Firefox on the brink? | BryceWray.com
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  • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
    10·
    1 year ago

    What gets me is when websites don’t work on Safari. Really? Like a significant portion of traffic is to iOS, it’s a single browser you have to target, on millions of devices. And you couldn’t even make it work there.

    Web dev today is a bunch of crap.

  • Kogasa@programming.dev
    5·
    1 year ago

    I am personally unaware of any serious reason to believe that Firefox’s numbers will improve soon.

    Either the author doesn’t know about the Manifest v2 deprecation or is saying it’s “unserious” to believe this might improve Firefox’s market share. Either way, goofy.

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      I hate to break it to you but Firefox is terrible in the UI/UX department. I wish Mozilla was better at actually being a good company and nonprofit but they seem to have fallen to the way side.

      With that being said, I will refuse to use anything other than librewolf. My government isn’t going to dictate what browser to use. I do a lot of paper anyway so its not a big deal.

      • caron@lemmy.zip
        0·
        1 year ago

        How is it terrible though? Argument it, because in my opinion, the UI is very similar across all browsers, and Firefox UX has always been better for me.

  • VegaLyrae@kbin.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    It shouldn’t matter as long as the sites are developed only with open standards.

    We already have webcompat for anything truly broken.

  • Max-P@lemmy.max-p.me
    2·
    1 year ago

    This shouldn’t be a big deal unless they go out of their way to use non-standard Chrome-only features.

    It’s not like the early 2000s where you absolutely had to test everything on every browser because they differed so much and everyone was adding random non-standard features. I haven’t ran into something that doesn’t work on Firefox in quite a long time, even when all the development happens on Chrome.

    Pretty much everything these days ends up through babel and automatic polyfills and browserlists. Unless they have a whole custom framework that somehow directly uses Chrome-specific APIs it’s unlikely Firefox will be left unusable. They have to deal with Safari regardless, and if Safari works, Firefox probably does. Safari is like the new IE these days in terms of bugs and missing standard features, and because you’re forced to use Safari on iOS, and iPhones are so popular, I seriously doubt they’d drop Safari either.

  • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I will refuse to use it unless it works in a all browsers. I can’t control other companies but I will not pay tax money to have a broken website.