Is there a reason why? Less funding? Web devs don’t make the pages Firefox friendly? Since the user base is smaller, they just don’t care?

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    6 months ago

    Ah. You pray at the altar of Google with the mantra: “It only works in Chrome or Edge. Why not upgrade your browser?”

    What could possibly go wrong with giving all the power to one browser engine? If only there was a precedent to learn from…

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      6 months ago

      Haha, no. We don’t pray. We make web apps to make money. Catering to a negligible users who for some reason want to use the single browser with issues, that’s up to them.

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        6 months ago

        I use firefox exclusively, on both my laptop and my phone. It works perfectly on any website I throw at it. I work for a startup which makes video call apps, the web client works perfectly under Firefox, and there’s a grand total of 2 devs working on it.

        All this to say that if I come across your website and it doesn’t work under Firefox, AFAIC it’s your website that has issues, not Firefox.

        As for the reason, you might be fine with a single megacorp dictating the way the web works, but for many of us who remember what it was like in the IE hegemony days it’s a serious concern.

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              6 months ago

              I would, if there wasn’t for my personal experience of using Firefox, when I had to switch to other browsers for some websites I used.

              Its because of that, that when we decided to ignore Firefox, I wasn’t against it.

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            6 months ago

            It’s a question of

            How much effort (man hours which ultimately translates to $$$) versus how much revenue lost (people not buying because of Firefox bugs)

            In my experience this depends on your specific application. Sometimes there are weird bugs or behavior where you have to really hunt down what’s going on. Other times it’s as simple as changing a few css lines or something.

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              6 months ago

              It’s almost impossible to calculate revenue lost, but as much as we tried, it was 0 or almost 0.

              Again, we don’t even check anymore.