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Comment by elliotpage | Hacker News Reader

This looks great, and I especially like the upfront and honest "Support" section.

As someone who is trying to move my information under my own control at present (Rather than using and paying for multiple cloud systems) I understand the driving force behind the project and will be giving it a shot!

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> Browsers Support. Chrome. I mean for real. Just Chrome. I know about bug with copying password in Firefox for example. But I just do everything in Chrome so I'm not really planning to check that on other browsers.

I thought we'd left the "It works in IE" mentality behind us? Apparently not, it seems.

So, considering I use almost all browsers except chrome, this project is a non starter for me.

"Works in Chrome" is definitely becoming the new "Works in IE" unfortunately. If you check the /r/firefox subreddit, there's usually a post crying about how a site only works in Chrome which is frustrating. [0]

[0]https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/c3tq22/whats_with_...

Yeah there's definitely sites that flat out don't work in Firefox for no good reason. If you're intentionally breaking your site in this day and age I probably don't want to actually visit your site. Oddly enough I've jumped back to IE a few times to get some banking sites working.

If you read the section above it he says "I cannot guarantee support. I've got a job, personal things etc, I'm just sharing my code/my application as MIT. However feel totally free to ask about something, write issues etc. As mentioned I'm using and I will use this application from now on daily so there might be some changes even good for me." This is just someone dumping out something they have been working on for themselves, which is how open source starts. So if you want to use it but are bothered by it not working in your browser of choice go submit a PR.

The point is that I'm a single person working on this and I do use chrome on my own in 95% cases. It would be just time consumption for me to test it on every single browser - for now i need working product for myself - if someone would like to fix other browser based bugs - feel free. I really dont have time for that.

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