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changes useragent to Chrome. Everything works perfectly on the site
Hmm. Interesting.
Stroking intensifies
My SO just had something similar pop up yesterday. She was running into weird errors on her Chromebook, so I had her change her user agent to Chrome on Windows. Everything magically worked. Hmm…
Doesn’t solve the problem tho, which makes editing the useragent nothing but a temporary solution not worth being smartass-megamind about
What is the perceived problem, then? 99% of sites these days are all built with kits that support Firefox just as well as Chromium, the dev choice to not support or intentionally lock out Firefox is either just laziness (not wanting to deal with any potential problems or not given enough time to run full Firefox user tests) or incentive driven (middle manager has word from high manager that they can’t support firefox because highest manager makes bank from Chromium).
The technical limitation isn’t actually there in the modern web, it’s almost always a manufactured limitation. I think I’ve only ever encountered a single website that didn’t actually technically work on Firefox, and that was Weather Underground. Which they ended up fixing after 3 months or so.
What is the perceived problem, then?
Make sure to read this thoroughly this time.
[…]it’s almost always a manufactured limitation.
Doesn’t that sound like a good description of a problem?
I think I’ve only ever encountered a single website that didn’t actually technically work on Firefox[…]
There’s gonna be a hell of a lot more of them, buddy. You’re gonna have to hang your cat on your balcony to get an estimate of future weather if you want to avoid using one of them how-are-these-even browsers.
Imagine yourself as a homosexual man in Iran (should be easy). Would you say that hiding that big part of you from everyone and even go as far as marrying a woman you don’t even like just not to arouse suspicion makes the problem disappear? Just the fact that you need to spoof your useragent to view a shitty website, the developer of which would (should) die under a car one day 🤞, is a solid proof that you will soon be that homosexual man in Iran.
Bro are you seriously comparing using a vendor locked web browser to being stoned for being gay in a conservative religious country 🤣🤣🤣
Aren’t you?
…no.
Bummer
“It seems you have an ad blocker enabled. In order the enjoy the full benefits of heaven, please disable it and accept our cookies”
bro who is selling ads in heaven
Google Adsense has a further reach that you think
“Best viewed with Netscape navigator”
The image embed doesn’t work. Lemmy supports embedding media only if HTTPS is used. This website is HTTP.
I already fixed it, but I didn’t know that! That’s really cool!
You can also embed images inside links, by the way (click the button):
[](https://getfirefox.com)Also if say you have image/animation/audio/video link without extension (e.g.: .jpg), you can fool Lemmy using a fragment identifier at the end of URL
#.jpgwhich would usually be used to jump to the fragment id in document. e.g.:https://example.org/image#.jpgWowzers that’s fancy, I’ll have to save that for the future
it’s not just lemmy; HTTPS websites aren’t allowed to serve HTTP content
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Mixed_contentSorry, my bad. And thanks for the info.
No worries, I find the intricacies of protocols like this super interesting 😊
Vatican website
Hell runs on Linux so it never freezes.
It all makes so much sense now haha!
Hell only supports IE. You hang out in limbo with all the cool kids.
