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The difference is, if devs don’t support your brower, your browsing experience suffers. Every developer on Earth could leave Facebook and it would not make the

• mrtksn 9y ago
  I remember the process, it had nothing to do with the dev support. Actually, it was the other way around - IE had all the dev support and websites broke down on Firefox but people were fanatics. There were extensions that let you render the page in IE if it's not working on Firefox. When the Chrome came along, Firefox already put a dent in IE market share and it already became socially unacceptable for techies to use IE but regular people still used IE so the devs were forced to make sure that everything works perfectly on IE too. For the masses, thanks to the developers, IE displayed the websites just fine up until the bitter end. Friends didn't let friends use IE and it was killed.
  • tatersolid 9y ago
    IE11 still has 75% share in the banking industry. It’s far from dead, although we’re finally seeing Edge and Firefox rise a bit more sharply. Slow-moving, heavily regulated corps with lots of internal legacy apps simply cannot use Chrome with its frequent feature deprecation, weak management, and constant desire to send telemetry and who knows what else to Google servers.
• nine_k 9y ago
  This is fair. But if users flee from FB, or just start using it less, it does have an impact on advertising: it becomes less effective.