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It is a shame that this only supports Chrome/Chromium. As I'm not willing to take the performance and privacy hits, I won't bother with this application until the necessary technical fixes are made. No matter how small of a group we are, Firefox/Safari users should be taken into consideration and could be the best advocates for your animation service.

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Ah... Reminds me of the heady days of IE6 supremacy when so many websites were IE6 only. Sucks that we're headed back to those days again.

And it does it in the worst way:

  if(navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Chrome") != -1 ){ } else { location.replace("https://bestsnip.com/browser_not_supported/");  };

Such user agent sniffing should be strenuously avoided. If there’s a particular feature you need, such as WebM with the VP9 codec, do feature detection instead:

  if (!document.createElement('video').canPlayType('video/webm;codecs="vp9"')) {
    location.replace("https://bestsnip.com/browser_not_supported/");
  }

(For reference, that canPlayType call returns "probably" for me on Firefox and Chrome, and would return an empty string in an environment that didn’t support WebM or the VP9 codec.)

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