alt.hn

5/14/2026 at 3:33:16 PM

Safari and Firefox change how big sites render based on the domain

 https://denodell.com/blog/browsers-treat-big-sites-differently

by cdrnsf

5/14/2026 at 8:25:42 PM

I've seen similar issues simply by using Linux as my main desktop... some sites just won't work because of it, or seem to filter out "Linux" in the user agent. Which kinda sucks.

by tracker1

5/14/2026 at 9:32:25 PM

Could you give an example? I've been working with a Linux desktop since 2009 and everything seems to work.

by pmontra

5/15/2026 at 1:33:21 AM

Ditto. The only thing I can remember of is Apple Maps. They used to allow only Windows or something? But they relented eventually.

by abrowne

5/14/2026 at 9:21:11 PM

This is one of the reasons why all of my browsers identify as a recent Chrome version. All of those problems just up and disappear. I started doing that when Google claimed (lied) that some of their products no longer support Firefox and would block me from accessing right up until my browser identified itself as Chrome. No bugs, no issues.

by sli

5/15/2026 at 2:29:04 AM

If market competition law wasn't reduced to dead ink, lying about your competitor's product, or abusing your dominance in one market to dominate another market, would at minimum carry painful fines.

by like_any_other

5/15/2026 at 8:41:01 AM

I agree that lying should be illegal, but “domination” is vague. One could argue (and I would agree) that there’s nothing wrong with dominance if it comes down to just offering a superior product.

And why should the cross-market context be treated differently?

by piekvorst

5/14/2026 at 9:34:49 PM

Web services could have at least one developer using Firefox and another one using Safari. I'm the one with Firefox for my customers. Their web apps work with at least Chrome and Firefox. Safari is on them, if they have a Mac. Nobody ever complained.

by pmontra

5/14/2026 at 4:45:23 PM

If Safari and Firefox had the exact same lists of sites and fixes I might agree, but they don't.

by phillipseamore

5/14/2026 at 3:52:42 PM

Just ditch Chrome and then the website owners see shrinking traffic.

by robthebrew

5/15/2026 at 9:43:15 AM

This is the exact same situation that got Microsoft tied up in endless antitrust investigations 30 years ago. Of course that was back when the US still had a government rather than a service bureau for billionaires.

by pseudohadamard

5/14/2026 at 11:19:13 PM

and how, pray tell, might we convince the masses to do this?

by cybercatgurrl

5/14/2026 at 11:45:39 PM

Mindcontrol, space lazers, weather machines, genetically engineer actual firefoxes. Just a few ideas worth considering.

by AuthAuth

5/15/2026 at 12:16:10 AM

I'll have my ai agent get on this right away

by halJordan