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What a deeply ignorant perspective. Too infuriating to ignore. Firefox users constitute <1% of my traffic. If you had any context for how widely browsers diverg

What a deeply ignorant perspective. Too infuriating to ignore. Firefox users constitute <1% of my traffic. If you had any context for how widely browsers diverged on webrtc features (especially video), you'd realize that ff support could easily add months and months to dev time. I'm sure it hasn't escaped your notice that apple makes no mention of safari in their announcement. my webrtc-based video conference app doesn't currently support ff and never will unless compatibility with chrome's implementation comes around. My manager would have me committed if I tried to pull that shit, and I'm already notorious for refusing to do things on principle. Suggesting that we don't support firefox because I'm lazy? No, vendors force us to choose, and if the alternative is NO video? Here on earth, where we're trying to cultivate a competitive advantage and survive as a business venture, that's an incredibly easy choice. edit: other commenters have made the point much more elegantly than I but I leave my words here as a testament to how infuriated I am at this condescending suggestion.

antipaul 5y ago
Just to note, Apple made no mention of Safari because then you are on an Apple platform, where you always have available the actual FaceTime app
unyttigfjelltol 5y ago
> Firefox users constitute <1% of my traffic. I configure FF to use a different user agent, as a security measure. It's a short hop from browsing the Internet with FF to disabiling browser identification.
- Thiez 5y ago
  For a long time I did the same because some websites would refuse to load when they thought you weren't running Chrome even though it would have worked just fine in FF.
- gbromios 5y ago
  Are you suggesting that ff traffic would be substantially higher if I were to account for users that were obfuscating their user agent header?
  - marcosdumay 5y ago
    And blocking your tracking data (that FF does out of the box)? Well, maybe. I don't know the usage patterns of your site. And from that interaction, I'm not sure you know either.
ivanche 5y ago
You made something that doesn't work in Firefox and you're now surprised that <1% of your traffic comes from Firefox?

antipaul 5y ago

Just to note, Apple made no mention of Safari because then you are on an Apple platform, where you always have available the actual FaceTime app

unyttigfjelltol 5y ago

> Firefox users constitute <1% of my traffic. I configure FF to use a different user agent, as a security measure. It's a short hop from browsing the Internet with FF to disabiling browser identification.

Thiez 5y ago
For a long time I did the same because some websites would refuse to load when they thought you weren't running Chrome even though it would have worked just fine in FF.
gbromios 5y ago
Are you suggesting that ff traffic would be substantially higher if I were to account for users that were obfuscating their user agent header?
- marcosdumay 5y ago
  And blocking your tracking data (that FF does out of the box)? Well, maybe. I don't know the usage patterns of your site. And from that interaction, I'm not sure you know either.

ivanche 5y ago

You made something that doesn't work in Firefox and you're now surprised that <1% of your traffic comes from Firefox?