Tell HN: Stripe Dashboard no longer supports Firefox

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Post by davidpolberger » Mon, Sep 09, 2024, 12:24 PM UTC

I was just in touch with Stripe support, and they confirmed that Firefox is no longer a supported browser. That means that issues that can only be reproduced on Firefox will no longer be fixed.

Obviously, Firefox's market share isn't what it used to be. However, Stripe has always cultivated an image of being developer-friendly, and Firefox remains popular with developers. Is not supporting Firefox a reasonable position for Stripe (and other sites popular with developers) to take?

Discuss.

Re: Tell HN: Stripe Dashboard no longer supports Firefox

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Sep 09, 2024, 12:47 PM UTC

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Re: Tell HN: Stripe Dashboard no longer supports Firefox

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Post by Yizahi » Mon, Sep 09, 2024, 12:59 PM UTC

The natural consequence of chromewashing. If people pretend that Chrome clones are a "competitors" or viable "alternatives" it's no wonder that the only real alternative (on Windows) loses marketshare and is slowly deprecated because not many people speak out. It would be a "fun" time if FF ever dies, new IE6.0 situation but worse.

Re: Tell HN: Stripe Dashboard no longer supports Firefox

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Post by KingOfCoders » Mon, Sep 09, 2024, 1:00 PM UTC

Yizahi wrote: post #3

The natural consequence of chromewashing. If people pretend that Chrome clones are a "competitors" or viable "alternatives" it's no wonder that the only real alternative (on Windows) loses marketshare and is slowly deprecated because not many people speak out. It would be a "fun" time if FF ever dies, new IE6.0 situation but worse.

The natural consequences of Mozilla spending money on everything except on creating a the best browser in the world and working on marketshare (written in Firefox).

Re: Tell HN: Stripe Dashboard no longer supports Firefox

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Post by Yizahi » Mon, Sep 09, 2024, 1:03 PM UTC

KingOfCoders wrote: post #4

Yizahi wrote: post #3

The natural consequence of chromewashing. If people pretend that Chrome clones are a "competitors" or viable "alternatives" it's no wonder that the only real alternative (on Windows) loses marketshare and is slowly deprecated because not many people speak out. It would be a "fun" time if FF ever dies, new IE6.0 situation but worse.

The natural consequences of Mozilla spending money on everything except on creating a the best browser in the world and working on marketshare (written in Firefox).

I'm still mad at Mozilla for all their dumb decisions and arrogant behavior (case in point - actual FF devs responses on Reddit to the backlash against "uglybar", when they have radically chopped down functionality and UX of the old address bar, saying stuff that people who want sane UI are using it wrong and shifting blame in general).

Re: Tell HN: Stripe Dashboard no longer supports Firefox

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Post by sergiotapia » Mon, Sep 09, 2024, 1:22 PM UTC

I don't think anyone can judge unless they have actual usage % of Firefox for the stripe properties. If only 0.1% use Firefox then it's a no brainer right? might as well support gopher. unfortunately firefox dropped the ball so hard this past decade. all those distractions came back with a vengeance.

Re: Tell HN: Stripe Dashboard no longer supports Firefox

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Post by sofixa » Mon, Sep 09, 2024, 1:37 PM UTC

Yizahi wrote: post #3

The natural consequence of chromewashing. If people pretend that Chrome clones are a "competitors" or viable "alternatives" it's no wonder that the only real alternative (on Windows) loses marketshare and is slowly deprecated because not many people speak out. It would be a "fun" time if FF ever dies, new IE6.0 situation but worse.

> It would be a "fun" time if FF ever dies, new IE6.0 situation but worse

How would it be worse? Chromium is Open Source, and anyone can fork it if Google go too far.

IE6.0 was entirely proprietary, and nobody could do absolutely anything if Microsoft went too far.