Visit about:compat in your firefox. I find it insane that these exist.

Edit: I’ve learned that this is part of the webcompat system addon developed by Mozilla and other contributors. I see why this is beneficial default behavior, since FF has no chance of getting enough market share to matter more if things are broken.

However, this behavior is too intrusive for my taste. For example this injection: https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/8a4afb4d34f8/browser/extensions/webcompat/injections/js/bug1472075-bankofamerica.com-ua-change.js is basically just to silence annoying user reports.

Also, Every site FF pretends to be a different UA on is artificially reducing FF market share data.

  • Vik@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    3 months ago

    they’re trying to ensure an acceptable UX with their browser.

    I suppose the root of the issue is developers specifically targeting and testing on chrome.

    I don’t understand how this would make Firefox look bad unless you’re pointing at the dire browser share situation.