If a site I have to use doesn’t work for no apparent reason, I e-mail the company’s Support. Let them sort it out, or provide another way I can do what I’m trying to do. Personally, I think a lot of the problems are from more and more websites integrating privacy-invading “features”, and FF interfering with their operation.
Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not
Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Sadly I am running into more and more things that don’t work on firefox. Stuff like medical record portals, financial websites for my companies retirement plan. Stuff I have little choice about. And most fail silently. They don’t say it is the browser. I don’t know how they are doing it, but google is winning the fight.
swelter_spark@reddthat.com 1 week ago
Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I talked to tech support once, they said it won’t get fixed, and there was no workaround. It was a platform type site. So I’m not their direct custom. A small business is. And the people at the small business have never heard of firefox. So they don’t even understand the problem.
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Yeah supposed either doesn’t know or care. They just say, weird the website doesn’t work with your device. Do you have another computer?
TheDarksteel94@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
As someone who’s worked in IT, in corporate and not so corporate companies, it’s often not that the support techs don’t care. It’s that management doesn’t. In most companies, I was explicitly told to not care about certain things. If I cared too much and spent too much time on one single problem, to fix it for good, I was told off. As long as users could work in some way, it didn’t matter. Even if that included ineffective or costly workarounds. That kind of thinking has and will always rub me the wrong way.
NoodlePoint@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Stuff like medical record portals, financial websites for my companies retirement plan. Stuff I have little choice about. And most fail silently.
I recall how South Korea literally painted itself into a corner for becoming too dependent on Internet Explorer after years of using it with a security implementation based entirely on ActiveX.
I’m currently using a user-agent switcher plugin. Allows me to spoof servers into believing I’m running a different browser.
Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I tried the spoofer on a few, and they still failed. I thought it was supposed to be all chromium under the hood, but somehow it’s different. And companies don’t test firefox, nor care.
underline960@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
When I asked a couple of developers who work on websites/webapps with a lot of moving parts, they said it was easiest to just test for chrome, since that’s what most people use.
It’s turned into a self-fulfilling prophecy.
MinusPi@pawb.social 1 week ago
It’s so damn stupid. If your site works meaningfully differently in Firefox vs Chromium, you’re already doing something very, very wrong.
sheogorath@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Yep, this is why at least for me when I develop websites I use Firefox first for development to make sure that the website runs on Firefox.
buddascrayon@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Chromium does a lot of heavy lifting to fix problems with websites which enables certain web developers to be lazy.
pycorax@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Smae thing that Nvidia does with OpenGL. Their driver handles a lot erroneous out of spec behaviour so developers think their game works fine but the moment you run it on AMD or Intel GPUs, you get all sorts of issues because they actually implement the spec accurately.
okmko@lemmy.world 1 week ago
This is like telling people to “buy low and sell high” as trading advice. It’s obvious what to do but the difficulty lies in how to do it.
M0oP0o@mander.xyz 1 week ago
The how is testing on one other browser.
okmko@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It’s ironic that I use Firefox personally but unfortunately we mostly did too when I did more front end work. Firefox would often render views differently compared to Chrome (Safari was also a shetshow) but we had to prioritize work ofc.
The thing is, as a pure guess, I would bet that it’s Chrome that’s not adhering to the web standards.
Stabbitha@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I switched from Chrome to Firefox at work recently once they added tab groups. A few parts of one of the web apps my team maintains straight up don’t work. I mentioned it in a meeting, received a full 10 seconds of silence before someone said “Well customers aren’t complaining…”
Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Yeah, I’m not a dev, but I work with dev teams. They all don’t test with firefox anymore. Not enough ROI according to the product managers.