HACKER Q&A
📣 SamuelAdams

Website / GitHub for shaming websites that do not work in Firefox?


Is there a list similar to Dumb Password Rules[1], but for websites that do not work in Firefox? The idea is to publicly shame companies for not testing their software across common browsers.

Live example:

Open Firefox 69 on Windows 10 1803+.

Set the web browser width to 1250+ pixels.

Open https://www.lmcu.org

Click "Online Banking Login"

Observe the orange "Login" buttons are pushed down slightly.

[1]: https://github.com/dumb-password-rules/dumb-password-rules


  👤 codingdave Accepted Answer ✓
> buttons are pushed down slightly.

When I worked in banking, we'd get similar complaints about things of exactly as much importance as that complaint. We even frequently had people who would email such things directly to our CIO, and he would come downstairs and ask us about it. And we'd say, "Yep, that is a legit problem. Do you want us to drop all the mission-critical priorities to fix it?" He'd say, "No.", and go back to his office.

By all means, send them a bug report. But shaming a company because your bug report doesn't become their #1 priority? No thanks.


👤 badrabbit
Oh please there are so many offenders. Even IT vendors that charge a fortune for their product explicitly state they only support Chrome. What a sham, I wish DOJ would at least regulate Chrome so that it does not implement interfaces that give it a unique advantage to further dominate or lock-down users. Clearly anti-competitive.

A lot of times Google is to blame,I can understand how some people simply lack resources to support multiple browsers.


👤 cuddlybacon
It's not just Firefox. I notice sites not working on Safari (both mobile and desktop). I remember it happening with Edge as well when I tried it. It seems that Chrome is the new IE these days.

The most common symptom I see is buttons that don't do anything when clicked.


👤 orf
Yes, it's built right into firefox. Press the `...` in the URL bar and select "Report site issue", or visit:

https://webcompat.com/issues/new


👤 vntok
Have a look at this graph [1], Firefox is definitely not a "common" browser today in most countries; Chrome, Safari and their many siblings are. Unless your company's website is only targeting a country where Firefox somehow leads the pack, your company would be much better served spending precious developer time on supporting Chrome+Safari+UC Browser (probably the 3rd most popular browser in the world?).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_browser#/media/File:Web_br...


👤 olliej
There are also frequently sites that only work in Chrome.

Because they’re now functionally IE


👤 sp332
I like the idea, but I'm not seeing that particular example. FF 71 (Nightly) on Win10: https://imgur.com/a/Ux5QkZV


👤 soulchild37
If you need to use their service more than they need you, they won't care. Best course of action is to switch to another bank that care about UI.

👤 gtirloni
Similar to SSL Server Test[0]? I like the idea.

https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest


👤 notjustanymike
Our users are 70% chrome, 20% Safari, 3% Samsung browser, and then the rest. Good luck shaming our site, it'll affect our priorities about 2%.

👤 boring_twenties
Wow, I use lmcu as well and never noticed that. Of course, now I can't unsee it.

👤 drannex
I love this concept. Start it.