My SO just had something similar pop up yesterday. She was running into weird errors on her Chromebook, so I had her change her user agent to Chrome on Windows. Everything magically worked. Hmm…
What is the perceived problem, then? 99% of sites these days are all built with kits that support Firefox just as well as Chromium, the dev choice to not support or intentionally lock out Firefox is either just laziness (not wanting to deal with any potential problems or not given enough time to run full Firefox user tests) or incentive driven (middle manager has word from high manager that they can’t support firefox because highest manager makes bank from Chromium).
The technical limitation isn’t actually there in the modern web, it’s almost always a manufactured limitation. I think I’ve only ever encountered a single website that didn’t actually technically work on Firefox, and that was Weather Underground. Which they ended up fixing after 3 months or so.
Doesn’t that sound like a good description of a problem?
I think I’ve only ever encountered a single website that didn’t actually technically work on Firefox[…]
There’s gonna be a hell of a lot more of them, buddy. You’re gonna have to hang your cat on your balcony to get an estimate of future weather if you want to avoid using one of them how-are-these-even browsers.
Imagine yourself as a homosexual man in Iran (should be easy). Would you say that hiding that big part of you from everyone and even go as far as marrying a woman you don’t even like just not to arouse suspicion makes the problem disappear? Just the fact that you need to spoof your useragent to view a shitty website, the developer of which would (should) die under a car one day 🤞, is a solid proof that you will soon be that homosexual man in Iran.
changes useragent to Chrome. Everything works perfectly on the site
Hmm. Interesting.
This is actually exactly how user agents evolved.
Chrome pretends to be safari.
IE pretends to be Netscape.
Safari pretends to be Firefox.
All popular browsers pretend to be at least one other browser for compatibility.
https://humanwhocodes.com/blog/2010/01/12/history-of-the-user-agent-string/
So it’s kind of like back in the Netscape days.
Men are men, women are men, boys are men, and little girls are FBI agents.
Stroking intensifies
My SO just had something similar pop up yesterday. She was running into weird errors on her Chromebook, so I had her change her user agent to Chrome on Windows. Everything magically worked. Hmm…
Which proves that M$ Teams definitely isn’t heaven, because some things actually don’t work with Firefox, as I recall.
Last time I tried to log in it said something about cookies and I had to use chrome.
that’s your own fault for using teams though
also they don’t count since Microsoft changes all links to force open in Edge and there’s nothing you can do about it.
$ cat firefox.exe > edge.exedoesn’t work?enoent
Not like I had a choice
You will use your corporate vendor lock-in garbage software and you will LIKE IT! THATS AN ORDER!!
I don’t really care what happens on my work machine tbh. I’ll use whatever they set to default.
Or, that doesn’t work in Firefox either.
Calls don’t work.
I does video meetings perfectly well. But not calls. And if you never used Teams, just try to guess the difference.
Doesn’t solve the problem tho, which makes editing the useragent nothing but a temporary solution not worth being smartass-megamind about
What is the perceived problem, then? 99% of sites these days are all built with kits that support Firefox just as well as Chromium, the dev choice to not support or intentionally lock out Firefox is either just laziness (not wanting to deal with any potential problems or not given enough time to run full Firefox user tests) or incentive driven (middle manager has word from high manager that they can’t support firefox because highest manager makes bank from Chromium).
The technical limitation isn’t actually there in the modern web, it’s almost always a manufactured limitation. I think I’ve only ever encountered a single website that didn’t actually technically work on Firefox, and that was Weather Underground. Which they ended up fixing after 3 months or so.
Make sure to read this thoroughly this time.
Doesn’t that sound like a good description of a problem?
There’s gonna be a hell of a lot more of them, buddy. You’re gonna have to hang your cat on your balcony to get an estimate of future weather if you want to avoid using one of them how-are-these-even browsers.
Imagine yourself as a homosexual man in Iran (should be easy). Would you say that hiding that big part of you from everyone and even go as far as marrying a woman you don’t even like just not to arouse suspicion makes the problem disappear? Just the fact that you need to spoof your useragent to view a shitty website, the developer of which would (should) die under a car one day 🤞, is a solid proof that you will soon be that homosexual man in Iran.
Bro are you seriously comparing using a vendor locked web browser to being stoned for being gay in a conservative religious country 🤣🤣🤣
Aren’t you?
…no.
Bummer