{"id":41265,"date":"2023-11-29T16:25:23","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T21:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=41265"},"modified":"2023-11-29T16:25:23","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T21:25:23","slug":"most-compatible-with-google-chrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/29\/most-compatible-with-google-chrome\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Compatible With Google Chrome"},"content":{"rendered":"

Catalin Cimpanu<\/a> (2019, via Hacker<\/a> News<\/a>):<\/p>\n

A former high-ranking Mozilla executive has accused Google of intentionally and systematically sabotaging Firefox over the past decade in order to boost Chrome’s adoption.<\/p>

He is not the first Firefox team member to come forward and make such accusations in the past eight months; however, his allegations span far beyond current events and accuse Google of carrying out a coordinated plan that involved introducing small bugs on its sites that would only manifest for Firefox users.<\/p>

[…]<\/p>

“Google Chrome ads started appearing next to Firefox search terms. Gmail & [Google] Docs started to experience selective performance issues and bugs on Firefox. Demo sites would falsely block Firefox as ‘incompatible’,” he said.<\/p>

[…]<\/p>

“Over and over. Oops. Another accident. We’ll fix it soon. We want the same things. We’re on the same team. There were dozens of oopses. Hundreds maybe?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It could be nefarious or could simply be that they all use Chrome internally and don’t do very much testing.<\/p>\n\n

mtVessel<\/a>:<\/p>\n

There was a period of time when sites pretty much worked everywhere. In the last five years or so, the number of sites that only work in Chrome was risen precipitously. It’s either malice or incompetence, and I have no trouble believing either.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

I continue to find less of the Web working with Safari, but so far I’ve always been able to fall back on Firefox.<\/p>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n