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IE was technically garbage and people eagerly wanted to get away from it as it broke sites. Sites are now mostly built and tested on Chrome. Firefox breaks sit

IE was technically garbage and people eagerly wanted to get away from it as it broke sites. Sites are now mostly built and tested on Chrome. Firefox breaks sites.

viraptor 2y ago
There's some very specific sites that are broken in non-chrome browsers. Writing this message took you more time than you'd spend starting chrome specifically for them for the next few months.
noman-land 2y ago
This is FUD. Firefox doesn't break any sites. There is functionally no difference between sites rendered in Firefox and sites rendered in Chrome.
Y_Y 2y ago
Firefox is a decent browser. Some sites are coded like shit and then they futz around until it works in whatever Chrome your cousin used for development.
wizzwizz4 2y ago
I see you managed to avoid encountering the Great ActiveX Catastrophe. Microsoft successfully managed to lock thousands of services behind proprietary extensions that only IE supported. Also, IE wasn't technically garbage. There were a few, specific things wrong with it. Its main issue was that it implemented web features idiosyncratically, and Microsoft didn't document it, so you had to learn all of IE's "quirks" through trial and error: but apart from being undocumented, few of IE's idiosyncrasies were actually bugs. Its box model, for example, was arguably superior to the official W3C recommendation.
loloquwowndueo 2y ago
Firefox doesn’t break sites.
yoyohello13 2y ago
I've been using Firefox exclusively for years. I have no idea what these people who say it breaks sites are talking about. If you absolutely need to use chrome for something just keep chromium around for that specific site.
ChrisGranger 2y ago
For sites that break when using Firefox, you can report them here: https://webcompat.com/ https://webcompat.com/
yreg 2y ago
All browsers break sites. In the past few months we've had our stuff broken due to bugs in Safari, Chromium and even Firefox. But the situation is nothing like when IE was alive. Webdevelopment is much more pleasant now. If I had to pick a black sheep now, I would say it's Safari, simply because the updates are tied in with OS updates. That's a shame.
- noman-land 2y ago
  Safari is the one, nowadays, that seems to always be the outlier.
freehorse 2y ago
Removing ad blocking is what breaks the internet for me. Firefox is working 99.9% fine except 0.1% of site which I usually do not miss or in the worst case open in another browser. This is an insignificant nuance compared to the constant distraction of not using an ad blocker.

IE was technically garbage and people eagerly wanted to get away from it as it broke sites. Sites are now mostly built and tested on Chrome. Firefox breaks sites.

viraptor 2y ago

There's some very specific sites that are broken in non-chrome browsers. Writing this message took you more time than you'd spend starting chrome specifically for them for the next few months.

noman-land 2y ago

This is FUD. Firefox doesn't break any sites. There is functionally no difference between sites rendered in Firefox and sites rendered in Chrome.

Y_Y 2y ago

Firefox is a decent browser. Some sites are coded like shit and then they futz around until it works in whatever Chrome your cousin used for development.

wizzwizz4 2y ago

I see you managed to avoid encountering the Great ActiveX Catastrophe. Microsoft successfully managed to lock thousands of services behind proprietary extensions that only IE supported. Also, IE wasn't technically garbage. There were a few, specific things wrong with it. Its main issue was that it implemented web features idiosyncratically, and Microsoft didn't document it, so you had to learn all of IE's "quirks" through trial and error: but apart from being undocumented, few of IE's idiosyncrasies were actually bugs. Its box model, for example, was arguably superior to the official W3C recommendation.

loloquwowndueo 2y ago

Firefox doesn’t break sites.

yoyohello13 2y ago

I've been using Firefox exclusively for years. I have no idea what these people who say it breaks sites are talking about. If you absolutely need to use chrome for something just keep chromium around for that specific site.

ChrisGranger 2y ago

For sites that break when using Firefox, you can report them here: https://webcompat.com/ https://webcompat.com/

yreg 2y ago

All browsers break sites. In the past few months we've had our stuff broken due to bugs in Safari, Chromium and even Firefox. But the situation is nothing like when IE was alive. Webdevelopment is much more pleasant now. If I had to pick a black sheep now, I would say it's Safari, simply because the updates are tied in with OS updates. That's a shame.

noman-land 2y ago
Safari is the one, nowadays, that seems to always be the outlier.

freehorse 2y ago

Removing ad blocking is what breaks the internet for me. Firefox is working 99.9% fine except 0.1% of site which I usually do not miss or in the worst case open in another browser. This is an insignificant nuance compared to the constant distraction of not using an ad blocker.