gurjeet

Tell HN: Firefox is being slowly deprecated by the industry

I found 2 instances within the last 2 days. Are there other companies doing this?

Apple Business says: There’s an error; You’re either on an unsupported browser or viewing this site on a mobile device. Switch to a supported browser.

https://business.apple.com

https://business.apple.com/abm_unsupported_browser?reason=Browser%20Type

https://support.apple.com/guide/apple-business-manager/program-requirements-axm6d9dc7acf/web/

An Immigration Attorneys' company says: Unsupported Browser; Our platform is designed to work exclusively with Google Chrome and does not support other browsers at this time. Please set up /log into your Alma account through Chrome.

https://app.tryalma.com/sign_up

Mar 28 at 1:25amWeb
Show threadp_ing1d ago

This is nothing new for any browser, unless you believe in the mid-late 2000s Chrome was being "slowly deprecated by the industry" for sites that refused to work with Chrome.

These are just lazy developers, or developers who don't want to bother testing against FF. It happens. Move on. This is not some industry trend.

Show threadgurjeet23h ago
Oh, but AI has made the cost of development so low! It doesn't cost much to do cross-browser tests anymore. /s :-)
Show threadcestivan22h ago
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Show threadAnimats22h ago

The immigration attorney company works from Firefox at

https://www.tryalma.com/

or https://www.tryalma.ai

but not from https://app.tryalma.com

Nothing reachable from https://www.apple.com/ seems to fail on Firefox.

Alma Immigration – Reimagining Immigration with Technology

Alma offers best-in-class U.S. immigration legal services for individuals and businesses, specializing in O-1A, H-1B, L-1, EB-1A, and more.

Show threadpaxys22h ago
Spoof the user agent. I'd bet the vast majority of "only works on XYZ browser" websites will still work.
Show threadkarlshea22h ago

Not saying I like the situation, but Firefox usage is about ~2-3%.

That's about where IE 6 and then IE 11 were when everyone was excited they could finally drop them. Why should anyone treat Firefox differently?

Show thread_HMCB_22h ago
I get the unsupported warning even on iOS Safari.