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Comment by legofan94 | Hacker News Reader

Firefox is a known issue, we're working on that :x

Uhm... was it a known issue when you released it or you didn't even try it on Firefox before release? :(

I still use FF, for now anyway, so I’m not trying to be a dick here, but we’re talking less than 4% market share, so it’s hard to fault a small team for prioritizing the 82% they get with Chrome+Safari

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:StatCounter-browser-ww-mo...

I quite often wonder about those stats... I mean - most of Firefox users are quire conscious about privacy/tracking so most likely they have it blocked which... would "disappear" them from the stats? Chrome/Safari users mostly don't give a darn (and blocking is getting more difficult) so they would usually balloon the stats? Not to mention sites usually working just fine in Firefox but doing dumb detection hence users often hiding UserAgent?

Yes Firefox user here. I hide my useragent too because of stupid sites like Microsoft 365 that disable a lot of functionality for Firefox but everything works totally fine if they think I'm using edge. The same skulduggery that Google used on Gmail to make chrome big.

Side note, Safari ad-blocking is in a perfectly fine state and I haven't seen an ad online in years.

Last time I tried using Safari (~2 years ago) I was mildly annoyed seeing ads and Safari "constantly" removing uBlockOrigin so meh...

Cool.

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