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Is there a reason why? Less funding? Web devs don't make the pages Firefox friendly? Since the user base is smaller, they just don't care?

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[โ€“] NateNate60@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

If you're developing software for one client who only uses a specific browser, I can see this being okay, but several times I have chosen not to buy things from websites that were broken in Firefox. I don't bother to check whether they'd work in Chromium, I just buy it elsewhere.

The number of people who act like me probably isn't large in absolute terms, but how many customers have been lost because of a broken website that you didn't even know about because they just left without a trace?

This might not apply to you, but it's some food for thought whenever Web developers decide to be sloppy and not check compatibility for a browser that still has significant market share.

[โ€“] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Same. I'm not bothering with broken web sites.

I'm not in the US though, so I don't get many of them.

[โ€“] NoiseColor@startrek.website -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The number of people who act like that is negligible. We tested for that.

We don't see it as that we are sloppy but that Firefox is not a good browser. We came to that conclusion because no other browser acts like that.

[โ€“] SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Don't you think that it may be because Firefox is pretty much the only browser using a different engine that Chromium? There are literally two major browser engines, and you're developing for one them. Ofc everything else will act like Chromium, because they are Chromium for the most part.