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Spotify's account page is completely broken in Firefox
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#2For 2 weeks now, it's been impossible to login to Keybase on Firefox or Chrome. Only works in Safari: https://github.com/keybase/client/issues/24019
The entire web sucks. It's not just Firefox and it's not just Spotify.
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#3Google cloud platform is slow in Firefox and the layout is wrong (random horizontal bar covers the top of the webpage).
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#4Not completely broken, but I swear Google images purposely degrades their UX on Firefox on Android.
On Chrome Android if expand and then long press an image result I get the native menu that allows me to save the menu to my device.
On firefox android however, after expanding the image result I cannot long press the image. Instead, pressing the image shows a lighybox overlay and a button that links to the image result on the original webpage (and ofc it's always behind pinterest auth or something) and a "share" button that opens a popup that is certainly not the native Android share feature.
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#5For a variety of reasons, I only use Firefox. I recently dumped Spotify for Google music. The user experience was just not good enough.
Each morning, I would sit at my desk, and press play in the browser tab that Spotify was running in. Nothing would happen. No music, no loading indicator. Just nothing.
Sometimes I could get Spotify to work by reloading the tab, but most often I'd have to destroy the tab and create an entire new one. Then the site would work again. I never investigated why. I have a job to do, and I just want the music player to work. I'm not reporting a bug in a consumer music service.
I tolerated this for about a year. One day, the annoyance just reached a breaking point. I cancelled my subscription and signed up with Google music.
I sympathize with the Spotify developers. Delivering software is a hard job, and I know that from experience. Delivering it to multiple runtimes is even harder. But here's the thing:
Google music works without issue in Firefox, just like all their other products. To me, that is standard of quality for web applications. Anything else is not good enough, and people shouldn't tolerate it.
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#6Slack class and Facebook Messenger calls do not work on Firefox, which is furstrating. Google meet does work though, which is a breeze.
Re: Spotify's account page is completely broken in Firefox
#7Not completely broken, but I swear Google images purposely degrades their UX on Firefox on Android. On Chrome Android if expand and then long press an image result I get the native menu that allows me to save the menu to my device. On firefox android however, after expanding the image result I cannot long press the image. Instead, pressing the image shows a lighybox overlay and a button that links to the image result…
Google has a track record of serving different experiences to Firefox users, and it has nothing to do with compatibility, changing your user agent so you appear as Chrome shows pages that work just fine.
I'm convinced it's a deliberate action.
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#8A lot of things are broken I Firefox, even more so if you enable anti-tracking and install an ad-blocker.
The _main_ reason for this is that SDK providers (Google, Facebook, ...) give you sample code that will _break_ the entire page if blocked. Busy devs will simply copy paste that code and move on to the next project.
Firefox has a nice page explaining how to fix that but nobody seems to read it.
Chrome+safari is the new IE6.
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#9Slack class and Facebook Messenger calls do not work on Firefox, which is furstrating. Google meet does work though, which is a breeze.
Neither does zoom, Teams or Skype for business...
It's like conspiracy to keep Firefox users out of all meetings.
(Or it's their subpar webrtc support, who knows)
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#10It's getting harder to use Firefox and the free web. Damn shame for sure. I don't know what to do about it either.