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Re:Google breaks search for Firefox users because of bad UA ... by yunohn on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @06:59AM (#38925106)
Google isn’t sitting around randomly breaking things for Firefox users in this obvious way.

I really feel like HNers often forget how minuscule the scale of their usage patterns are.

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Re:Google breaks search for Firefox users because of bad UA ... by alpaca128 on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @07:49AM (#38925548)
Google doesn't need to intentionally break things, they just have to not test on anything but Chrome and say "oops" once a critical mass of complaints come in. Now you could say that they don't have to support the competitor, which is fair, but the web is based on standards, and in this case the site breaks based on the user agent and not the lack of some technical capability.
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Re:Google breaks search for Firefox users because of bad UA ... by yard2010 on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @08:08AM (#38925734)
How convenient!
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