I know I can spoof my useragent, it’s just ridiculous that such a massive app doesn’t support an equally massive browser.
- MangoPenguin ( @MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English29•6 months ago
I imagine the overlap of people who use Snapchat and people who use Firefox is pretty small, they probably see such a small amount of users with Firefox and they just decided not to support it.
- kia ( @kia@lemmy.ca ) English35•6 months ago
In this day and age it’s more work to explicitly not support a browser than it is to support it…
- Otter ( @otter@lemmy.ca ) English8•6 months ago
Another side I haven’t seen mentioned
It might be easier to track users in Chrome. If even a few users open it in chrome instead of Firefox, that’s a benefit for them
- kia ( @kia@lemmy.ca ) English2•6 months ago
Yeah, I’m sure Chrome works well with Google Analytics tools which seem to be on every site nowadays…
- Truck_kun ( @Truck_kun@beehaw.org ) English1•6 months ago
Toggle to the unsupported browser tab: https://www.pge.com/en/accessibility/supported-browsers.html
I can’t imagine what possible decision led to this for a utility company used by millions.
- thingsiplay ( @thingsiplay@beehaw.org ) 10•6 months ago
I imagine the overlap of people who use Snapchat and people who use Firefox is pretty small
I argue it's 0, as it does not work.
It’s a joke, I know what you are meaning; you meant using both separately.
- sunzu ( @sunzu@kbin.run ) 2•6 months ago
Even if true, do you support this funnel approach?
yeah, snapchat is far from open source and privacy respecting 😂
- Vincent ( @Vincent@feddit.nl ) 18•6 months ago
As @denschub@schub.social always emphasises: make sure to file a report at https://webcompat.com!
We ask everyone to file their reports, because all reports are really useful. Even if we don’t respond to every single thing you report, it’s a signal that we’re processing in many different ways. (…) please, keep reporting all issues you see, because every single blip counts!
https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1de7bu1/comment/l8ghtr2/
never knew about this but I’m definitely going to start using it
- Dennis Schubert ( @denschub@mastodon.schub.social ) 5•6 months ago
@Vincent @potentiallynotfelix I mean, yeah, but we know about Snapchat. https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/107613
- AlexWIWA ( @AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml ) English16•6 months ago
I didn’t even know that there was a Snapchat for web
- catastrophicblues ( @catastrophicblues@lemmy.ca ) 2•6 months ago
I’m just surprised people still use it.
- Mr. Satan ( @mr_satan@monyet.cc ) 12•6 months ago
Snapchat has a web client? :o
you can’t snap, can only messageedit: im wrong you can snap now.- lseif ( @lseif@sopuli.xyz ) 3•6 months ago
doesnt that kind of defeat the point ?
- Mr. Satan ( @mr_satan@monyet.cc ) 5•6 months ago
Dunno never saw the appeal anyway
- 0x2d ( @0x2d@lemmy.ml ) 12•6 months ago
based sway user
- Canadian_Cabinet ( @Canadian_Cabinet@lemmy.ca ) 11•6 months ago
How can you tell? Looks like either i3 or sway, and that’s coming from another sway user lol
i3 you mean…
- YⓄ乙 ( @yoz@aussie.zone ) English11•6 months ago
Well keep logging in via firefox. Send them a message
- thingsiplay ( @thingsiplay@beehaw.org ) 10•6 months ago
Can you get away with a change of the “User Agent”?Edit (: Reading is hard. I only read the title and looked at the screenshot, without reading the body text of the post. So my question is answered. Sorry for wasting time.) - jbk ( @jbk@discuss.tchncs.de ) 10•6 months ago
doesn’t it utilize some fancy camera APIs or whatever? last time I tried it on firefox with a spoofed user agent there were errors in the console
yeah it just won’t let me in on firefox at all, i had to use chr*mium 🤮 in a vm to get in
- refalo ( @refalo@programming.dev ) 4•6 months ago
holy shit stop using snapchat
- The Cuuuuube ( @Cube6392@beehaw.org ) English1•6 months ago
That’s the real story here. That someone’s still using Snapchat in 2024
- MystikIncarnate ( @MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca ) English7•6 months ago
I just want to say, this is less bad than websites requiring that you use internet explorer.
Those were dark days.
It’s just slightly less bad cause it requires a chromium based browser
- MystikIncarnate ( @MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca ) English2•6 months ago
Oh yeah, I’m not saying it’s good, just less bad.
Now instead of being crammed into a single option, you get the “choice” of several (probably equally bad) options.
Honestly, everything should just conform to standards, and it’s up to the browser to support those standards. If your browser doesn’t support it, well, good luck.
Not this bullshit of “your browser isn’t compatible with this website”. Fuck you and the horse you rode in on.
- refalo ( @refalo@programming.dev ) 6•6 months ago
- Nobilmantis ( @Nobilmantis@feddit.it ) 5•6 months ago
On desktop (which is what the website in question is mostly loaded in) is 6,6%. Still isnt huge but definitely more significant.
- neomachino ( @neomachino@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 4•6 months ago
Wow Firefox just barely beats out Samsung internet and opera???
I knew chrome had the majority but I didn’t know even edge was above Firefox in market share.
There’s like 30 people at the company I work for. 8 of them use Firefox only, about 10 of them use Firefox half of the time when chrome breaks or hogs every resource possible.
- The Cuuuuube ( @Cube6392@beehaw.org ) English1•6 months ago
REMINDER: These market share figures are self reported based on browser user agents. For over a decade now, Firefox requires you to opt into this reporting. Its true that Firefox has been slipping in market share, and that things can be rather gloomy, but they’re not as doomed as its widely reported. The big driver of declining market share for Firefox these days is CTOs telling their engineering directors to not check Firefox compatibility because they perceive it as wasted time for 6.6% of people. The easiest way to combat Google Chrome’s hegemony is to show friends and family that actually most of the internet works on Firefox despite what you’ve been told, and that also Firefox isn’t somehow outdated
But it’s the fourth most popular browser according to your chart. Considering there’s probably 2 billion browser users, that’s something in the ballpark of 40 million users. 20 if you say 1 billion.
- DeaDvey ( @DeaDvey@lemmy.ml ) 4•6 months ago
Use a user agent switcher, works for me.