• Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    Sadly I am running into more and more things that don’t work on firefox. Stuff like medical record portals, financial websites for my companies retirement plan. Stuff I have little choice about. And most fail silently. They don’t say it is the browser. I don’t know how they are doing it, but google is winning the fight.

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      48 minutes ago

      Stuff like medical record portals, financial websites for my companies retirement plan. Stuff I have little choice about. And most fail silently.

      I recall how South Korea literally painted itself into a corner for becoming too dependent on Internet Explorer after years of using it with a security implementation based entirely on ActiveX.

      I’m currently using a user-agent switcher plugin. Allows me to spoof servers into believing I’m running a different browser.

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        20 minutes ago

        I tried the spoofer on a few, and they still failed. I thought it was supposed to be all chromium under the hood, but somehow it’s different. And companies don’t test firefox, nor care.

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      9 hours ago

      If a site I have to use doesn’t work for no apparent reason, I e-mail the company’s Support. Let them sort it out, or provide another way I can do what I’m trying to do. Personally, I think a lot of the problems are from more and more websites integrating privacy-invading “features”, and FF interfering with their operation.

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        I talked to tech support once, they said it won’t get fixed, and there was no workaround. It was a platform type site. So I’m not their direct custom. A small business is. And the people at the small business have never heard of firefox. So they don’t even understand the problem.

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      11 hours ago

      When I asked a couple of developers who work on websites/webapps with a lot of moving parts, they said it was easiest to just test for chrome, since that’s what most people use.

      It’s turned into a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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        12 minutes ago

        Yeah, I’m not a dev, but I work with dev teams. They all don’t test with firefox anymore. Not enough ROI according to the product managers.

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        11 hours ago

        It’s so damn stupid. If your site works meaningfully differently in Firefox vs Chromium, you’re already doing something very, very wrong.

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          10 hours ago

          Yep, this is why at least for me when I develop websites I use Firefox first for development to make sure that the website runs on Firefox.

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          Chromium does a lot of heavy lifting to fix problems with websites which enables certain web developers to be lazy.

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            Smae thing that Nvidia does with OpenGL. Their driver handles a lot erroneous out of spec behaviour so developers think their game works fine but the moment you run it on AMD or Intel GPUs, you get all sorts of issues because they actually implement the spec accurately.

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          10 hours ago

          This is like telling people that they are doing something wrong when they don’t “buy low and sell high” when they’re trading. Obviously. Issues with browser parity are born from a difficulty of the how and the when, not the what.

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        It’s ironic that I use Firefox personally but unfortunately we prioritized Chrome when I did more front end work too. Firefox would often render views differently compared to Chrome (Safari was also a shetshow) and we had to prioritize work ofc, especially for legacy stuff.

        The thing is, as a pure guess, I would bet that it’s Chrome that’s not adhering to the web standards.