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Good for you. I've been in tech for over 16 years and FF absolutely does not work well on ~25% of websites.
Been in tech longer then that (if for some reason we are doing that now) and I will officially call bullshit on that claim.
Cool. I still champion FF every chance I get, but the experience is not seamless.
I'm glad your experience has been smooth.
Waterfox is just a fork of FF. We are pushing the same browser, more or less.
I love Waterfox!
Wait, really? The access cripplers are crazily powerful add-ons for the paranoid, like NoScript, not the browser itself. Like what example websites, specifically?
Bare MVP is ublock+ stock FF. Even allowing 3rd party cookies and...
Y'all can burn me at the stake all you want, I don't fucking care. I use FF daily and champion it, but to say it works 100% all the time for every site is just disingenuous.
I have opened all pages on 1st page of google with a "portland news" prompt. All of them opened. Care to give some examples for testing?
which one?
Your-work-related sites and payment sites obviously are out of reach for me to test. But these two claims would be easy to prove, right?
Hmm, but what were/are your add-ons? Are you saying none of these worked correctly even when accessing immediately after installing fresh?
Just wanna say I've had similar experiences. I don't think I'd put the number as high as 25% for myself, but my workplace's internal sites and some local/utility sites are also broken on non-Chromium browsers.
Wanna link those websites so we can see?
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/26486446
Do your own research, I am not your slave.
The person who makes the claims is the one who gives evidence.
I get it that tech people stumble upon these sites much more often than non-techies. My point was that if your parents are having website issues every other day (which implies they are not tech-savvy), then why would they even visit sites that are not FF-compatible. How many sites out of all the web do you think are not compatible with FF? Give an example of a normie site that wont work well with FF.
On the other hand, if your parents are tech-savvy then why would they ask you why a website wont load properly? Do you get it that your statement counters itself?
I have not been able to get proper payment processing to work with Portland area PGE in FF, ever. Across Windows, Linux, or Android (can't speak for MacOS or iOS).