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All the more reason to switch to Firefox
I would but Firefox is behind on many things including UI, speed, and other things. One of the main reasons is compatibility. A lot of things in html, css, and js don't yet work in Firefox but do on chromium based browsers. This is even clearly outlined by Mozilla in mdn web docs. The only thing with worse compatibility is safari (who could've seen that one coming). Also it seems like this is a Google thing so it probably only affects chrome and not chromium. I'm waiting for arc to be on Windows but if you want chrome without most of Google's spyware shit just use chromium. You don't need a chromium based browser if you can just use chromium itself.
Edit: you guys need to chill with the responses. There is so many that sync won't let me respond despite me writing paragraphs that address everything you guys are concerned about like saying everything works (all of webkit doesn't).
What “things in html, css, and js” does Firefox not support that prevents you from using it?
WebGPU has been the biggest one for me, but most sites don’t even use it.
Firefox has been slow to roll out some new CSS features. As an example I have been waiting a long time for the has() pseudo-class. TBF it’s behind a flag but the other browsers have had it for a while now. They were also the last browser to roll out container queries.
Although this doesn’t prevent me from using Firefox it does make me unable to use all the newest shiny CSS features when developing websites.
I love Firefox but the slow pace they release features is a bummer. I wish they had more resources to out towards new css featuress