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"It kinda works" is factually incorrect.

I have used Firefox exclusively every day on macOS for the past year, several hours a day, and have not one single time had to open another browser. None of the customers of my B2B saas use Firefox. Not once have I needed to test in their browsers except quick smoke testing to prove to myself that the rendering and details are identical. All my other browsing is indistinguishable from before when I used Chrome, and from on mobile where I (tragically) am forced by Apple's monopoly to use Safari.

Do you have evidence to support your false claim?

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Agreed, I can't understand where these experiences come from.

I only ever use Firefox, at work, at home, mobile. Since forever, as long as there has been a Firefox (and Mozilla before that, Netscape prior).

There was one time about 8-10 years ago that I encountered a site that didn't work in Firefox, was some weird proprietary training module at work.

So yes, I did encounter one site that didn't work in Firefox in the last ~20 years. One.

I genuinely wouldn't be surprised if it was Google astroturfing every single thread relating to FF. Yes, Mozilla isn't perfect and had some questionable decisions, but we're somehow okay with the worse option out of the two? Somehow, Mozilla's decisions are enough to never use FF, but Google's infinitely many horrible ones are acceptable for.... What reason?

> Somehow, Mozilla's decisions are enough to never use FF, but Google's infinitely many horrible ones are acceptable for.... What reason?

I think these people are real and predate AI. I think it comes down to a fundamental psychology in how the two browsers are marketed online. Firefox users would say "Firefox is better than Chrome." Chrome users would say "Chrome is good." Firefox is touted as a better browser on the principle of the freedom it gives its users, and paradoxically, that draws heavy scrutiny.

I don't think I am doing a Goomba fallacy here. People that claim to care about privacy and browser freedom will express disgust with Mozilla then, in the same breath, say they are opting into Chrome out of spite, which is 100x worse.

> say they are opting into Chrome out of spite, which is 100x worse.

That is what is frustrating, indeed.

Firefox is not perfect. Nothing is perfect. There have been changes in Firefox over the years that I don't like. (I'm still hurting from it moving the tabs to the top, so annoying.)

In a scale of 1 (100% user-hostile) to 10 (absolutely perfect user-centered browser), Firefox only scores a, let's say, eight.

But chrome scores a solid 2, so obviously I'm not going to use it, ever, no matter if Firefox makes the occasional mis-step.

I concur that it is strange seeing the FF/Mozilla vs chrome arguments. Its almost as if some large percentage of users here relied on web ads for their income.

Weird!

I would imagine a very small number of people on here rely on ads for income, but I could be wrong. That's just not the shape of company most devs work for.

> I would imagine a very small number of people on here rely on ads for income, but I could be wrong. That's just not the shape of company most devs work for.

Who do you think most developers work for?

Google, Facebook, two massive developer employers which are advertising companies.

There is a reason the quote “The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads" is famous.

Because so many developers are doing nothing but that, pushing advertising.

Just take a look at some other people kinda trying to refute me but confirming my point that there’s an increasingly frustrating wave of websites and features that simply refuse to work on Firefox (or Firefox+Linux).

I know when you’re balls deep in your own little box it’s hard to see the cracks in the foundation. But they’re very much there.

> Just take a look at

> some other people

"Look around, it's everywhere" isn't evidence, it's misdirection.

I will not be made to go find evidence of your false claim. That's on you.

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