Ask HN: Has DigiKey dropped support for Firefox?

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Recently, I get a lot of problems when trying to buy things from DigiKey using Firefox. Searching through orders is impossible, shopping carts being partially clipped from view, etc., generally stuff that is very annoying to work around. I already noticed some obvious broken functionality over a year ago, but now it seems to have gotten much worse.

Has DigiKey dropped support for Firefox?

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I’ve noticed more and more issues with sites on Firefox. Tried to buy some stuff on IKEA and the shopping cart just didn’t work on FF (tried Incognito too) but worked fine on Chrome/Safari.

I’m not too familiar with the differences between the browsers implementations of web standards, but I really have to wonder about how well many standard are implemented if sites not using cutting edge standards and APIs don’t work in certain browsers. I can live if I can’t use WebUSB or WebSerial or something outside Chrime, but what on earth are these sites using so that just standard UI functions like shopping carts can’t work across browsers?

On the other hand, I have noticed a few times where certain browser vendors cough Google cough will seemingly purposely ruin the UX of some of their sites if you aren’t using their browser.

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