Is it worth supporting Firefox?

Re:Is it worth supporting Firefox? by chrisseaton on Monday May 07, 2018 @09:39AM (#17012588)

> Firefox is a standards-conforming web browser. If some nincompoop puts a web page out there and my browser can't render it, I'm not going back.

Well... yeah... that's the point of what they're doing.

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Re:Is it worth supporting Firefox? by sevensor on Monday May 07, 2018 @10:20AM (#17012940)

I don't think it is. I don't use ad blockers, but I also don't come back to websites where I've had a bad experience. If you do something hostile, like auto-play video, I'm gone and I'm not coming back. It makes for a fairly serene web browsing experience.

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Re:Is it worth supporting Firefox? by chrisseaton on Monday May 07, 2018 @10:40AM (#17013075)

It literally says

> Manager says that we should just discourage the users of Firefox (not optimizing for Firefox, and poor UI) from visiting our website as they bring a loss.

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Re:Is it worth supporting Firefox? by sevensor on Monday May 07, 2018 @11:29AM (#17013473)

Ah, right you are. That's what I get for skimming. I suppose this is the same strategy as using all caps in 419 emails. Savvy users are a waste of effort, better to chase them off early.

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Re:Is it worth supporting Firefox? by Sylos on Monday May 07, 2018 @03:15PM (#17015579)

How can they actively bring a loss, though?

Does the power and bandwidth needed to have the server serve Firefox users cost more than Firefox users bring in over all?

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