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[โ€“] 64 points 2 months ago (13 children)
  • [โ€“] 50 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

    A thin layer of chromium on the surface of a metal to make it shiny and protect from corrosion.

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  • [โ€“] 24 points 2 months ago (1 child)
  • [โ€“] 2 points 2 months ago

    I used to work in manufacturing and we made a sort of tube socket that was cadmium plated on the outside and chrome plated on the inside.

    I wonder how many people got cancer plating those things. Ironically, all of the platers were in California because it was banned for new plating centers in most other states.

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  • [โ€“] 16 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Isn't that the shiny stuff you hang from trees in the winter?

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  • [โ€“] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)
  • [โ€“] 14 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Chromium is the browser that I open a few times a year for websites that don't support Firefox. A few may be a gross over estimate.

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  • [โ€“] 11 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Fair, I just abandon the site. It's their problem not mine.

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  • [โ€“] 9 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    It's really seldom, but a few years back there was a government website that only worked with chrome or edge that I had to use. I had one the other night and found a work around. It's a rare occurrence, and usually I can avoid it, but sometimes I have to just suck it up, do the deed, and bail.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    I don't design web apps but I've heard from some that do that firefox occasionally has problems with them, because it relies a lot on caching (actually they used the term "aggressive caching", with a few extra choice words).

    Anyway, usually not a problem. I use edge only for work since it's the default browser and I barely do any actual browsing with it, mostly light app clients. On my own devices, it's been firefox only for years.

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