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Turns out that's not how standards work. If all browsers implement the standard and your product doesn't function properly on every single one of them, the problem is your product, even if it's just a single one.
That's exactly the issue: Firefox isn't implementing the same standards as other browsers.
firefox is implementing the standard. google, with something like fifteen times the devs and control of the WHATWG, modifies the standard so that their stuff is in there. in that situation it's impossible to do anything but play catch-up. and right now they're the only other browser that matters.
like, imagine if the same company sold 50% of all cars on the road as well as 70% of gas stations, then suddenly switched to a new proprietary nozzle that only works in their cars, leaving everyone else scrambling to try and design something compatible. would you say the remaining 30% of gas stations were doing it wrong?
If that was the case, pages would work in Firefox as they do in other browsers.
Whatever the reason or whoever you want to blame, the bottom line is that Firefox does not meet the standards of modern browsers, period. You can blame Google if you want, but it doesn't change the fact that Firefox doesn't do what is expected of it. For better or for worse. It's not a matter of "who is more evil?" because they're all evil (including Mozilla), it's a matter of "which of these products actually work?" And Firefox doesn't work.
And I say this as somebody who used to be a diehard Firefox supporter. The Mozilla Foundation was the first charitable donation I made when I first started working and earning money. I liked the promise they showed, but they've become just like the rest.
of course theyre both evil, but only one of them is using their monopoly-like position to gradually close the market so that no other browser engine can ever be compliant again.
out of curiosity, what do you encounter that doesn't work?