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Anecdotally, I've noticed an increasing number of websites where basic functionality does not work on desktop Firefox. I now have to open Chrome on a daily basi
by prova_modena 4y ago
Anecdotally, I've noticed an increasing number of websites where basic functionality does not work on desktop Firefox. I now have to open Chrome on a daily basis whereas just a couple years ago I was 100% FF for browsing (not counting using other browsers for front end testing etc).
For example, FedEx tracking refuses to work on Firefox. Shapeways (3D printing service) landing page was (is?) broken/non interactive on FF. Also a vBulletin based forum I regularly visit started return 400 Bad Request responses when visiting with FF. All these work fine with Chrome and used to work with Firefox.
- piggybox 4y agoChrome is the new IE
- politelemon 4y agoThe IE reference was specific unreasonable technologies, forced defaults and restrictions placed on developers by the browser vendor. Not related to popularity. Safari is the new IE by any measure.
- acomjean 4y agoYou are giving me bad flashbacks to Internet Explorer websites. When I worked at a large (fortune 500) defense contractor the new timecard portal was ie only. We had no windows machines (we were a SunOS and HPUX shop). Solution was to set up a citrix windows NT environment, so we'd all have go to a separate terminal and remote into these machines to do our time in IE. For me firefox was failing on some ordering sites, but it turned out to be I had ublock origin on my firefox which some sites won't work with.
- copperx 4y agoI've noticed this more and more. What's strange, is that Safari is often more compatible with such websites than Firefox. "Is the website down, or is it just Firefox?" is a question I ask myself several times a day nowadays.