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Firefox 123 is out with broken site reporting tool (www.ghacks.net)
submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] TheGrandNagus 130 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Reads headline: well why the hell did they release it then?!

Reads article: ohhhhhh. That headline is trash.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Clickbait! If it said “Firefox 123 is out with a new tool for reporting broken websites to Mozilla”, most users would scroll past…

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

It should say "broken site" tool.

I'm sure the quotes were left of intentionally.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

lmao same. I read the headline and went "lmao get it together Mozilla"

[–] Tehhund 82 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I read that as "the tool to report websites is broken."

[–] M137 37 points 4 months ago

Same, it's badly worded. It should be "tool to report broken websites".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Also

[–] [email protected] 42 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Mozilla introduces a new website compatibility report tool in Firefox that Firefox users may use to report broken sites to the organization.

Nice, I assume this is to go with their recent efforts to call out monopolistic/ anticompetitive behavior?

Now on the rare occasion I need to open up Chrome, I'm going to take a moment to file a report. From memory, it's been a problem with certain google docs authentication steps, and a federal government finance site.

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends 6 points 4 months ago

I'm all for this!

This is sort of what the Google reports were trying to do as well, provide feedback on shitty websites to fix their BS for the users. Ignoring some of the google-preferred solutions, a lot of the reporting metrics is valid. Make your site accessible. Don't load your site with 2megs of JS. Make sure the page loads quickly.

[–] pycorax 2 points 4 months ago

Time to report all those shitty government websites.