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[-] ionaru@feddit.nl 16 points 1 year ago

Unpopular opinion, brace yourselves.

As a web developer, I would love to root for Firefox but they've made some really odd decisions regarding the implementation of web standards (which are published on the Mozilla MDN site, oddly enough), async/defer script loading order for example. Firefox is also often multiple years late with implementing new tech, being surpassed by Chromium and even Safari most of the time.

While I love the non-profit style of Mozilla and think competition in the browser space is a good thing. The reality is just that their browser lags behind the other two. Firefox is a large part of the reason polyfills are still used in this world of evergreen browsers, and requires multi-browser testing/tweaking even though I exclusively follow the standards written on the MDN website...

[-] CrateDane@feddit.dk 26 points 1 year ago

Firefox is behind in some areas, but ahead in others - eg. privacy/tracking.

[-] locness3@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago

So not the things that benefit website owners

[-] tartarsauce@lemmy.fmhy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

Yeah. Instead, the things that benefit users

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