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Re:Google breaks search for Firefox users because of bad UA ... by andyjohnson0 on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @07:02AM (#38925133)
It's never been clear to me that Google is actively trying to take-out Firefox. Firefox's user base is pretty small - so if they succeed in reducing it they'd gain very little but lose some shielding from antitrust accusations.

I suspect that these problems are more to do with neglecting testing, and just not caring very much about non-Chromium browsers

(Disclosure: I'm a long-time Firefox user)

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Re:Google breaks search for Firefox users because of bad UA ... by bayindirh on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @07:06AM (#38925173)
The thing about "high quality malice" is it's indistinguishable from an error.

A bug that breaks others' tools but not yours is not implemented intentionally, but it's not fixed intentionally, so it looks like a benign error.

At the end of the day, you use the chance you get, and it makes real damage while you sip your coffee...

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Re:Google breaks search for Firefox users because of bad UA ... by MCUmaster on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @07:05AM (#38925160)
It’s pretty clear to others. Chrome is supposed to be The Web in the same way that Google is search.
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Re:Google breaks search for Firefox users because of bad UA ... by ranting-moth on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @07:06AM (#38925166)
Antitrust is just money to pay for Google. Firefox is cancer to Google.
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Re:Google breaks search for Firefox users because of bad UA ... by generic92034 on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @07:11AM (#38925224)
I do not know it that is true. Cancer tends to grow... ;)
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Re:Google breaks search for Firefox users because of bad UA ... by pi-e-sigma on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @09:58AM (#38926902)
well played, well played :)
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