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Re:New Skype for Web is live for Edge and Chrome browsers by ktjfi on Friday March 08, 2019 @08:05AM (#19337139)
Not supporting Safari is weird, but not supporting Firefox is perfectly normal, given that it's at a whopping 4.46% of market share in the US.
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Re:New Skype for Web is live for Edge and Chrome browsers by worble on Friday March 08, 2019 @08:14AM (#19337192)
"Not supporting" and "Deliberately blocking user agents" are two completely different things though.
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Re:New Skype for Web is live for Edge and Chrome browsers by ktjfi on Friday March 08, 2019 @08:38AM (#19337352)
They simply don't want to read any bug reports from Firefox users because they don't want to support that browser.
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Re:New Skype for Web is live for Edge and Chrome browsers by Piskvorrr on Friday March 08, 2019 @09:31AM (#19337739)
That is the most likely explanation. "It killed our precioussss IE, we hates it, we hates it!"
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Re:New Skype for Web is live for Edge and Chrome browsers by jamienicol on Friday March 08, 2019 @08:14AM (#19337193)
Firefox's market share is presumably comparable to safari on desktop, and edge which is supported.
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Re:New Skype for Web is live for Edge and Chrome browsers by birger on Friday March 08, 2019 @08:15AM (#19337200)
For desktop, where one would use this, it is 8%
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Re:New Skype for Web is live for Edge and Chrome browsers by Piskvorrr on Friday March 08, 2019 @09:29AM (#19337725)
Whereas Edge has...oh wait. Yet there it is - supported.
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Re:New Skype for Web is live for Edge and Chrome browsers by josteink on Friday March 08, 2019 @10:03AM (#19338049)
It’s even weirder than that: it’s discontinued and supported.
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Re:New Skype for Web is live for Edge and Chrome browsers by skinnymuch on Friday March 08, 2019 @09:22AM (#19337664)
I can’t find any source saying Firefox market share is below 8% in the US on desktop. Can you cite your stat.
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Re:New Skype for Web is live for Edge and Chrome browsers by SyneRyder on Friday March 08, 2019 @06:31PM (#19343283)
StatCounter has Firefox at 7.63% in North America on Desktop. That puts it just behind Edge in usage too.

http://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/north...

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Re:New Skype for Web is live for Edge and Chrome browsers by skinnymuch on Saturday March 09, 2019 @07:45PM (#19349512)
Specify just US as the thread is about that and it is back to 8%. Still behind Edge. Which isn’t surprising. http://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/unite...

It wouldn be interesting to see an evening, past work hours, US/Canada browser split. I would assume IE would tank vs being in 2nd. Edge would probably go down too though not as much.

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