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There's an obvious reason: preventing bugs. If I were to make a bank transfer, and the process hanged in the final step because of an incompatible browser, I'd
by idoubtit 4y ago
There's an obvious reason: preventing bugs.
If I were to make a bank transfer, and the process hanged in the final step because of an incompatible browser, I'd be furious, even if I had been warned about the risk using FF. In the worse case, I could be wondering if I need to repeat the operation with Chrome, or if the failure occurred after the transfer and repeating would duplicate...
If they don't test their website with FF, there's a higher risk of bugs. A FF user might not even realize that they're hindered by bugs: the site could be much slower, or some blocks would not refresh, or some transactions fail silently. If it doesn't clearly look broken, and just behaves badly, the user will probably blame the website instead of switching to a Chromium-based browser.
- brokenmachine 4y agoNot every website is a banking website.
- verdverm 4y agoNot every developer has time to deal with Firefox and other fringe browsers' differences
- brokenmachine 4y agoYes, but it hardly matters for a page of reddit memes. I don't want to live in a world where google is in complete control of the web.
- verdverm 4y agoThen maybe help work on it? Be the change you want to see in the world The market will weed out those that are not competitive
- brokenmachine 4y agoI don't have the skills for that, but I can't be without some of the Firefox addons, so I have been happy to support by using Firefox and other alternatives.