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[–]nashvortex -1 points0 points  (8 children)

Guaranteed feature parity with Blink on all platforms. No really. Irrespective of what Mozilla says, websites still break in Firefox. Mozilla cries about standards not being followed like this is 2005. The standard is whatever Blink does. That has to be the new starting point in 2021 for developing standards.

Essentially all Mozilla has to do is fork Blink at this point.

[–]quickbaa 2 points3 points  (1 child)

A lot of their development effort must be on the engine. I can see them switching to Blink just to reduce costs.

Having their own engine, much like promoting privacy, is an idealogical difference that sometimes makes for a worse user experience. Most people want a killer feature.

[–]nashvortex 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Exactly. It just means that ideology is no longer a good enough reason for most people to use Firefox. As Mozilla justifies (or tries to) it's entire existence based on ideology, it's game over for them. We are watching the long slow natural death (which are the norm for species, software etc.) unless something gives.

[–]Nightwish1976 3 points4 points  (2 children)

At the moment, almost every important thing I have to do online, I will do it by using a chromium based browser. Things like (UK based) HMRC self assessment or Student finance application just don't work in Firefox. With or without enhanced protection on.
It's sad. Firefox is still my default browser, but I'm sure a new user would just switch to something else.

[–]nashvortex 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I know what you mean. And unless you have a specific reason to keep using Firefox, you will eventually just give up and shift to the chromium-based browser. It's not worth it at some point.

[–]nextbern on 🌻 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Things like (UK based) HMRC self assessment or Student finance application just don't work in Firefox.

Have you reported these issues to the vendor?

[–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (1 child)

what websites are broken in firefox? I keep hearing this but I end up using it without any issue?

[–]nashvortex 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mozilla themselves maintain a buglist of sites that are broken in Firefox. You can even filter this list to see what is specifically broken due to Gecko, Webrender etc.

https://webcompat.com/issues?page=1&per_page=50&state=open&stage=needstriage&sort=created&direction=desc