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Hermit Nov 25, 2022 @ 3:17pm

Allow us to change the browser

Let's be honest, not a single person has ever said "wow the internet browser steam uses sure is great!" Let me change it to Firefox. I'd almost rather use Internet explorer.

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Tito Shivan Nov 25, 2022 @ 3:42pm

Just use an actual browser? I can't even remember when was the last time I used the client for anything else than the library view.

Hermit Nov 25, 2022 @ 3:47pm

Originally posted by Tito Shivan:
Just use an actual browser? I can't even remember when was the last time I used the client for anything else than the library view.

Well id love to avoid it but since valve decided to leave those of us that bought mōíves and episode out in the cold, I have no choice but to watch them in the browser because they don't work in the steam client.

Pscht Nov 25, 2022 @ 4:05pm

Wait, are you somehow watching them while playing/running a game? When I double-click a video it opens in my regular browser.

cSg|mc-Hotsauce Nov 25, 2022 @ 4:05pm

Originally posted by Hermit:
Originally posted by Tito Shivan:
Just use an actual browser? I can't even remember when was the last time I used the client for anything else than the library view.
Well id love to avoid it but since valve decided to leave those of us that bought mōíves and episode out in the cold, I have no choice but to watch them in the browser because they don't work in the steam client.

They discontinued the client web player to watch them.

Last edited by cSg|mc-Hotsauce; Nov 25, 2022 @ 4:06pm

Hermit Nov 25, 2022 @ 4:14pm

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:
Originally posted by Hermit:
Well id love to avoid it but since valve decided to leave those of us that bought mōíves and episode out in the cold, I have no choice but to watch them in the browser because they don't work in the steam client.

They discontinued the client web player to watch them.

:qr:

Are you saying I can't watch them at all?

cSg|mc-Hotsauce Nov 25, 2022 @ 4:15pm

Originally posted by Hermit:
Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

They discontinued the client web player to watch them.

Are you saying I can't watch them at all?

In the Steam client, no.

If anyone is confused about what the topic is actually about, here is the context...

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/3595590330324234958/

Last edited by cSg|mc-Hotsauce; Nov 25, 2022 @ 4:21pm

Quint the Alligator Snapper Nov 29, 2022 @ 8:27pm

Don't use the built-in Steam client's browser.

Frankly speaking it shouldn't even contain a browser. It should just be a launcher. It's a design mistake that they decided to make the launcher have a browser-based GUI.

Does -no-browser still work? I'd launch Steam with that, preferably. Then, maintain a Steam login in an actual full-function browser. This is useful for multiple reasons, both security (makes it easier to identify phishing pages) and convenience (regular browsers keep history which is useful for finding what happened to threads that now show up as "moved or deleted" on one's notifications).

Jens Nov 30, 2022 @ 3:08am

Yes, browser freedom would be great and much safer.

Also the Steam browser cannot zoom.

Last edited by Jens; Nov 30, 2022 @ 3:09am

aiusepsi Nov 30, 2022 @ 4:33am

Unfortunately, browsers aren't interchangeable components; embeddable browsers don't have a single standardised interface, so you can't just pull one out and plug another one in. Trying to put in Firefox would be trying to jam a square peg into a round hole.

I'm not even sure that Firefox/Gecko has particularly good support for embedding right now; there's been a few efforts to make it happen over the years, but they all seem to have quietly died. The latest I can find is a request from the community to make a Firefox/Gecko alternative to CEF[connect.mozilla.org].

In a perfect world, you'd want to get people from Microsoft, Apple, Google, and Mozilla into a room and not let them leave until they did standardise an embedded browser interface, and it would improve the situation immensely.

Last edited by aiusepsi; Nov 30, 2022 @ 4:40am

Trueblue1878 Apr 17 @ 2:25pm

I totally want this too! I have looked for ways to do it, but the browser is built into Steam, and not a separate applet that you can tinker with. Only Valve could ever change this. Its pretty useless and should come with some sort of ad-blocker or atleast the ability to disable flash and java popups which plague the likes of fandom, IGN etc

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