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It’s also trivially easy to disable ads in the Windows start menu, but the fact that they’re even there is shocking. I use Firefox because I want to do at leas

by pdpi 11mo ago

It’s also trivially easy to disable ads in the Windows start menu, but the fact that they’re even there is shocking. I use Firefox because I want to do at least something to keep the web browser market from becoming a monoculture again, but they’re making it increasingly hard to justify.

pjmlp 11mo ago
Sadly Firefox has been out of our browser matrix for several years now, it is only taken into consideration by FE teams when the customers explicitly ask for it being supported. I also use because I care, but at 3% hardly any business does any longer.
- wredcoll 11mo ago
  I had a ceo type person ask me just last week if we were testing on firefox and I kinda did a double take.
  - larrymcp 11mo ago
    I think I understand where he's at. If your web site has compatibility issues with smaller browsers like Firefox at 3%, Opera at 2% etc. then you could be losing out on 5% of your sales. If you were to approach any CEO and ask if they'd be interested in an initiative to increase sales by 5%, they would most likely express an interest.
    - PunchyHamster 11mo ago
      there is good chance whoever site didn't worked for will just switch to chrome for that site. I did that few times. We have "any browser above 5% market share" in deals with our clients. So FF testing is not even required
    - wredcoll 11mo ago
      I mean, I don't object in principle, I in general consider this to be "doing a good job" that we all strive for, but in this particular case it was a "line of business" app with like 500 users so I genuinely hadn't even considered it. We'll see if it comes up later!
- wongarsu 11mo ago
  That entirely depends on who those 3% are and how much revenue they bring. Back when IE6 had 3% that was reason enough to keep supporting it
  - pjmlp 11mo ago
    IE6 was already announced dead by Microsoft when it reached so tiny market share, you are forgetting IE got several versions up to 11, before being replaced by Edge, followed by Edge Chrome, later rebranded as Edge.
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by pdpi 11mo ago

pjmlp 11mo ago

Sadly Firefox has been out of our browser matrix for several years now, it is only taken into consideration by FE teams when the customers explicitly ask for it being supported. I also use because I care, but at 3% hardly any business does any longer.

wredcoll 11mo ago
I had a ceo type person ask me just last week if we were testing on firefox and I kinda did a double take.
- larrymcp 11mo ago
  I think I understand where he's at. If your web site has compatibility issues with smaller browsers like Firefox at 3%, Opera at 2% etc. then you could be losing out on 5% of your sales. If you were to approach any CEO and ask if they'd be interested in an initiative to increase sales by 5%, they would most likely express an interest.
  - PunchyHamster 11mo ago
    there is good chance whoever site didn't worked for will just switch to chrome for that site. I did that few times. We have "any browser above 5% market share" in deals with our clients. So FF testing is not even required
  - wredcoll 11mo ago
    I mean, I don't object in principle, I in general consider this to be "doing a good job" that we all strive for, but in this particular case it was a "line of business" app with like 500 users so I genuinely hadn't even considered it. We'll see if it comes up later!
wongarsu 11mo ago
That entirely depends on who those 3% are and how much revenue they bring. Back when IE6 had 3% that was reason enough to keep supporting it
- pjmlp 11mo ago
  IE6 was already announced dead by Microsoft when it reached so tiny market share, you are forgetting IE got several versions up to 11, before being replaced by Edge, followed by Edge Chrome, later rebranded as Edge.
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