Comment by Loughla
Comment by Loughla 8 days ago
What's wrong with Firefox? It's my daily browser and works great. What am I missing?
Comment by Loughla 8 days ago
What's wrong with Firefox? It's my daily browser and works great. What am I missing?
I use FF as well. I think the problem is lack of focus on core workflows. This is a problem with all major browsers.
For example, why is the address bar so tiny on high resolution screens? One would think this is an easy fix that would improve the UX for many people. Yet years go by with unresolved issues in the trackers.
> For example, why is the address bar so tiny on high resolution screens
Because in the year of our lord 2024, we for some reason still don't know how big a pixel is. Making a textbox 1cm tall should be trivial, but is for some reason either impossible or never done.
If management cared about the browser they would have never had this staff in the first place, a similar amount of staff for programming, testing, and marketing their browser would have been effective at making a better browser and getting more market share.
Now that few people use it, major sites are not just no longer testing on Firefox they are actively blocking it. Slack, for instance.
I went back and investigated: Huddles is blocked and I was using a user agent switcher to get around it. Then I had to switch back to Firefox agent string so Google Meet would work. Apparently my user agent switcher has out of date agent strings for Firefox so Slack started blocking me entirely.
So Slack was blocking me entirely because it thought I was using an out of date Firefox but using the default user agent string it works again.
The managemant behind firefox does not care about web browsers. They carre about their vision of social justice and the browser is just a tool to get funds for that.