Google breaks search for Firefox users because of bad UA string sniffing

Re:Google breaks search for Firefox users because of bad UA ... by junon on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @08:41PM (#38935069)

I think you've missed the point. Google's primary web search feature could, in theory, be implemented without a line of JavaScript. That's how it was years and years ago anyway.

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Re:Google breaks search for Firefox users because of bad UA ... by zugi on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @09:15PM (#38935315)

I use Firefox with the NoScript addon and google.com still works just fine.

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Re:Google breaks search for Firefox users because of bad UA ... by sangnoir on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @02:40PM (#38942210)

I did not miss the point, I gave an answer based on the ground-truth rather than theory.

> Google's primary web search feature could, in theory, be implemented without a line of JavaScript

...and yet, in practice, Google defaults to a JavaScript-heavy implementation. Search is Google's raison d'être and primary revenue driver, I posit it therefore is optimized up the wazoo. I wouldn't hastily assume incompence given those priors.

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