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Alienated a lot of users with no Firefox compatibility.

Second that. You might also want to change your wording on that message. I don't even know what your website does and it's already calling me 'not cool enough'? Sorry, that's an instant negative impact and I'd never return to your site. If you really want people to visit using a different browser, you should at the very least request them to do so politely.

Yeah agree, just quickly drafted that message with no exterior feedback. Changing that. Thanks! :)

What do you need that Firefox can't do? I get the same message in Opera.

Nothing big, it's just a few css glitches I'm fixing

Then you should have delayed, vs. alienating a huge section of the market (at least half, if you count FireFox, Opera, and IE9/10 together).

It would be one thing (and a lot easier to explain/understand) if it was because it's core functionality was based on a feature only implemented in Chrome - quite another if it is because the project simply is not finished.

Yup agree. That's a side project so I took an extreme lean approach. But I'll definitely work on IE over the next days.

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