Tell HN: Firefox is being slowly deprecated by the industry

13•gurjeet•1h ago

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

Comments

RJ000•1h ago

Who benefits from terminating service like this?

add-sub-mul-div•30m ago

In one of these cases Apple, who has a competing browser that they make tens of billions of dollars with by selling the traffic to Google. It's the top of the surveillance capitalism funnel.

gonzalohm•17m ago

Surely they are not benefiting if people don't use their website because their browser is not supported

Bender•1h ago

When companies or government offices tell me to use another browser I tell them I can not, dont have administrative access and make them input all the data for me.

itake•3m ago

what should cost you about 15s of your time ends up costing you 1+ hour of your time.

p_ing•1h 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.

gurjeet•37m ago

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

ggm•1h ago

What happens if you configure your browser string to lie about your software origins and compatibility?

gurjeet•42m ago

That's a great suggestion! I used the 'User-Agent Switcher' add-on [1] and that seems to have done the trick for both the websites I reported above. (edit: I chose the option 'Windows / Chrome 146' in the add-on's UI).

As someone else said here, we should probably chalk it up to laziness on developers' part; maybe there's more to it, but I'll take that explanation and move on :-)

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/uaswitcher/

cozzyd•57m ago

You would think AlmaLinux would be a supported distribution (and that obviously defaults to Firefox).

I only use Chrome for Microsoft Teams there NASA insists on using (Teams doesn't seem to detect my camera in Firefox... And the teams for Linux app was total trash when I tried it, maybe it's better now if it still exists.). Is there a way to stop it's obnoxious trying to be the default browser every time?

UltraSane•4m ago

Firefox + uBlock Origin is the only way the modern web is still usable.

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