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One of my main reasons for staying with Firefox is that in the long term, I think it's good to have a diversity in browser engines. Back when I started web dev
by perlgeek 1y ago
One of my main reasons for staying with Firefox is that in the long term, I think it's good to have a diversity in browser engines.
Back when I started web development, there were standards, but nearly everybody just coded to what Internet Explorer supported. Which I really hated :-)
In the past few years, I've seen the occasional "works best with Chrome" website, which worries me, but so far it hasn't been too bad.
But if we as a community leave the browser market to Chrome and browsers with engines of similar origin as Chrome's, we'll get back to the bad old days.
- sebstefan 1y ago> In the past few years, I've seen the occasional "works best with Chrome" website, which worries me, but so far it hasn't been too bad. Microphone & webcam support, screensharing and stuff like that almost always shit the bed for me. Slack, teams, they don't care to check if their shit works on firefox.
- comprev 1y agoAs Chrome has slowly become the default browser in enterprise environments it makes sense to cater for the _paying_ customers of Slack, Teams, Jira, etc. and they become the focus of product development. It didn't feel that long ago when Internet Explorer was the primary target for development.