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That's one of the problems with Firefox adoption at the moment. No normie will use a browser that might not work on a given site, but no developer will test for the 1% of users
I don't know how many normal sites even have a problem with Firefox. I guess only some small, niche web apps, but otherwise most people would see no difference. Even if developers don't explicitly test on Firefox, almost all features will still just work (at least for normie usage). Power users might encounter some challenges, as the post describes.
I use Firefox btw. (not Arch though)
nameisp.com, snapchat.com, and teams.microsoft.com are the ones I can think of off the top of my head. nameisp.com is especially frustrating, because it doesn't have a "doesn't work with Firefox" banner, it just inexplicably breaks on Firefox.
Also, Firefox and Chrome handle broken XML differently, which has broken a number of internal websites for me.
Wow, you're right. Teams is not fully supported. Apparently Video and Sharing in Meetings is limited. Didn't know that. Well that sucks
It's mainly the developer tools that were way better than in any other browser for a while. I think Firefox has caught up and I thought about switching a couple of times, but old habits die hard.
At work we had a front end bug ticket filed and one of the other engineers determined it was only affecting Firefox.
Our product manager said "who still uses Firefox anyway?". I was the one to pipe up and say actually I use it too
I seem to be using multiple browsers at the moment. On desktop, Arc (chrome wrapped in a fancy UI) On mobile (iOS), I primarily use Orion as it does an amazing job of blocking intrusive and endless ads. Finally Safari or Firefox on iOS for compatibility on occasional sites. The main day to day feature I like is vertical tabs. Both Arc and Orion have this out of the box.
Doesn't iOS only allow safaris browser engine? So all browsers there are just different UIs for it?
Good point and at the moment yes. Hopefully that is ‘soon’ to change.
I mainly use Orion on iOS as it has built in Ad tracking blockers. I’m not against ads on sites, but they have become so intrusive and make browsing on the move very disruptive.
Well… isn’t it more WebKit vs. rest instead of Chrome vs. Firefox?
I’m mainly using safari privately Edge at work. Both are WebKit and I don’t have any problems.
Edge uses Chromium. The only Browser still using WebKit is Safari, most others use Chromium (Blink) as their engine.
Oh… damn. I thought they were still on the same basis. Sorry, my fault. :(
I switched to Firefox from Brave a while ago, partly due to Mozilla's Mastodon announcement and their general approach, and to be honest it's been fine for the most part.
That said, I've absolutely run into some minor issues on a couple of sites that were indeed fixed by using Brave again.