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As an engineer, yes Firefox is a good solution

As a PM, we spent 4 months making the onboard easier, and now you want people to install a new browser?

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Having multiple browsers as a standard installation and employee training is an investment in business continuity.

And business continuity investment is like insurance: A waste until you need it.

Too much monoculture is short sighted and long term expensive.

Do you ship them extra computers too? Dual boot? There's gotta be a limit somewhere, and browser choice is a fair one.

For engineers, absolutely, two browsers because some are liable to hit (self or team induced) bugs. But for sales? Support? Nah.

I run into Firefox compatibility issues waaay more frequently than chrome compatibility issues, for obvious reasons. Even extremely obvious issues, like 2fa login not working on mobile Firefox, are surprisingly common to find, so I'd never install Firefox as a primary browser for non-techies nowadays. I use Firefox myself for ideological reasons, though.

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