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I really want this to happen but I keep hitting sites that just don’t work in Firefox. I’m willing to maintain two browsers and switch for Mailchimp, craveTV and a few other places but most people are not.

As small company, I can target Chrome and Safari and cover the vast majority of my potential users. Adding QA and Dev for Firefox just gets harder and harder.

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>but I keep hitting sites that just don’t work in Firefox.

Sites that literally do not load in Firefox? Which ones? I'm genuinely curious here, since I've never hit such a site.

Seriously, besides the occasional webgl demo I haven't experienced this either.

The only site I had issues with is AWS DMS (Data Migration Service). I can't confirm it's still half-broken with Firefox as I don't use this service anymore.

But, to be fair, I also had the opposite issue with some other AWS services where it was working in Firefox but not on Chrome

This bug [1] in recent versions of Firefox broke websockets for some sites (I don't know how many, but it included [2]). It was a major bug in their implementation of TLS 1.3 in Firefox, but its symptoms were subtle. You could connect the first time, but reconnecting would then be completely broken until you restarted Firefox (due to some sort of caching). For years, the Firefox flex css layout implementation was unbelievably slow [3], which basically broke usability of some sites. For the web application I work on, we've had to contend with over 10 Firefox-specific bugs [4]. I think everything works fine today though.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1453204

[2] https://cocalc.com

[3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1209697

[4] https://github.com/sagemathinc/cocalc/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&...

I literally said don’t work, so I’m not sure why you’ve changed this to “literally do not load”. I also listed two that don’t work properly and I need to switch to chrome to use.

I use Firefox for almost every site and am I Firefox fan, but you can’t pretend it works flawlessly for ever one.

Two that come to mind: Microsoft's "Seller dashboard" for managing Office 365 extensions, and Google's "Cloud Platform" console for managing their services. Also, Apple's "iTunesConnect" is pretty glitchy unless you use Safari (and probably Chrome too). I guess you can see a clear reason why each of those pages behaves like so :).

Edit to add that I prefer Firefox in general for philosophical and practical reasons: I'm used to the dev tools and have a hard time navigating the Chrome/Safari alternatives, not to mention Edge/Explorer.

Which sites? I use Firefox as my primary browser and I've never had this happen.

I literally listed two sites in comment you are replying to.

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