Is Firefox not powered by Chromium and can this cause a problem?

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I think you may have been given a bit of a lazy answer. Having most browsers use the same engine is bad for web standards, hands control of the web to one organisation and slows innovation.

More importantly though is finding out why the page is not working in Firefox as chances are it should work just fine.

If it is one that does not require specif credentials to access, are you able to share the website address?

Do you have any add-ons installed in Firefox?

What level of Enhanced Tracking Protection do you have set?

Your source is a bit over-exaggerated.

In the reality, only Opera and Microsoft Edge (Internet Explorer on a new name) switched to the Chromium.

Yes, that means, that while they kept their brand, they are actually using large part of the Chrome source code to show the web pages.

Other browsers did not do that. Most importantly, Firefox is using only part of the css code from the Chromium, and as far I know, Safari (Apple browser), konqueror (KDE builtin browser) is doing none of them.

About the Samsung or similar browsers, well it is not known widely. With a bit of googling, likely you could check it.

One of the reasons for using firefox (and maybe safari) is that using chrome-based browsers gives yet more power into the hands of the Google, to further monopolize the internet. Very likely, that is also a reason for the Asian Android creators, to use different or their own browser engines (they don't trust the West more as the West trusts them).

Paul, https://www.charles-stanley-direct.co.uk/ No add-ons Standard ETP Many thanks, Martin

How can we reproduce this issue? There's only "Sign In" form.

TyDraniu< Thank you for your interest. Obviously I cannot give you my sign in details for security

My stockbroker has commented as follows, after I complained of a problem with getting their website to operate correctly:"’m informed that most browsers use a common "engine" called Chromium, which was created by Google and is effectively Chrome. So no matter what browser you are using, if it's powered by Chromium you're effectively using Chrome, and our website/charts should work as designed. Chrome, Edge, Samsung Internet, and Opera all fall into this category. However, I’m afraid that Firefox does not."

If you make the effort to make the site work in Firefox as Firefox is highly compliant with modern web standards then it should work well in all browsers. If you only make the limited effort to just make it work in Chrome/Chromium browsers then you are being lazy and site may not fully work properly.

The Firefox web browsers for desktop Windows, macOS, Linux and Firefox for Android uses the superior Gecko as the rendering engine. Going to Chromium would be a downgrade and increase the monopoly it has. There are some third-party Firefox versions and also the SeaMonkey suite (a continuation of Mozilla's old Mozilla suite) though it is not being kept updated as much as Firefox is.

Firefox on iOS/iPadOS uses webkit as the base due to Apple's restrictions for so long on what browser engine can be used. This is why there are no Firefox extensions for Firefox on iOS/iPadOS. Though due to a more recent court ruling Mozilla could technically make a Gecko version of Firefox on iOS/iPadOS for some markets now..

Microsoft Edge and Opera uses to use their own browser engines but then some years ago decided to downgrade by being Chromium based.