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by heywire 1382 days ago
Got any concrete examples? I hear this a lot, but have never experienced it. I’ve been using Firefox as my primary desktop browser for years now. I can’t think of any website that didn’t function. But maybe I encountered one and just thought the site was down?
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bityard 1382 days ago
In my case: several financial institutions that I have accounts with and lots of enterprise apps and gear with web UIs either break silently, have certain functions that don't work, or block with an error telling you to use a supported browser. (If they're nice, they even tell you which ones are supported.)

For a while, Slack didn't support all features on Firefox despite the technology being there, I don't know if this is still the case.

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smarnach 1382 days ago
Please report this kind of bug on webcompat.com. It's often possible to get them fixed.
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bar8uyr 1382 days ago
Shopify admin is one (but also one that's better to just not use if you have that option)
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LeFantome 1378 days ago
More than once I have spent precious time filling out some form or going through some wizard only to find that I cannot “submit” or that validation is failing on some field or other in Firefox. Switching to a Chromium based browser works. I know it has happened to me at my bank. I cannot recall exactly where else. Reservation systems? A couple of travel approval sites I think ( during COVID ).
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dotancohen 1381 days ago
The Hebrew language Nespresso site pops up a browser dialogue "you have unsaved changes" every time one tries to browse to another page. The dev team is aware of it, but "the site only supports Google Chrome" so they don't fix it. https://www.nespresso.com/il/he/
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eitland 1382 days ago
The version of Unit 4 that we use at work only works in Chrome.

That said, lately, that particular thing has been the only one that I need to use that outright doesn't work.

I think a number of Google technologies are slower in Firefox on purpose, but I just avoid them and keep telling competition authorities about their abuse of power.

Sooner or later they will get caught.

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gitgud 1382 days ago
Godaddy complains with other browsers...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32093987

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heywire 1381 days ago
Reading that thread, it sounded like OPs issue was more with an extension blocking something than the browser, but I’ll admit, I do not use GoDaddy, so I haven’t experienced it first hand.
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