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I gave Firefox an honest go, but some web apps just don't work 100% in it. Chrome does not have this issue.

Most of us drive cars filled with fuel from evil oil companies, why do we all drive cars?

That compatibility with different browsers is a big enough issue in 2019 to stop you from using Firefox is just a sad reminder of how far we’ve fallen. Used to be that we actually cared about stuff being usable across browsers, after what we experienced during IE’s dominance.

It’s also a testament to Chrome’s dominance -now-.

>I gave Firefox an honest go, but some web apps just don't work 100% in it. Chrome does not have this issue.

Used to be the same problem with Firefox vs IE6. And that was exactly when people got serious about the need to defeat the monopoly of IE.

Is the stuff not working in Firefox due to lazy devs too young to remember IE6?

It's partly that, but it's also partly that the pace at which new standards of useful things get implemented (pre-ratification and post ratification) entails patchy support plus differing implementation decisions from under-specified standards. My favorite example area right now is all the fun that is CSP. Firefox supports the SecurityPolicyViolation Event, which is useful so that you can let non-power users know about CSP issues without having to open the console, except it's gated by a setting in about:config that is off by default. Additionally for CSP's report-uri endpoint, Firefox won't send up any cookies with a request to that endpoint (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1506992) which sucks if the endpoint relied on authentication that way. Chrome just works, meanwhile, on both of these issues. (Of course personally, if something doesn't work in Firefox, then I just don't use that something, or if I really need to (e.g. test business feature), I use chromium for just that one thing.)

Because for most people there is no reasonable alternative to cars.

Chrome does have reasonable alternatives.

> why do we all drive cars?

...we don't?

>90% of us do, or at least that's what I'd reasonably guess.

Which apps don't work in Firefox? I've never encountered one.

I noticed Google Voice was broken in Firefox yesterday. (Shocking, I know.)

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