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by sam_goody 2681 days ago
Alternatively, it work to FF's benefit that no one can know what the real percentage of users are.

There might be some positive press around "the numbers in Analytics do not reflect users on FF"
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Jonnax 2681 days ago
Nah. People making decisions don't care. Firefox usage will be reported as super low, and it won't be tested.
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aboutruby 2681 days ago
And users who report having issues with Firefox will be told to use Chrome (that is what's already happening)
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reitanqild 2681 days ago
And we will shout back : )

I'm already on it as might be seen here.

Feel free to complain loud and clear if it doesn't work in FF. Make it clear that FF support isn't optional.

Also on my to do list: complain even more, including to relevant authorities about Googles abuse of market position to push their browser. Feel free to join me here as well.

(And to be sure: feel free to complain when supposedly mainstream sites doesn't work in any major browser - safari, edge, FF and even Chrome : )

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folkrav 2681 days ago
We make noise, we will shout back, but even if the noise we're making eventually resolves to something positive, let's not kid ourselves, it will take _time_.

In the meantime, FF support (while, for now, relatively inexpensive/free if you just use web standards) will just continue being optional considering Chromium's quasi-monopoly.

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scriptkiddy 2681 days ago
This is why I use FF for development(and all other browsing). I get firefox support by default on all my work.
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reitanqild 2681 days ago
Same here : )

Only once have I experienced that something I'd actually write for production only worked in FF and not across all modern browsers.

Protip for anyone who reads this and thinks "but my employer doesn't care about Firefox':

I typically used FF also while testing other peoples work and if it didn't work in Firefox then 9 out of 10 times it didn't work in any other browser than Chrome (had some devs on my team who really didn't seem to care about cross browser compability but it would work in most browsers before it was approved :-))

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bunderbunder 2681 days ago
Not at all unlike back in the IE6 days. Back when the response from geekdom was a loud and resounding, "fuck that!"

Suckiness of the browser situation aside, I fear I'll soon be coming to miss those days.

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