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Is there a reason why? Less funding? Web devs don't make the pages Firefox friendly? Since the user base is smaller, they just don't care?

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[โ€“] CyberSyndicalist@hexbear.net 24 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Web devs don't make the pages Firefox friendly? Since the user base is smaller, they just don't care?

correct

also in the case of Google controlled websites the errors are often deliberately introduced to sabotage firefox

[โ€“] Confidant6198@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Wait, what? Do you have a source on this?

[โ€“] homicidalrobot@lemm.ee 26 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Didn't that turn out to be an issue related to adblockers?

[โ€“] Sethayy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago

Adblockers existed so google took it out on all of Firefox, the collateral being a win-win to their monopoly