5 comments

  • jamesfinlayson 10 hours ago
    Oh, I thought Chrome did have a similar list - maybe I got confused with WebKit. This very site has one quirk: https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/blob/25738effd8eeca9b8d15e4...
  • tracker1 13 hours ago
    I've seen similar issues simply by using Linux as my main desktop... some sites just won't work because of it, or seem to filter out "Linux" in the user agent. Which kinda sucks.
    • pmontra 12 hours ago
      Could you give an example? I've been working with a Linux desktop since 2009 and everything seems to work.
      • abrowne 8 hours ago
        Ditto. The only thing I can remember of is Apple Maps. They used to allow only Windows or something? But they relented eventually.
    • sli 12 hours ago
      This is one of the reasons why all of my browsers identify as a recent Chrome version. All of those problems just up and disappear. I started doing that when Google claimed (lied) that some of their products no longer support Firefox and would block me from accessing right up until my browser identified itself as Chrome. No bugs, no issues.
      • like_any_other 7 hours ago
        If market competition law wasn't reduced to dead ink, lying about your competitor's product, or abusing your dominance in one market to dominate another market, would at minimum carry painful fines.
        • piekvorst 1 hour ago
          I agree that lying should be illegal, but “domination” is vague. One could argue (and I would agree) that there’s nothing wrong with dominance if it comes down to just offering a superior product.

          And why should the cross-market context be treated differently?

  • pmontra 12 hours ago
    Web services could have at least one developer using Firefox and another one using Safari. I'm the one with Firefox for my customers. Their web apps work with at least Chrome and Firefox. Safari is on them, if they have a Mac. Nobody ever complained.
  • phillipseamore 17 hours ago
    If Safari and Firefox had the exact same lists of sites and fixes I might agree, but they don't.
  • robthebrew 18 hours ago
    Just ditch Chrome and then the website owners see shrinking traffic.
    • pseudohadamard 18 minutes ago
      This is the exact same situation that got Microsoft tied up in endless antitrust investigations 30 years ago. Of course that was back when the US still had a government rather than a service bureau for billionaires.
    • cybercatgurrl 10 hours ago
      and how, pray tell, might we convince the masses to do this?
      • AuthAuth 10 hours ago
        Mindcontrol, space lazers, weather machines, genetically engineer actual firefoxes. Just a few ideas worth considering.
        • halJordan 9 hours ago
          I'll have my ai agent get on this right away