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Re:Mozilla tests if 'Firefox/100.0' user agent breaks websites by chrisseaton on Friday August 13, 2021 @05:13PM (#28174602)
> You are Mozilla, send them a mail and give them a week to fix it, because you are f'ing Mozilla.

Mozilla has a user-base of like 3%.

They don't have any clout at all. They should be grovelling to and thanking any website that bothers to support them, not trying to give ultimatums.

> don't hotpatch it but send it to the vendor and tell them to merge it or else...

But this is a user-hostile approach. No thanks.

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Re:Mozilla tests if 'Firefox/100.0' user agent breaks websites by diegoperini on Friday August 13, 2021 @05:42PM (#28174917)
User-base has no importance, dev-base is what matters here. If Mozilla sends a letter to developers, chances are those people already stumbled upon MDN multiple times when they looked for answers to web development related questions.
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Re:Mozilla tests if 'Firefox/100.0' user agent breaks websites by chrisseaton on Friday August 13, 2021 @05:43PM (#28174932)
Why would developers care about a browser that their users don't use?
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Re:Mozilla tests if 'Firefox/100.0' user agent breaks websites by jmcs on Saturday August 14, 2021 @03:21PM (#28183249)
Can you imagine if retail stores where made in a way that 3% of customers couldn't use them?
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Re:Mozilla tests if 'Firefox/100.0' user agent breaks websites by chrisseaton on Saturday August 14, 2021 @05:04PM (#28183934)
If there's no law saying they have to support those 3% of customers, and supporting the 3% costs more than the 3% bring in, then yeah they won't bother.
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Re:Mozilla tests if 'Firefox/100.0' user agent breaks websites by diegoperini on Saturday August 14, 2021 @06:14PM (#28184378)
Because if "Firefox/100.0" reveals a bug, the bug may also trigger when other browsers introduce a similar change.
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Re:Mozilla tests if 'Firefox/100.0' user agent breaks websites by kelnos on Friday August 13, 2021 @05:50PM (#28175005)
All the web developers I know use and test on Chrome. If they test on Firefox, it's as an afterthought.
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Re:Mozilla tests if 'Firefox/100.0' user agent breaks websites by edoceo on Friday August 13, 2021 @06:42PM (#28175696)
Hello! Know you know one who builds and tests on FF.
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Re:Mozilla tests if 'Firefox/100.0' user agent breaks websites by moltar on Friday August 13, 2021 @08:14PM (#28176459)
I use FF as a daily driver.
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Re:Mozilla tests if 'Firefox/100.0' user agent breaks websites by h0l0cube on Friday August 13, 2021 @09:19PM (#28176874)
I also use it for developing and use its developer tools. If it works on Firefox, there's maybe a few CSS tweaks I need to make when I test on other browsers
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