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Re:Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox by lol768 on Saturday May 28, 2022 @11:56AM (#31541318)
> HomeDepot.com often won't let me add things to cart. The past couple months it has been working again, but there were a few months where I couldn't.

I checked for webcompat issues matching this description and couldn't find anyone reporting that adding items to the cart didn't work.

I attempted to reproduce the issue myself, but HomeDepot block visitors from my location.

> This morning, I couldn't buy a key off cdkeys.com - tried two totally different methods, email addresses, credit cards. Didn't try a second browser yet but I'm not sure I am that persistent...

Can't reproduce, I was able to buy a CD Key ("Garfield Kart - Furious Racing PC") at 28 May 2022, 16:51:52 BST using Firefox 100.0.2 and a debit card.

> A news site, I think the New Yorker, would only show the first two paragraphs of an article but in other browsers, would show the full article.

Can't reproduce. Visiting https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-baby-formul... in Firefox shows me the exact same content as when I use Chromium.

I'm not saying you've not experienced these issues, but they're definitely not widespread and your post doesn't give enough information to go on to diagnose if there's an issue with Firefox or not.

The best thing you can do is report issues to the webcompat project as and when you come across compatibility issues. It takes about 20 seconds, less time than you probably spent writing this comment.

Re:Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox by IshKebab on Saturday May 28, 2022 @05:12PM (#31543911)
> I'm not saying you've not experienced these issues

It really sounds like you are. I hate these "Well did you report it? I can't reproduce it. Did you rebuild in debug mode and check the logs? Did you learn C++ and fix it?" responses.

It's open source victim blaming.

Re:Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox by lol768 on Monday June 06, 2022 @04:19AM (#31638285)
> It really sounds like you are.

Which is obviously why I explicitly said I wasn't!

> I hate these "Well did you report it? I can't reproduce it."

How do you expect progress to be made if we can't precisely discuss browser issues & how to reproduce them in a way that enables them to be investigated and fixed?

For all we know at the minute, the OP has an extension installed that's causing all this.

> "Did you rebuild in debug mode and check the logs? Did you learn C++ and fix it?"

Because that's totally what I asked :eyeroll:

Re:Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox by neogodless on Monday May 30, 2022 @05:41PM (#31563936)
Appreciate the effort, but you're wrong.

Just to be sure I went back again today. Still could not purchase Horizon Zero Dawn. The error in the console was "No recaptcha clients exist."

I then went to Edge, and I able able to successfully make the purchase.

I'm a Firefox user. I'm a fan. But to pretend that there aren't sites that test in Chromium and call it a day isn't reality.

Re:Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox by lol768 on Monday June 06, 2022 @04:17AM (#31638276)
> Appreciate the effort, but you're wrong.

I mean, I have the game code right in front of me, ready to redeem.

> Just to be sure I went back again today. Still could not purchase Horizon Zero Dawn. The error in the console was "No recaptcha clients exist."

Still can't reproduce with this item - have you tried it in a fresh profile?

Re:Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox by CJefferson on Saturday May 28, 2022 @01:52PM (#31542306)
What is the "webcompat project"? I just tried googling for it and there were some articles about it, but no page I could submit.

I can say I recently found I couldn't make a new account at 'wise.com' in firefox (had to switch to chrome), and an internal university website doesn't work in Firefox -- but of course, I can't share that page publicly, so there's not a lot useful I can do with that.

Re:Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox by lol768 on Saturday May 28, 2022 @04:58PM (#31543791)
https://webcompat.com/

> but no page I could submit

Click the large "Report bug" button and you'll get to https://webcompat.com/issues/new