Dish Anywhere issue

[jpmarto]

(I've searched for an answer to this, but fournd nothing currently relevent.) I've never had much luck with DA, but tonight I have good WiFi at my campground and decided to try again. When I finally got through what seemed to be a recursive login procedure, it said I had an unsupported browser (Firefox) and I needed to install Chrome. Not. Gonna. Install. Chrome. Ever.

Do I have any alternatives? I'm running Windows 10 on a Lenovo T530. I do have an Amazon 7" Fire tablet I haven't tried to use yet.

Thanks!

 

[HipKat]

(I've searched for an answer to this, but fournd nothing currently relevent.) I've never had much luck with DA, but tonight I have good WiFi at my campground and decided to try again. When I finally got through what seemed to be a recursive login procedure, it said I had an unsupported browser (Firefox) and I needed to install Chrome. Not. Gonna. Install. Chrome. Ever.

Do I have any alternatives? I'm running Windows 10 on a Lenovo T530. I do have an Amazon 7" Fire tablet I haven't tried to use yet.

Thanks!

Right now, on a PC or Laptop, it's Chrome only.Not sure why you wouldn't install Chrome, but your choice. Not sure on the tablet, but you can try.

 

[jscud]

(I've searched for an answer to this, but fournd nothing currently relevent.) (Firefox) and I needed to install Chrome. Not. Gonna. Install. Chrome. Ever.

Do I have any alternatives? I'm running Windows 10 on a Lenovo T530. I do have an Amazon 7" Fire tablet I haven't tried to use yet.

Thanks!

There is Chromium, the open source version of Chrome; Edge, the Windows 10 browser based on Chromium or Opera.

 

[JSheridan]

There is Chromium, the open source version of Chrome; Edge, the Windows 10 browser based on Chromium or Opera.

I believe that Chromium Edge is still in beta.

 

[jpmarto]

Thanks all for the responses. I anticipated it was "use Chrome or go home" if I wanted Dish Anywhere. I've just run into a situation where Google won't let me log into an email account without linking a phone number (said I was logging in from a "new device" I've been using as my primary PC for the last 3 years), and I'll never install a personal data mining system (Chrome) on my machine by choice. I understand Firefox is no walk in the park for developers, but IMHO Dish should let us use it (or a small computing company's IE or Edge ) if we accept the consequences.

 

[dennispap]

(I've searched for an answer to this, but fournd nothing currently relevent.) I've never had much luck with DA, but tonight I have good WiFi at my campground and decided to try again. When I finally got through what seemed to be a recursive login procedure, it said I had an unsupported browser (Firefox) and I needed to install Chrome. Not. Gonna. Install. Chrome. Ever.

Do I have any alternatives? I'm running Windows 10 on a Lenovo T530. I do have an Amazon 7" Fire tablet I haven't tried to use yet.

Thanks!

I use the dish anywhere app on my fire tablet with no problems.

 

[NYDutch]

Thanks all for the responses. I anticipated it was "use Chrome or go home" if I wanted Dish Anywhere. I've just run into a situation where Google won't let me log into an email account without linking a phone number (said I was logging in from a "new device" I've been using as my primary PC for the last 3 years), and I'll never install a personal data mining system (Chrome) on my machine by choice. I understand Firefox is no walk in the park for developers, but IMHO Dish should let us use it (or a small computing company's IE or Edge ) if we accept the consequences.

The current beta browser versions from MS are Chrome based and DA does work with them.

 

[BradleyD]

DA works on Vivaldi. I use it.

 

[NYDutch]

DA works on Vivaldi. I use it.

Yes, Vivaldi and Brave are both Chrome based browsers that DA works with.

 

[jpmarto]

Thanks for the latest replies, I really appreciate the advice. I'll download the suggested browsers and try them out when I get back to campground tomorrow.

 

[jpmarto]

FWIW, I installed Opera (65.0.3467.48 ) and am currently watching DishAnywhere with no apparent issues. Thanks for the help!

 

[NYDutch]

Opera is another open source Chrome based browser...