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I love Firefox and I use it on principle. I don’t think I have a worse web experience, although that wouldn’t stop me. What does break websites is turning on a

I love Firefox and I use it on principle. I don’t think I have a worse web experience, although that wouldn’t stop me. What does break websites is turning on anti-tracking measures. The number of times a site won’t work till I enable third party cookies shows the sad state of the web. Developers, do you only test in Chrome on Windows with default settings or something?

skizm 6y ago
"Whatever gets my jira from the left side of the board to the right side of the board."
l3_ 6y ago
the tab containers are amazing
noahtallen 6y ago
> The number of times a site won’t work till I enable third party cookies shows the sad state of the web. Developers, do you only test in Chrome on Windows with default settings or something? Well, Chrome is removing 3rd-party cookies by next year, and they are disabled by default in Safari already (well, sort of, ITP is weird). So many problems which used to happen to very few users are now being quickly prioritized. There are lots of use cases for third party cookies (example: you have a centralized management platform for lots of websites which have unique mapped domains, and you want to be authenticated against all of them at once), so it’s not surprising that critical features can be broken. It’s very much backwards incompatible. But I agree, overall removing 3rd party cookies is great. Though, it’s important that whatever advertisers think of next isn’t just as bad.
toastal 6y ago
I've hated my experience with resistFingerprinting enabled. I can't get dark themes, my clock and times are always wrong, you're locked to en-US, no WebGL, etc.; basically any feature that could make the web nicer and have content tailored for be is now weaponized for fingerprinting. I've recently switched off fingerprint resistance and moved to a script blocker as the sites I do trust do offer a nicer experience I've been missing out on.
- account42 6y ago
  > I can't get dark themes I really hate that firefox sets prefers-color-scheme: light with resistFingerprinting [0] even if the site is implemented in such a way that the color scheme selection provides no information to the server (no JS, no external resources loaded dependent on the color scheme). Even using no-preference would have been better - then the site could at least choose to make a dark theme the default. > you're locked to en-US Ugh, this will only lead to even more websites ignoring the Accept-Language header and just guessing based on location derived from the IP address. [0] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1540726 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1540726
  - toastal 6y ago
    100% I hate getting targeted based on my IP -- especially using a VPN. I happen to speak and prefer "en-US", but I don't think it's good for the internet in general.

skizm 6y ago

"Whatever gets my jira from the left side of the board to the right side of the board."

l3_ 6y ago

the tab containers are amazing

noahtallen 6y ago

> The number of times a site won’t work till I enable third party cookies shows the sad state of the web. Developers, do you only test in Chrome on Windows with default settings or something? Well, Chrome is removing 3rd-party cookies by next year, and they are disabled by default in Safari already (well, sort of, ITP is weird). So many problems which used to happen to very few users are now being quickly prioritized. There are lots of use cases for third party cookies (example: you have a centralized management platform for lots of websites which have unique mapped domains, and you want to be authenticated against all of them at once), so it’s not surprising that critical features can be broken. It’s very much backwards incompatible. But I agree, overall removing 3rd party cookies is great. Though, it’s important that whatever advertisers think of next isn’t just as bad.

toastal 6y ago

I've hated my experience with resistFingerprinting enabled. I can't get dark themes, my clock and times are always wrong, you're locked to en-US, no WebGL, etc.; basically any feature that could make the web nicer and have content tailored for be is now weaponized for fingerprinting. I've recently switched off fingerprint resistance and moved to a script blocker as the sites I do trust do offer a nicer experience I've been missing out on.

account42 6y ago
> I can't get dark themes I really hate that firefox sets prefers-color-scheme: light with resistFingerprinting [0] even if the site is implemented in such a way that the color scheme selection provides no information to the server (no JS, no external resources loaded dependent on the color scheme). Even using no-preference would have been better - then the site could at least choose to make a dark theme the default. > you're locked to en-US Ugh, this will only lead to even more websites ignoring the Accept-Language header and just guessing based on location derived from the IP address. [0] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1540726 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1540726
- toastal 6y ago
  100% I hate getting targeted based on my IP -- especially using a VPN. I happen to speak and prefer "en-US", but I don't think it's good for the internet in general.