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I gave Firefox an honest go, but some web apps just don't work 100% in it. Chrome does not have this issue. Most of us drive cars filled with fuel from evil oi

I gave Firefox an honest go, but some web apps just don't work 100% in it. Chrome does not have this issue. Most of us drive cars filled with fuel from evil oil companies, why do we all drive cars?

moreira 8y ago
That compatibility with different browsers is a big enough issue in 2019 to stop you from using Firefox is just a sad reminder of how far we’ve fallen. Used to be that we actually cared about stuff being usable across browsers, after what we experienced during IE’s dominance. It’s also a testament to Chrome’s dominance -now-.
Doctor_Fegg 8y ago
> why do we all drive cars? ...we don't?
- lghh 8y ago
  >90% of us do, or at least that's what I'd reasonably guess.
NeoBasilisk 8y ago
Is the stuff not working in Firefox due to lazy devs too young to remember IE6?
- Jach 8y ago
  It's partly that, but it's also partly that the pace at which new standards of useful things get implemented (pre-ratification and post ratification) entails patchy support plus differing implementation decisions from under-specified standards. My favorite example area right now is all the fun that is CSP. Firefox supports the SecurityPolicyViolation Event, which is useful so that you can let non-power users know about CSP issues without having to open the console, except it's gated by a setting in about:config that is off by default. Additionally for CSP's report-uri endpoint, Firefox won't send up any cookies with a request to that endpoint (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1506992 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1506992) which sucks if the endpoint relied on authentication that way. Chrome just works, meanwhile, on both of these issues. (Of course personally, if something doesn't work in Firefox, then I just don't use that something, or if I really need to (e.g. test business feature), I use chromium for just that one thing.)
busterarm 8y ago
Because for most people there is no reasonable alternative to cars. Chrome does have reasonable alternatives.
dexen 8y ago
>I gave Firefox an honest go, but some web apps just don't work 100% in it. Chrome does not have this issue. Used to be the same problem with Firefox vs IE6. And that was exactly when people got serious about the need to defeat the monopoly of IE.
driverdan 8y ago
Which apps don't work in Firefox? I've never encountered one.
- Felz 8y ago
  I noticed Google Voice was broken in Firefox yesterday. (Shocking, I know.)

I gave Firefox an honest go, but some web apps just don't work 100% in it. Chrome does not have this issue. Most of us drive cars filled with fuel from evil oil companies, why do we all drive cars?

moreira 8y ago

That compatibility with different browsers is a big enough issue in 2019 to stop you from using Firefox is just a sad reminder of how far we’ve fallen. Used to be that we actually cared about stuff being usable across browsers, after what we experienced during IE’s dominance. It’s also a testament to Chrome’s dominance -now-.

Doctor_Fegg 8y ago

> why do we all drive cars? ...we don't?

lghh 8y ago
>90% of us do, or at least that's what I'd reasonably guess.

NeoBasilisk 8y ago

Is the stuff not working in Firefox due to lazy devs too young to remember IE6?

Jach 8y ago
It's partly that, but it's also partly that the pace at which new standards of useful things get implemented (pre-ratification and post ratification) entails patchy support plus differing implementation decisions from under-specified standards. My favorite example area right now is all the fun that is CSP. Firefox supports the SecurityPolicyViolation Event, which is useful so that you can let non-power users know about CSP issues without having to open the console, except it's gated by a setting in about:config that is off by default. Additionally for CSP's report-uri endpoint, Firefox won't send up any cookies with a request to that endpoint (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1506992 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1506992) which sucks if the endpoint relied on authentication that way. Chrome just works, meanwhile, on both of these issues. (Of course personally, if something doesn't work in Firefox, then I just don't use that something, or if I really need to (e.g. test business feature), I use chromium for just that one thing.)

busterarm 8y ago

Because for most people there is no reasonable alternative to cars. Chrome does have reasonable alternatives.

dexen 8y ago

>I gave Firefox an honest go, but some web apps just don't work 100% in it. Chrome does not have this issue. Used to be the same problem with Firefox vs IE6. And that was exactly when people got serious about the need to defeat the monopoly of IE.

driverdan 8y ago

Which apps don't work in Firefox? I've never encountered one.

Felz 8y ago
I noticed Google Voice was broken in Firefox yesterday. (Shocking, I know.)