
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Re: Google being Google

Post by suzyne » 2024-04-13, 03:51

In the past I have found that downloading from Google Drive only works with cookie settings that are very permissive. Maybe your install of Chrome has different settings from the other browsers? Or Google is doing something tricky when Chrome is detected.
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Re: Google being Google

Post by Moonchild » 2024-04-13, 09:41

Google has lately been on another push to make things Blink-exclusive, from what I've been able to tell. There've been multiple reports of things only working on Blink, and not even Gecko. Not sure where we're going with this, tbh, but the situation we're in is not much different for us than we've been in before, which is that Google services work in their own web client Google Chrome, and may or may not work in anything else.
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Re: Google being Google

Post by back2themoon » 2024-04-17, 10:07

Google Drive specifically (possibly other Google services too), also requires 'relaxed' HTTP Referer settings. If something is blocked/masked there, it won't download files. At least that was the case fairly recently.
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<skip> here means: just use default behaviour i.e. don't remove/hide/mask anything referer-related
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