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Re:Unable to deal with Chrome Extension Team, Kozmos is shut... by CathedralBorrow on Saturday May 23, 2020 @06:38PM (#23287212)
Are you including the change cost here, which will be many times higher for most of the population vs. HN? Even if I thought that Firefox was a better choice, I'd recommend to my friends and family to keep using whatever they are using unless they have to switch for some reason.
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Re:Unable to deal with Chrome Extension Team, Kozmos is shut... by chris_wot on Saturday May 23, 2020 @08:47PM (#23288079)
What, precisely, is the cost?
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Re:Unable to deal with Chrome Extension Team, Kozmos is shut... by Larrikin on Saturday May 23, 2020 @10:54PM (#23288707)
Lazy web devs that only test in Chrome and maybe safari that constantly break things in other browsers. I don't mind sending the angry support email and using chrome for a single task here and there but others might.
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Re:Unable to deal with Chrome Extension Team, Kozmos is shut... by adrianN on Sunday May 24, 2020 @04:06AM (#23290000)
I never used Chrome and never encountered a website that didn't work on Firefox. I think this concern is a bit overblown.
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Re:Unable to deal with Chrome Extension Team, Kozmos is shut... by Larrikin on Sunday May 24, 2020 @04:18PM (#23294361)
Bank of America didn't work for the better part of last year. Chase Rewards are currently broken since last week. Its easy to drop small sites that don't test but my experience has been they actually bother testing and it's the major sites that actually have problems.
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Re:Unable to deal with Chrome Extension Team, Kozmos is shut... by thejynxed on Sunday May 24, 2020 @05:37PM (#23295036)
I've had Firefox fail to work properly on the sites of Slashdot, Amazon, Newegg, Chase, BoA, GE, Walmart, the IRS, PennDOT, Mozilla's own org site, WaPo, NPR, Fox, Disney, and a whole host of others.
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Re:Unable to deal with Chrome Extension Team, Kozmos is shut... by CathedralBorrow on Sunday May 24, 2020 @05:30AM (#23290347)
Effort, time, unlearning workflows and re-learning them in Firefox, etc. Switching costs would probably have been a better term to use.
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