My kids’ teachers use a website that doesn’t support FF forcing them to use chrome. I’ll disable adblocking to confirm it’s not caused by a plugin. I doubt the government takes it’s own accessibility issues seriously when it comes to supporting (and even not blocking) alternative browsers and operating systems.Īside from being blocked, I find incompatibilities are usually caused by javascript errors that go away in supported browsers. I feel it goes against the spirit of their own user accessibility guidelines and I reported them to themselves for it, but we’ll see if anything changes next year…I’m guessing probably not. One particularly infuriating case is the IRS’s bill payment website at login says “access denied” if you don’t use a pre-approved browser and operating system due to user agent blocking. However I am also seeing more websites crop up where I’m forced to use something else. I use Firefox on both mobile and desktop since it exists and I sincerely don’t understand why people still prefer chrome these are my reasons: Where and why? Web standards exists for this, and this behavior shouldn’t happen. I’ve been starting to see websites that simply do not work in Firefox, which has me deeply worried about just how long I can keep up using my browser of choice. Safari is tied to Apple so far too limiting, but at least it’s not Chromium-based, so that’s a plus. We need more than one browser engine to succeed, and Firefox is the only viable alternative to Chrome’s dominance. What’s also funny is that Chrome and Safari control about 85% of the browser market share today, and Microsoft’s Edge commands only about 4%.įirefox all the way for me. Funny enough even Edge is built on top of Chromium today, despite the bitter rivalry between Google and Microsoft. Unfortunately our choices are significantly fewer than they seem to be at first glance, as Chrome and Safari (thanks to the iPhone) totally dominate the browser landscape in terms of usage and almost all browsers these days are built on top of Chromium, Chrome’s open-source version. Having choices is a good thing, right? Nobody wants to relive the time of almost complete Internet Explorer domination again. Supposedly today we have a lot of browsers to choose from – Google Chrome, Safari, Microsoft Edge, Firefox, Brave, Opera, Vivaldi, etc.
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