Berkeley anybody who requires Chrome (or any specific browser) to use a basic website. In the ear. With a pike. Or a chainsaw on a stick.
It is utterly un-berkeleying-acceptable, and the only thing that can compound such a maneuver is to not state the requirement, and to have your CSRs tell folks to try again later. Two go-rounds of CSRs before finding someone who knew that the issue was that I wasn't using Chrome.
I have since uninstalled it. "Don't be evil." It shouldn't have been difficult.
The entire premise of the Internet is that any device which "speaks" the related protocols can communicate. Anybody whose general-purpose (e.g. browser) software breaks that premise is trying to annex the Internet. Jail time is probably a bit much, but could we at least not reward them?
In reply to Jesse Ransom :
I've been telling people for probably about a decade at this point that the worst browser monopoly to ever exist was right now, with Chrome. At this point everything else is a rounding error, and half the competition is Chromium-based anyway. Google's actually being way less evil than they could be with that amount of power.
In reply to Jesse Ransom :
Like my work? WE have to print out THEIR pay stub. They require Chrome. I won't out that crap on my computer. There's a reason I haven't seen a single pay stub since I started there 20 months ago.
In reply to Jesse Ransom :
That's initially why I refused to join Facebook. Any website that keeps its data in a walled garden unsearchable by outside crawlers is suspect. It's anathema.
An inspection software package that I used to have to use (AS1) said that you had to use Chrome. Turns out Firefox worked just fine 
