I'm not trying to excuse Google, but feature detection is really hard and browsers sometimes suck with their APIs.

I just recently started using a modified version of the "h265ify" add-on that just advertises support of a few extra codecs (HEVC and surprisingly MPEG-2) to websites. With both Edge and Chrome, I do that because I know the formats work but the API doesn't indicate they do.

There's no excuse for not being able to read the user-agent strings of the top five browsers in the world, especially when 2 of them (at least) are your own code base.

Everything is hard if you don't want to do it.

What is the name of this addon?

On Android, it's one of the very few allowed ones, Google Search Fixer[1].

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/google-search...

afaik, pretty much any user-agent changer works. At least that's what one of my colleagues uses to join MS Teams meetings on Firefox. Simply switch your user-agent to Chrome, and it should do the trick.

This is the one I use, i think: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-search...

Afair there's also one for YouTube.

"This add-on is not available on your platform." on Desktop Linux.. what makes this windows only?

tagging myself in here as well

You can favourite HN comments if you just want to come back to them.

To clarify, since it's not obvious in the UI, you have to click the timestamp of the comment, and then you can favorite it.

Or install this extension https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news to have better UI on HN

Thanks, I should have mentioned that. A couple of features are hidden in the show comment view.

Damn, I've been here for years and never knew that you could favorite things!

What are the Chrome version of things specifically? I just wonder what I'm missing out on..

Mobile Firefox gets a very basic result page for "weather" for no clear reason.

link?