Visit about:compat in your firefox. I find it insane that these exist.

Edit: I’ve learned that this is part of the webcompat system addon developed by Mozilla and other contributors. I see why this is beneficial default behavior, since FF has no chance of getting enough market share to matter more if things are broken.

However, this behavior is too intrusive for my taste. For example this injection: https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/8a4afb4d34f8/browser/extensions/webcompat/injections/js/bug1472075-bankofamerica.com-ua-change.js is basically just to silence annoying user reports.

Also, Every site FF pretends to be a different UA on is artificially reducing FF market share data.

  • mvirts@lemmy.worldOP
    215·
    3 months ago

    You’re probably right. I just want what’s advertised: software that uses web standards to interact with servers on my behalf. Idk where this feature lands on that scale. This seems like a pre-browser-extension sort of feature that is obsolete now.

    • d0ntpan1c@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      11·
      3 months ago

      So the site should just… Not work in firefox then?

      A lot of the sites in the about:compat block or don’t work in Firefox because the sites don’t follow web standards

        • bloodfart@lemmy.ml
          11·
          3 months ago

          Don’t look too far into android if the browser having a bunch of compatibility exceptions baked in makes you squeamish.