• @1984@lemmy.today
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      11 months ago

      I was about to say this. I never find any websites that doesnt work with Firefox so I’m genuinely curious.

      I bet it’s their ad blocker, or they have set their Firefox settings to the privacy level that says “this will break some web sites”.

    • @flying_gel@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      I use Firefox on Linux and FreeBSD for my daily driver.

      I was not able to book flights on Thai airways website 6 months ago until I loaded it in chrome/chromium instead.

      It’s really really rare imo but that’s one example in recent history.

      • snooggums
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        111 months ago

        That sounds more like an issue with them using some proprietary browser bullshit than a problem with Firefox.

        • @Skyhighatrist@lemmy.ca
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          711 months ago

          But what, practically, is the difference? If more and more websites use shit that only works in Chrome or Chromium based browsers, the effect is the same. The web doesn’t work as well for Firefox users.

          • snooggums
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            One is a browser following web standards and the other is a shitty company adding non-standards based development features intended to lock users into there browsers.

            It was shitty when Microsoft did the non-standard features to lock in with Internet Exporer and it is shitty that Chrome does it now.

          • pi3r8
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            111 months ago

            100% this. People loose the wood for the trees with these kinds of things. If something doesn’t work in one browser but does in another then 99% of people are not technical enough to understand or care why not. They just know it doesn’t work. That makes it a problem for Firefox. Whether it’s by their own making or not.

    • Alyxx
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      211 months ago

      I couldn’t submit a support ticket for id.me (the IRS’ stupid commercial partner for Identity verification) when using Firefox, the submit button literally did not work. Worked fine when switching to edge (blegh).

    • Jojo
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      111 months ago

      Not a very big website, but the service my therapist uses for teletherapy doesn’t support anything outside of chromium.

      • KptnAutismus
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        211 months ago

        try switching your user agent. it’ll likely work fine.

        red medical will act up if you don’t use a chromium browser.

      • @Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        011 months ago

        I don’t want you to post personal stuff but that’s still just “it doesn’t work” with no proof

        • Jojo
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          111 months ago

          Well, it’s a specific example, even if I didn’t give any way to test it. Better than just saying “some websites don’t work” since I’m actually indicating the particular one that doesn’t.

          I guess your two options are to trust that I’m acting in good faith when I say it or to assume I might not be and disregard the example. Either way doesn’t affect me much; I’ve already submitted tickets to the service asking for Firefox support, so with any luck it won’t even be an issue for too long.

    • @Nyanix@lemmy.ca
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      11 months ago

      Wow, that random news article I hit 16 days ago where the page kept flickering and reloading, but didn’t do that when I copied the URL into Brave… I really should’ve recorded that domain so I could defend myself against some stranger online!

      Sarcasm aside, I don’t think it’s generally the major websites that you bump into this with, however, there are many edge cases that occur for plenty of folks, whether they’re in college and have to use that “secure browser” extension that only supports Chrome, or the fact that some websites, especially in business, that simply refuse to support browser and will prevent access otherwise.

      I’m a Firefox user, so this isn’t to say that Chromium is the way by any means, but hopefully to shine a little light on the fact that we’re all on different parts of the web with different experiences, questioning their experiences so that you can hopefully find an extension or something to pin the blame them does not absolve them of their experience, just a show of elitism.

      Firefox HAS gotten much better, but unfortunately, Capitalism’s gonna Capitalism

      • @Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        Oh noooo a random shit news site doesn’t load good cuz they don’t do web design good

        Still no examples

        • @FiskFisk33@startrek.website
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          why are you being so abrasive?

          Of course web sites not working on firefox is an error on the web sites part, was that even in question?

          • @Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            Because I’ve seen this over and over again and it’s always the same. Nobody has replied with a single URL, just vague anecdotes.

    • @HeyJoe@lemmy.world
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      111 months ago

      I can think of 2 websites that didn’t work right over the past 10 Yeats. Both were credit card payment sites and just had weird issues like couldn’t hit the submit button. I figured it out and just used edge for them. I never found any site that I use often that has issues yet.

        • @HeyJoe@lemmy.world
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          211 months ago

          Samsung bill pay which is a tdbank site and joss and main furniture credit payment site… didn’t think I had to list them to be taken seriously. Plus I am for Firefox, it’s all I have used for 15 years now.

    • @umbrella@lemmy.ml
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      111 months ago

      It happens rarely to me, and when it does 99/100 its the adblocker blocking something it shouldnt.

    • Jojo
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      111 months ago

      Oh, and I can’t seem to get tiktok videos to play on Firefox on Android? Not a major issue, but my sister keeps sending them to me in particular for some reason, so…

      • @Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        011 months ago

        I’ve always had TikTok blocked so I maybe o idea about that

        Also a privacy browser not allowing the least private thing ever? Colour me shocked

        • Jojo
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          111 months ago

          I mean, yeah. I’m none too bothered by that one, but it’s still an example.

    • @Squizzy@lemmy.world
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      I just gave you an example of menus not expanding.

      I’m not dogging Firefox I’m saying there is a consorted effort made to reduce it’s usefulness.

    • @Matriks404@lemmy.world
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      Create any website with an element that is fixed on the bottom of the page and try to move the page in the mobile Firefox then.